Posted on 07/09/2007 6:54:29 PM PDT by Baladas
There was no mourning at this funeral.
Hundreds of onlookers cheered this afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.
The ceremony, which NAACP leaders called "historic," included a 20-minute procession led by two pale gray Percheron horses slowly pulling a simple pine coffin from downtown Detroit's Cobo Center to Hart Plaza.
As it reached the plaza, the coffin -- adorned with a bouquet of fake black roses and a ribbon with a derivative of the word -- was carried on the shoulders of eight pallbearers to a spot in the outdoor amphitheater as a church choir sang: "We've Come This Far By Faith."
The coffin will be buried beneath a headstone at historically black, Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery.
"Today we're not just burying the N-word, we're taking it out of our spirit," Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said to loud applause and cheers. "We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the 'pimps' and the 'hos' that go with it."
He continued: "Die N-word, and we don't want to see you 'round here no more!"
The N-word has been used as a slur against blacks for more than a century. It remains a symbol of racism, but also is used by blacks when referring to other blacks, especially in comedy routines and rap and hip-hop music.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Typical superficial self congratulatory b.s. While they are wasting their time on this stunt, Black communities still suffer from broken families, poverty, and violence.
Pathetic.
Just another dead and buried N
Well Thank Goodness THAT’S finally put to rest once and for all! *Rolleyes*
Libtards. All symbolism and no substance. Same old, same old.
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I’m striving for a reply, but all I can come up with is a combination of...
!#@%^%$# retards
Whatever makes you feel better.
Logic? Who needs logic?
Guess we can do away with slavery reparations too then yes?
The NAACP hasn’t, doesn’t and won’t get the black community at large from calling each other “nigger” no matter how hard it tries. Sorry, no pass go, no collect $200. The only thing that’s going to stop “nigger” from being mainstay is education and proper upbringing in the black community. Every college educated, hard-working responsible black person I’ve ever met had as good if not a better vocabulary than me. All it takes is a little effort and giving a damn.
Wonder how much money was wasted on this
"Sho' nuff!"
"Dat's right!"
"Let dem ster'types die!"
So what did they put on the headstone? “Here lies a dead nigger”?
Well so much for the kid who does the Sparkling Wiggles act.
And did anyone notice? The word never appears in the article - it could just as easily be "numbskull" as anything else.
A B C D E C G H I J K L M O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
Ok someone had to do it.
As in "It is all the Honky's fault!"!
They ought to bury the N word, Nazi that is. When the left stops calling people that disagree with them Nazis, then they can complain about the slurs used against them.
Funny, I don’t see print articles or news reels showing conservatives using the word n*gger. But I’ve sure seen a lot of blacks and white libs call us Nazis.
Come to think of it, the last time I saw someone use the “N” word was a liberal white man, Sheets Byrd.
A rose by any name is still a rose....
Histrionic is more like it.
I guess if we have never been exposed to the N word, we would have to guess what it was that they buried: Never, nervous, nag, night, New York, nope...
I think it’s a good idea,if they follow through it will be even better.A word does not make a person.
Holy mack’l dere . . . Holy mack’l dere!
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