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Ariz. to still allow racist images on trucks
MSNBC ^ | 02/15/2007

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: freespeech; mudflap; nakedwomen; pickaninny
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To: Responsibility2nd

I hadn't heard anyone say this word in a long time but over the weekend I saw that someone wrote"Stop pickanniny on pickaninny crime," on the ass-gasket holder in the Bay Meadows bathroom.


61 posted on 02/20/2007 12:52:39 PM PST by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.)
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To: Dixie Yooper
"...a term that was used for the half back/half white children..."

Wha...???...Never in the old Southern literature I've read and not in Yankee Webster's dictionary either. I've never heard mulattoes referred to as pickaninnies. It was an endearing term for Black children.
62 posted on 02/20/2007 12:52:46 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Pickaninny: choose your Democrat politician.


63 posted on 02/20/2007 12:52:53 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (] Tagline Under Construction [)
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To: The Blitherer
Hey, I'm offended when I see the naked women on trucks.

At least, that's what you tell your wife.... :-)

64 posted on 02/20/2007 12:53:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hey she ain't nekkid, she's wearing a hat.


65 posted on 02/20/2007 12:53:23 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: wtc911
How does one discuss slavery without using words like owned?

Would you say that America's first great Democrat, Thomas Jefferson owned his mistress's children?

66 posted on 02/20/2007 12:53:43 PM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Responsibility2nd
She ain't nekked , she gotta her hat on .


67 posted on 02/20/2007 12:54:27 PM PST by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: hophead

You get BEST post!


68 posted on 02/20/2007 12:54:38 PM PST by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I thought Picatinny was the accessory mounting system found on modern military firearms.


69 posted on 02/20/2007 12:56:28 PM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Dixie Yooper
Your original post: "Pickaninny is a term that was used for the half back/half white children on plantations. If they happened to be the plantation owner's children, they would most often become house servants."

Your recent post:"We aren't discussing slavery, we are discussing names for children."

70 posted on 02/20/2007 12:57:37 PM PST by wtc911 (You can't get there from here)
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To: Ieatfrijoles

What is an "ass-gasket holder"?

Wait. Don't answer that.

I probably just don't wanna know.


71 posted on 02/20/2007 12:57:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Warning. If your tagline is funny... I may steal it.)
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To: Onelifetogive

"Idiot!"

I was thinking more along the lines of COWARD!

But both work!


72 posted on 02/20/2007 12:59:21 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Monterrosa-24
I'm pretty sure the Websters I had that was printed in the 60's gave that definition. The new ones allow people to say things like Quepon for Coupon or Hieth for Height. If I didn't read it in Websters, then I heard it in a locker room, so it's true.
73 posted on 02/20/2007 1:00:59 PM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

"I'm pretty sure the Websters I had that was printed in the 60's gave that definition..."

There is just no way even Webster's dict. would give that definition to that word. I have a '73 edition and it states "Negro child".


74 posted on 02/20/2007 1:04:17 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"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.

Ulmer's son sounds like a g-damn idiot, actually.

"That's not a real woman, son."

"Huh?"

"On the mud flap. It's just a picture."

"What?"

"A picture."

"Huh?"

"That woman on the mudflap. She's not real."

"I don't understand."

"That's not a real woman."

"Where?"

"On the mudflap."

"A woman is a mudflap?"

75 posted on 02/20/2007 1:04:24 PM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: righthand man

There are more pictures on the thread from yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787257/posts


76 posted on 02/20/2007 1:07:58 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The dims and Ron Paul screwed our troops.)
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To: CFC__VRWC
>>>"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.<<<

Dear Mz. Ulmer:

Your 11 yr. old son needs to speak to his father. If his father is not involved in his young life, or if his "father" is just a donor, then you must assume all blame for your son's confusion and remedy it. Making idiot legislation to spread the blame is not going to work. For your "everybody does it, but it is wrong" efforts, your son is now a laughingstock at his middle school. That poor kid.
77 posted on 02/20/2007 1:08:00 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.

Another John Kerry Democrat ("I was for it, before I was against it") panders shamelessly to his hypersensitive, humorless constituents of color. Yeah, let's just throw the First Amendment out of the window because some representative of color saw the word "Picaninny" on a mud flap somewhere. And let's make sure that we craft the language of the law so broadly that if some minority or equally hypersensitive party should ever see any offensive words like "Republican," or "Hunter Duncan '08," they can complain and get those banned as well.
78 posted on 02/20/2007 1:16:18 PM PST by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
I like people to have rascist things on their trucks or clothing.

Makes them easier to spot.

Altogether a good thing.
But beyond that, I have had serious problems all my life with the concept of thought crime and hate speech, so long as it is not accompanied by physical intimidation of any kind.

People should be punished for what they do that is otherwise a real crime, not for what they say --- or think.

79 posted on 02/20/2007 1:17:27 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
...what are we going to send out as a message to our children."

How about "Freedom of Speech"? That too tough of a message for you?

80 posted on 02/20/2007 1:23:14 PM PST by Monkey King (and yes, I'm going to Hell for that comment)
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