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truthpusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:42 PM Original message |
Tar Baby? |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sickening. |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. What a disgusting, vile, reprehensible, loathsome piece of shit. |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. He will lose re-election for that. |
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DemGa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Tar baby |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. NO! |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Tar Baby comes from Song of the South |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I am familiar with the story. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Wikipedia explains it better. |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. They were bunny-rabbits. |
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truthpusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
40. ancient southern children's books - ok.... contemporary political stage - not ok. |
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
49. That part makes sense |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:59 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. My parents read Uncle Remus to me as a pre-schooler. |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
39. There are others who share that opinion... |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:04 AM Response to Reply #20 |
52. Did you also read Little Black Sambo? |
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GoesTo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 02:48 AM Response to Reply #52 |
59. Julius Lester reclaimed the Uncle Remus stories as part of the African American heritage |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. That's right. The notion that it's "racially charged" is idiotic ... a recent invention |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
28. Like West Virginians! |
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truthpusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
42. I am 42 and this word has always been used as a racist term for as long as I can remember... |
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Terran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
43. You realize, of course, |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:49 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. I'm being honest. Deal with it. |
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last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
51. I agree |
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ekwhite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:14 AM Response to Reply #11 |
56. I grew up in the South and Tar Baby was most certainly racially charged |
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chascarrillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. It's times like these when I am so frickin' glad I moved away from Georgia. |
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DemGa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:18 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. So why tell me? |
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chascarrillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:54 PM Response to Reply #36 |
48. I sure do! The Oxford English Dictionary says it's derogatory, and I think it's authoritative. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:15 AM Response to Reply #36 |
57. I wish you'd give Obama the same benefit of the doubt that you're giving to a Repub. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
54. Thank Gawd we have a infamous H supporter excusing this. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
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ruby slippers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. I wonder what Imus thinks of that remark? |
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stahbrett (855 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. I'm not defending this idiot, but when exactly did "tar baby" become racist? |
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ej510 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Well when I was a kid tar baby was used as a racial slur about skin color. |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. It actually refers to a fable |
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stahbrett (855 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. Well, if this idiot had said that Obama was a tar baby, it would fit with your childhood memories |
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redstate_democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:19 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Well, I guess if he has said, |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. Tar baby isn't a racially charged term unless you are an extremist who cares nothing |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Agreed. |
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la la (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
44. uh- |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:58 PM Response to Reply #44 |
50. Born (1943) & raised in the Detroit area. |
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casus belli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Oh...really? |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. You aint seen nothing yet |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. Just a slip of the tongue. And I'm sure the Hillary supporters already on this thread agree. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. "Tar baby" isn't racist |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Ah....more lessons on racial sensitivity from the Hillary C. Wallace crowd |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. I'm FAR from being a Hillary supporter AND I'm appalled at her campaign's 'dog whistle' race-baiting |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:06 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. It really depends on where you grew up and the people you associate with. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:10 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Well, I grew up here in the Detroit 'burbs in the 40s and never heard it used racially. |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:13 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. I really think it depends on the suburb you're from. |
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redstate_democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. I've also heard the term "tar baby" used as a racial slur and I live in St. Louis. |
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last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:05 AM Response to Reply #32 |
53. I agree; I've lived almost all of my life in heavily racist East Texas |
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LowerManhattanite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:20 AM Response to Reply #32 |
58. This classic SNL bit from 30 years ago shows it in it's super-pejorative use... |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:11 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Try to follow this.... |
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la la (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
45. ack- |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Go ask a black person if it is or not |
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LowerManhattanite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:13 AM Response to Reply #15 |
55. The original usage in the “Br'er Rabbit” tales skates along the edges... |
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earthside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
23. Davis is an Idiot, but ... |
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redstate_democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
41. What IS a racial term? |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
26. The GOP won't be able to contain themselves during the GE |
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galledgoblin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
47. initially? no, tar baby was not a racist term |
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HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 03:01 AM Response to Original message |
60. what a load of fake outrage |
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