Posted on 04/12/2007 4:07:07 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
I still don't really know what nappy means, or why it's bad. Why is referring to the texture of one's hair an insult anyway?
If I said my hair was straight, would the Gaystapo boycott me?
I’ve been referring to my oldest son as ‘my nappy-headed kid’ for years. The other son has board-straight hair. Earliest exposure to the term I trace to working with sewing patterns & fabrics.
I spent a couple of days in Chicago last December during the NFL playoffs. The “Trash Talk” about the New Orleans Saints heard all over the local radio would have made a “nappy headed ho” blush!
What I'm wondering is how that '5-alive' drink comercial stayed on the tv for so long. It had a wide eyed, nappy haired dude pulling canned drinks out of his hair. And as far as rap "music' goes, if all the intentional derogatory insults are "ok", then there should be no reason Johnny Rebel country music isn't given the same airtime.
Oh, my friend framed it as a “woman” thing, not a race thing.
So we have the elitist racial leaders who are more insulted by a comment about their hair than a comment about their sexual promiscuity. Hmmm....
McGurk was replying to Imus' mention that the Tennessee girls were cute and the Rutgers girls had tattoos.
McGurk made reference to Spike Lee's "School Daze" where one group of black girls were referred to as "Wannabees" (white) and the other group of black girls were revolutionaries and referred to as "Jigaboos" by the "Wannabees".
The movie had a whole production number with a dancing chorus singing about the differences.
Since Imus is quite catholic in his music choices from show tunes to rap, he's probably heard the "nappy" phrase in a Ice Cube song.
All that aside, I think some of this is staged to get Imus out of his contracts and go to satellite radio under his old boss, Karmizan.
I have nappy hair. It’s just not on my head!
I thought “ho” is short for whore in ebonics. Correct or not? Anyone?
maybe that’s it, it’s a black woman thing. They were on Oprah today- Oprah certainly wasn’t going to miss out on an opportunity to shout “racism” but I couldn’t stomach listening to the BS “coach Vivian” was spewing and turned the channel.
Didn’t take them long to go from refusing to talk to Imus to demanding he meet with them, and advancing their “victim” claims.
Let's be accurate those two crackers are professional victims not prostitutes (hookers are more honest). They should be forced to explain why they defend the lyrics of rappers who say much worse things about women than Imus.
I thought “crackers” was a derogatory name Negrow’s called white people.
All this hoopla is kind of like Seinfeld: a show about nothing. . . honestly, how absurd can a national cultural dicussion be?
Ho is short for street walker, a prostitute. Ho for “honked at”. The lowest form of prostitute, although “crack ho” — a ho addicted to crack is arguably lower than low. And that’s the down low, homey.
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