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.
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Nappy?
And then they put out a press release denouncing bush for not doing enough about black poverty.
Believe it or not but I actually watched a video on youtube, a "white" dude while rapping used the n-word and really, really pissed off the black rapper on the stage.
Not only he was the worst rapper I ever heard, he has got to be the biggest moron on the planet. And the sad thing is he is going to vote on who our next President will be...
[yawn]
And like a zombie it will return with the next Rap-Hip Hop record.
They better let Robert Byrd (D-KKK) know.
Hoo-Ray!!
Shouldn’t the NAACP bury the C-word too?
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