Posted on 08/22/2006 5:44:40 AM PDT by areafiftyone
There's no place for racism in the Party of Lincoln, civil rights, and the abolition of slavery--i.e. the Republican Party.
Racists can find plenty of room in the Democrat Party--the party of segregation, racism, slavery, bigotry, tyrrany, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan!
I'm on the recieving end sometimes as well... You may like some of these I found...
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK CITY WHEN...
* You think Central Park is "nature."
* You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
* You've been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.
* You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.
* You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.
* You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
* Going to Brooklyn is considered a "road trip."
* America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.
* You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
* You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.
* Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
* $50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
* Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean, your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.
* You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that it means Manhattan.
* You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.
* You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
* You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
* Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
* The subway makes sense.
* The subway should never be called anything prissy, like the Metro.
* You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
* You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.
* You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple."
* Your door has more than three locks.
* You go to a hockey game for the fighting. In the stands. To participate.
* Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.
* The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
* You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
* You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard. You complain about having to mow it.
* You are a skee-ball juggernaut.
* You consider Westchester "Upstate."
* You cried the day Mayor Ed Koch took over for Judge Wapner.
* You run when you see a flashing "Do Not Walk" sign at the intersection.
The press is claiming that it must be a racial slur because it is an insult in the Ladino dialect of his Sephardic jewish mother.
I am pointing out that the press is wrong as usual and that the word has no racial connotation in Ladino.
Allen says it was not a racial comment, and the word's own background shows that it is not a racial comment.
bingo.
LOL Those are so true it's scary!
My favorite has to be, "You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression" LOL!
These macaques have no fear of people and like to steal food from unsuspecting people, beg for food from people who are eating, follow pedestrians around, reach in their pockets to take shiny things like coins that appeal to them, and generally make themselves a nuisance.
Calling someone a "macaca" in Ladino is about as racially charged as calling someone a "pitbull" - the epithet applies to a perceived behavior in an individual, and not to their race.
That is me to a tee. Plus I do have 20 menus next to my phone. LOL Pizza mostly. My favorite food.
I call my cats "little monkey boys" when they are troublesome and pesky, which is often.
Did you see that the wikipedia definition of macaca as a slur only dates from 17Aug06?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaca_%28slur%29
Hit the history tab and select [earliest].
> he can apparently use French <
In other words:
John Forbes Kahn/Kerry speaks French --> Good! Shows he's a worldly sophisticate.
George Felix Allen speaks French --> Bad! Shows he's a redneck.
how he thinks he used it is the most relevant thing there is. his campaign has said it was a mix up of mohawk and caca. now, that has been going on for a few days. You think Allen wouldn't correct that if it were wrong?
check your mail...
Good heavens Mrs. Meade. Remember yourself.
Incorrect.
The media has claimed it is a slur based on etymology. The true etymology of the word shows that it is not a racial slur.
99.9999% of Americans have never heard the word "macaca" it has no meaning for them and as far as they are concerned it is a nonsense word, not a slur. It could well be a slip of the tongue for "mohawk" or something on Allen's part - it could also be Allen unconsciously using a word that his mother used to use that he never realized was a real word.
It only becomes a slur in the public mind when the press succeeds in convincing people that it is a real word and a slur at that.
What that has to do with the use of the Ladino word "macaca" in the Ladino language remains a mystery.
Allen did not say "macaque."
Had he intended to use Mohawk, but garbled it, why does he think being called a Mohawk is derogatory, unless he takes a dim and lesser view of Mohawks?
I'm having trouble understanding how you find it easy to believe that he "slipped" and said macaca when he meant mohawk (twice), but impossible to think that he pronounced a word that is spelled macaque as "makakka". Which is closer?
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