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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There is a freeper named paulat that is an expert on racism. Ask her.
I last heard it on a Little Rascals short. I think in was in 1970.
I think the term broadened out and evolved. My neighbor called any group of kids that went by pickininis.
So now you ask...yer pret near ignorant about everything, aintcha?
Pickaninny From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pickaninny (also picaninny) is a pidgin word form which may be derived from the Portuguese pequenino ("little") via Lingua franca. According to one hypothesis, pidgin has the same etymology.
In the Southern United States, it was long used to refer to African American children. This use of the term is believed to have originated with the character of Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The term was still in some popular use in the US as late as the 1930s, but has largely fallen out of use and is now considered offensive.
Reproduction of an old, tin sign advertising Picaninny Freeze, a frozen treat.It is in widespread use in Melanesian pidgin and creole languages such as Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea, as the word for "child" (or just young, as in the phrase pikinini pik, meaning piglet). In certain dialects of Caribbean English, the words pickney and pickney-negger (pronounced "pick-knee" and "pick-knee nay-ga" respectively) are used to refer to children. In Nigerian and Cameroonian Pidgin English, the term used is "picken". In Chilapalapa, a pidgin language used in Southern Africa, the term used is "pikanin".
The term was also controversially used ("wide-eyed grinning picaninnies") by the British Conservative politician Enoch Powell in his "Rivers of Blood" speech on 20 April 1968. In 1987, Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona defended the use of the word, claiming "As I was a boy growing up, blacks themselves referred to their children as pickaninnies. That was never intended to be an ethnic slur to anybody." [1]
The most famous Picaninny in the past is “Topsy”. “Picaninnies had bulging eyes, unkempt hair, red lips and wide mouths into which they stuffed huge slices of watermelon.”[2] “Topsy” made her appearance in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. With the portrayal of “Topsy” within her novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe wanted to make known to the world, the evils of slavery and how it has affected the African American race. The Picaninny was distinguished by its young age, male or female. It also had a head of wild hair that was disheveled and dirty. “They were also half dressed and animalistic. The picaninny was seen as one of a multitude of black children – disregarded and disposable.”[3] The Picaninny was also characterized as half-naked to imply that African American parents ignore the well-being of their children.
Picaninnies were also often illustrated in the company of animals. "Picaninnies were shown crawling on the ground, climbing trees, straddled over logs, or in other ways assuming animal-like postures." These illustrations were viewed on post cards and in newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny
Not JUST racism, but every bit of history that ever occurred, and if you never heard a regional racist term, you are fully ignorant - no black or white (no pun intended). Hag = fly
Fierce? Wassup?
What on earth has gotten into you?
I fully admitted I knew the term because old, deceased members of my family were racist.
Never heard of it. What is its origin?
Ask paulat (see post 108)
Just kidding!
i have some goya sardines in tomato sauce, want a bite?
Actually, Wikipedia was pretty good on this. #124.
It was very good. Thanks for that post.
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yep. they were lots bigger than I like my sardines to be though.
It's pretty stupid and pathetic to insult someone for not knowing every random antiquated racist term ever used. The only reason anybody in AZ remembers is that it was a feature word in one of Ev Mecham's many faux pas. Get off the high horse, your family history is nobody else's fault.
Actually, upon reflection, it was my family member that made me familiar with the "n"-word.
I did pick up "pickaninny" from "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The book was on my great-grandparents' shelf for decades.
It has been so misconstrued throughout the years. Even Abraham Lincoln knew its import. When he was introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said, "So you're the little lady who started this great big war."
Words from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have had a HUGE role in our country's history. I'm sorry many don't know it.
You mean "Pickaninny"? I doubt that happened either.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" had a huge impact on our history, individual words not so much. I don't think world history would have changed had that book not included "pickaninny", it's really the plot that did the work.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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''Uncle Tom's Cabin''
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Boston edition
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator Hammatt Billings (1st edition)
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher National Era (as a serial) & John P. Jewett and Company (in two volumes)
Released 20 March 1851
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. The novel had a profound effect on the world's view of African-Americans and slavery, so much so in the latter case that people have said the book laid the groundwork for the American Civil War.[1]
Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. She first published this book on March 20, 1852. The story focuses on the tale of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whose life the other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible)[2] and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. The book's impact was so great that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the American Civil War, Lincoln is often quoted as having declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."[3]
The book also created and spread several common stereotypes about blacks, many of which endure to this day. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned mammy; the Pickaninny stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have to a large degree overshadowed the historical impact of the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
Words not so much?
"Uncle Tom" is still used today as a derisive term. We've already discussed "pickaninny." Even Aunt Jemima has moved away from the "Mammy" image.
The words are still powerful.
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