Posted on 04/14/2007 7:04:31 PM PDT by neverdem
In my salad days I worked with a gentleman nicknamed “Peas.†His hair, you see, was “peasy.†While I as unfamiliar with the term “nappy,†I was ahead of the curve is some ways. I declined to use his nickname, figuring that it might be offensive coming from a honky. Terminology apart, I sure miss him. Most of the lower class black folks, and I was one -lower class, that is, were kind and generous with a delicious sense of irony. I wander from the subject, so forgive me. Tomorrow, perhaps, I’ll have the strength to take on the cultural Marxists who brought us to this pass.
It isn't ’t. It’s jocular guy trash that doesn’t really mean anything. Guys, especially under 35 yrs old, do it constantly. As it happens, nobody cared when Imus called black, male basketball players “breast beating pimps”.
“If he’d said “snigger”, he’d be in even bigger trouble.”
What, the blackguard is niggardly with his snigger? Well, that’s a hard row of corn to hoe. Oh, dark day.
“women of real accomplishment.”
Basketball is “real accomplishment?”
God help us.
Ya gotta admit, Sharpton is a master baiter.
So - it is part of "black culture" to intentionally degrade one-another, calling their women "ho's", and taking about rape, murder, and all that? Wow - who is promoting racism and race identification?
ROFLMAO
I know what you’re saying.
Yes, the primary meaning of “nap” is the texture of a carpet, covered by short fibers sticking up. And by extension you could use it of roughness in a paint job, as you say.
nappy:
–adjective, -pi·er, -pi·est. 1. covered with nap; downy.
2. (of hair) kinky.
Actually, as Imus used it, the phrase could be considered affectionate, as you might speak of a nappy-headed baby. Alfred Harbage points out that Shakespeare frequently uses “affectionate abuse,” as when Lear comes out at the end of the play with his daughter in his arms and laments, alas, “my poor fool is dead.” “Fool” isn’t a putdown in this context, it’s a term of affection. You can only use such language with people who are very close to you. The same, I suspect, with “nappy headed ho’s.” Trash talk is a little rough, but it’s not necessarily contemptuous all the time.
Nappy means kinky or bristly, like the top of a carpet. But, yes, that would be considered cool. As I said to someone else, if you called a girl “nappy headed” it could just as easily be a term of affection as abuse, depending on how you said it. Actually, the same with ho’s, although that might seem to be stretching it. But Emily Post’s Book of Manners doesn’t really apply.
Seriously, my son spent many hours at his best friend’s house when he was young. He said they always, affectionately, called each other “nappy headed.” I never knew about this until this issue came up!
When I was in basic training, I recall a bitter woman repeatedly making snide remarks about white girls always flipping their hair back. She’d put a towel on her head and try to make fun of us. She didn’t make it through basic; and she had few friends while she was there.
Apparently, I should have raised a ruccus over her racist accusation...and I didn’t even know it.
You’re welcome.
I have been waiting for SOMEONE (anyone) in the media to bring this up.
(”what if YOUR daughter etc”)
Maybe need to send a link to Sean Hannity or Mark Levin.
Truly an nasty comment.
You’re absolutely right. He just should have said “it was a joke”. They may or may not have fired him. But the cowering to a race baiter like Sharpton was embarrassing. And NOT the Don Imus I’ve been familiar with for years. He got some bad advice on this one.
The underlined word above will be next, if used in a public context. Take it to the bank.
So we shall have to be niggardly with our sniggering? Oh, well, there’s always snickering.
Maybe they meant Whitey Ford.
In Snoop's world...but hey, you gotta admit, the girls got game!
No, I’m legal. “Guy” just doesn’t do anything for me. I’m a man, used to be a boy.
HERE COME THE WORD POLICE:
I think “Gal”, referring to the other gender, is a 100 times more offensive than “Guy”...I am a woman who used to be a girl. And while I am on this soapbox...do we need to refer to our children as “kids”....”kids” are baby goats. And what do you think about calling “ladies of the night”: “ladies”? And how about “Mr” Manson and/or “Mr” Simpson?
The news “guys” and “gals” don’t seem to know better...ugh !!!
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