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To: editor-surveyor
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Although the term's provenance arose in African folklore (e.g., the gum doll Anansi created to trap Mmoatia, the dwarf), some Americans now consider "tar baby" to have negative connotations revolving around negative images of African-Americans.[3] In recent years, several politicians who have publicly used the term have encountered some controversy, mocking, and censure from African-American civil rights leaders, members of the popular daily media, and other politicians.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

In an interview, Toni Morrison said the following of its use in her book, in an acting of reclaiming: "Tar Baby is also a name, like 'nigger,' that white people call black children, black girls, as I recall…. At one time, a tar pit was a holy place, at least an important place, because tar was used to build things…. It held together things like Moses' little boat and the pyramids. For me, the tar baby came to mean the black woman who can hold things together."[11]

It is what it is.

citations at wiki.

196 posted on 12/11/2009 11:59:35 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel

Wiki - term: website run by loons, un-reviewed for accuracy, appropriateness, nor truth. Try again.


201 posted on 12/11/2009 12:03:38 PM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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To: xcamel

You the race baitor, and your far-left ‘Wiki’ can exit at any time that you feel artificially offended, and I’m sure that there’ll be no significant objection.

Words mean things, even if you don’t know them. You have proven yourself to be a tarbaby, by the most accepted definition.


214 posted on 12/11/2009 12:14:28 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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