How about yo moma's a hoe?
Can we still say that?
I admit, I thought of the N word once, but I never, never, ever, said it. Not even one time.
Posted on 02/06/2006 7:17:31 AM PST by LouAvul
The article is from a source that cannot be quoted. But it is about Al Pimpton demanding an apology from "Boondocks" cartoon which depicted MLKing as using the "N" word.
(The Left fights the Left?)
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
When do the riots break out? That cartoon offends someone.
Yahoo can be posted.
but USA Today can't.
How about yo moma's a hoe?
Can we still say that?
I admit, I thought of the N word once, but I never, never, ever, said it. Not even one time.
I think you posted it correctly, but you can paraphrase a story to help Freepers understand what's going on in it. I went to check this one out, but lots of people might not.
Ironic that this fool claims offense at the depiction of MLK when the Boondocks was trying to uphold the true spirit of the Civil Rights movement.
I saw this episode, and the point was that no-one, not the mainstream black culture of hip-hop and BET, not the mainstream white culture that holds MLK as a sort of American Ghandi; no-one seems to remember the "true" Dr. King.
Boondocks offends me most every day. I don't riot. I don't buy the newspaper and tell their sales staff this whenever they solicit me.
You are being rather niggardly in your post in describing just what is important and worthy of attention in the article you read.
Give us a complete overview and some details - that should suffice.
It's just a word. Like the muslims have turned a couple of cartoons in to a major thing, if blacks would have just gone about their business and not made a big deal, it would have gone away. You will always have idiots on every side of an argument. Blacks made this little item into a major deal, and advanced the deeds and thoughts of their enemies.
In the last 5 years, I have heard the "N" word far more often said by black people than all other races combined. If this word was ever made illegal to speak, the biggest outcry would be from blacks. Go figure.
The show made national headlines recently when Al Sharpton accused McGruder of “desecrating” the name of late civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. The episode in question aired one day before the U.S. recognized &Martin Luther King Day. Return of the King saw the late leader come out of a 30 year coma right before the 2000 presidential election. King also gave a fiery speech which included several uses of “the ‘n’ word.” "Cartoon Network must apologize and also commit to pulling episodes that desecrate black historic figures," Sharpton said in a statement. "We are totally offended by the continuous use of the N-word." Hiphopdx.com
I am 67 and the only time I have heard the N word since I became an adult was one black talking to or about another black!
Magruder will have to go back to offending only white people.
In his defense, it seems like cartoons are becoming the last refuge of free speech.
Guess it all depends on who is defining the word and the relative importance or significance they attach to it based on their frame of reference.
This thread was only worth about 3 or 4 posts anyway - Boondocks has been pushing the edges of the envelope ever since it was first published.
Soon we will told there are words that sound like the unacceptable words and that they shouldn't be used either.
But a few weeks past, I made at least 1 FReeper angry becasue I had refered to rapper Kayne West (over his absurd &self-centered statements) as "S*mbo".
I guess it was really bad for me to say that even though I was not trying to be racist at all.
Still, it means that even calling someone a name of an African-American fictional character can be offensive in quite a few ways.
I heard it on SNL... referring to a black, breakfast cereal.
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