Dany fly on my screen.
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.
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Pickaninny is old school. Must have a lot of youngsters on this thread.
YOU were married to Anna Nichol Smith?!? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Surprised that she has a kid.
Figured her to be so cold that when she opened her mouth a light went on.
And you never heard that? Where and when, if I may ask?
"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.
I googled picaninny mudlflap and found nary a one for sale.
I call B.S.
Sometimes life ain't fair, kid.
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.
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.
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.
On a lighter note, I got my Duncan Hunter bumper stickers and buttons today :)
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.
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.
That's what I was thinking.
Surprized at how many FReepers have never heard this term before.
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.
"pickaninny"
Never heard of it. What is its origin?
I'm sure more material will come after that fund raising dinner on the 24th. Wish I could go. Too far though.
Hag? What hag? I had some ugly insect on my screen. Did I miss something?
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"
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