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Ariz. to still allow racist images on trucks
MSNBC ^ | 02/15/2007

Posted on 02/20/2007 12:26:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

PHOENIX - It's still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.

The House on Thursday rejected a Democratic amendment that would have banned splash guards with "images that are obscene or hateful."

The amendment's sponsor, Rep. Ed Ableser of Tempe, said he'd seen a splash guard that used the word "pickaninny" — a derogatory term for black children — and said his proposal was intended "to make sure those individuals that have hateful motives don't express or push those images upon others in our communities."

Rep. Theresa Ulmer, D-Yuma, supported the amendment and said it fit with lawmakers' other efforts to crack down on pornography and sexual predators.

"I personally am tired of explaining to my 11-year-old son why they (women) are depicted on mud flaps, but not all women are 36Ds. He's very confused by that," Ulmer said. "But seriously, this is about family values — what are we going to send out as a message to our children."

No law on 'hateful' Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, opposed the amendment, saying it probably violated First Amendment protections for free speech and that "hateful" isn't defined by law.

Democratic Rep. Ben Miranda of Phoenix voted for the amendment but said he did so only because he felt compelled to do so because a vote against it could be misconstrued.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: freespeech; mudflap; nakedwomen; pickaninny
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To: Responsibility2nd

Pickaninny is old school. Must have a lot of youngsters on this thread.


101 posted on 02/20/2007 1:57:01 PM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Crawdad
BTW, my wife posed for the image of the woman.

YOU were married to Anna Nichol Smith?!? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

102 posted on 02/20/2007 2:01:34 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Saw a picture of this...um...woman yesterday on a related thread.

Surprised that she has a kid.

Figured her to be so cold that when she opened her mouth a light went on.

103 posted on 02/20/2007 2:02:27 PM PST by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: Calpernia

And you never heard that? Where and when, if I may ask?


104 posted on 02/20/2007 2:07:04 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: Augustinian monk

"You just dont get it do you? That boy is "confused". DO we do nothing? Have you no decency, sir?"

Well, I am all for free breast implants and mandatatory diet and exercise for women.

For the confused children like this boy, of course.


105 posted on 02/20/2007 2:10:08 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

I googled picaninny mudlflap and found nary a one for sale.

I call B.S.


106 posted on 02/20/2007 2:16:45 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I personally am tired of explaining to my 11-year-old son why they (women) are depicted on mud flaps, but not all women are 36Ds.

Sometimes life ain't fair, kid.

107 posted on 02/20/2007 2:18:01 PM PST by RockinRight (When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks under the bed for Jack Bauer.)
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To: Calpernia
I had to go look pickaninny up. I thought it meant a bunch of kids that roamed the streets. I didn't know it was racial.

The lack of knowledge of history on these threads gives me the shivers.

In a certain sense...FReepers lash out at folks who remember what words mean...because they have no knowledge of the history. I very MUCH know what "pickaninny" means, because old, departed members of my family were out-and-out racists.

I am sure that Jay Leno, walking down the street in LA, could ask teenagers, "What is the Confederate Flag?" and just get blank stares.

108 posted on 02/20/2007 2:18:06 PM PST by paulat
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To: ExpatGator

I lived in Immokalee, Florida a couple years and the Albemarle of North Carolina for 5 years.

I heard the term pickinini. But I said I thought it meant a bunch of kids that roam the street. I didn't know it meant a race of kids.


109 posted on 02/20/2007 2:19:12 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: paulat

Excuse me? You accuse me of not knowing history because I don't know what the definition of a racial term is?

Go bark up another tree. And copy and paste where I lashed out at anyone.


110 posted on 02/20/2007 2:21:44 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

On a lighter note, I got my Duncan Hunter bumper stickers and buttons today :)


111 posted on 02/20/2007 2:22:48 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia
Go bark up another tree. And copy and paste where I lashed out at anyone.

Oh, grow up. You didn't know what the word meant.

I was remarking on a general tone on FR. Some folks don't know anything about history...yet they are the first to pontificate.

112 posted on 02/20/2007 2:27:53 PM PST by paulat
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To: Calpernia

You got buttons? Damnit, I only got bumper stickers last friday. I feel ripped off.

OK< I just had to check, and yeah, i got buttons, too! They were way down in the bubblewrap envelope.

Someone is gonna have to get real close to read these buttons. Not the greatest graphics, but they'll work for now.


113 posted on 02/20/2007 2:31:17 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I love pissing off liberals, both democrat and republican.)
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To: toddlintown

That's what I was thinking.

Surprized at how many FReepers have never heard this term before.


114 posted on 02/20/2007 2:33:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Warning. If your tagline is funny... I may steal it.)
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To: paulat

Dany fly on my screen.
115 posted on 02/20/2007 2:33:11 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Oh, don't sweat the Cranky Old Hags for Giluiani (COHG's)squad. Their numbers are swelling in the last month or so, and they just keep getting crankier with all the RudyFacts that keep coming to light.


116 posted on 02/20/2007 2:33:39 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I love pissing off liberals, both democrat and republican.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

"pickaninny"

Never heard of it. What is its origin?


117 posted on 02/20/2007 2:33:49 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Dont')
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To: Fierce Allegiance

I'm sure more material will come after that fund raising dinner on the 24th. Wish I could go. Too far though.


118 posted on 02/20/2007 2:34:25 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Hag? What hag? I had some ugly insect on my screen. Did I miss something?


119 posted on 02/20/2007 2:35:07 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

It was meant as a descriptor of poor, unkempt black kids. Not generally meant as an insult, but I reckon could be taken as such. The equivalent of "white trash young'uns"


120 posted on 02/20/2007 2:35:39 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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