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To: foghornleghorn

Exactly. Nagin's "tar baby" displeasure reminds me of the furor created when a white council member used the word "niggardly" (which means cheap, stingy or miserly) in a meeting other council members, some of whom were black, and who didn't know what the word meant, and tried to have the white person kicked out of his office.


7 posted on 01/18/2006 12:54:59 PM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: BushMeister

The same thing happened to me at work. I said something about being niggardly in a meeting and everyone stared at me like I had sprouted horns. It took dictionary.com to convince them that I wasn't being racist. Even after that my boss brought me into his office and said that I still might be in trouble and that from now on I ought to avoid using words that sound even close to anything racist. Which was kinda funny because not a week later I heard some people shouting something across office referring to someone as "that cracker".


18 posted on 01/18/2006 1:31:59 PM PST by fmonkey
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