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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Many thanks
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Also, it's hurtful to some African-Americans to ever see that word in print.
Understand that your intent is the best, but I've run into situations where it's caused inadvertent trouble.
CatWoman
(80,288 posts)and I have more contempt for the people saying it rather than the word.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I've just had other African-Americans indicate over the years that they would prefer to never see that word in print.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)unless they tell me.
I made a polite request based on my experiences with people's reaction to that word. Obviously, not all people feel that way.
bqhatevwr
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)Ugliness like this need's to have a bright spotlight put on it to expose it.
Just as Fox and other neo-cons repeat lies til they're believed by their base; the more we openly show this vile racism and bigotry, the more people will realize how wrong it is. Unfortunately, that's what it will take for that to happen.
I never get used to this kind of thing and always feel such a painful pang in my heart over it. Sometime I'll tell the story of how at age 14, I consciously realized my best friend was a different color than me. Pointed out by a bigot. Today is not a good day for me to do that.
Anyway, CatWoman, I admire you for what you said.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(135,443 posts)Sad a low life like this teabagger exists but if they do we need to know about them.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Making a deal of an appropriate use of the word detracts from the vulgarness of the inappropriate use.
IMO, and I am white, it is condescending to a degree to say n-word. It's like it absolves guilt.
It's the intent that is vulgar and not the word.
ignorance can be educated , but for stupid , there is no cure . These folks are beyond stupid . just plain hateful and dumb .
BainsBane
(57,750 posts)After reading it I can't focus on the article you posted.
Party Favors
(21 posts)I hate the sight of the word.
RudynJack
(1,044 posts)The word is still in your mind. How do those particular glyphs affect you so strongly?
BainsBane
(57,750 posts)I suppose because I was taught to never use that word, so it shocks me when people do.
CatWoman
(80,288 posts)don't you?
BainsBane
(57,750 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)low-life scum.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)That type of despicable ugliness SHOULD be exposed far and wide. To use the N word in this regard just exposes the hate that lurks in their ugly, pathetic little hearts (and that's operating under the assumption they have a heart to begin with).
Recommended.
CatWoman
(80,288 posts)it's not as if I called him that.....
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)The contrairian DUer demanding you change the title is just that - contrarian for contrary's sake.
Rock on, my Friend!
Cha
(318,812 posts)it was not done. "Contrairian" DUer? just because he had personal experiences that made him think to ask? Really?
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)You and I have been here long enough that the history shouldn't escape either of us.
Cha
(318,812 posts)"demanding" is untrue.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)
Seriously?
No, CW was making a salient point, and DU's resident contrarian (well, at least one one several) came and tried to poop on the thread.
Cha
(318,812 posts)"Contrarian"? Just because someone has a different opinion than yours? That's what this message board is all about.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)
Bake
(21,977 posts)And I'm caucasian.
People NEED to be shocked. What the teabaggers did was shockingly disgusting, and people need to SEE IT and be shocked by it. Expose the hate and ugliness far and wide, indeed!
Bake
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)They might as well shout, "I'm an ignorant asshole, and I don't care who knows it!".
emperor_bob
(2 posts)Posted this link and people are calling BS because there is no video or other substantiation of the claim. I can understand their skepticism since it was the President and the pool reporters should have video of it. There is video of the President inside the school but none outside?
uppityperson
(116,017 posts)emperor_bob
(2 posts)uppityperson
(116,017 posts)Not everything is caught on video.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Including a person who was there. Please see my post #64.
spanone
(141,523 posts)K&R..
Skittles
(171,564 posts)
undeterred
(34,658 posts)bigoted idiots.
ismnotwasm
(42,674 posts)I bet they thought President Obama has never heard that word before, that his wife hasn't heard it, his daughters. That they thought they were reminding him of his 'place'
His 'place' is in the White House assholes, his place is leading and representing Americans, including loathsome bigots. You're too late racists. He's the leader we the people elected. Your name calling is hurtful, if that was your intent. You got a little attention if that was what you wanted, but at the end of the day, you got nothin'
I they thought somehow, in there thought somehow in their fucked up minds that they could bring him down, instead they'll watch him rise above. Far above, and they have to know on a visceral level if nothing else, how small and petty and mean and useless they really are.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Even if the story isn't true.
CatWoman
(80,288 posts)she molded him. she taught him to be patient, understanding and respectful. and to turn the other cheek.
he was constantly taunted by Indonesian kids who hurled that epithet at him.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)A lot of people are saying that Kos thread was started by a troll.
Read the comments.
I report, you decide.
Number23
(24,544 posts)I did a search and nothing has turned up on this in the news. Very curious...
demmiblue
(39,669 posts)CatWoman
(80,288 posts)having lived here the past 15 or so years, I have to say I can't find it very hard not to believe.
You won't believe some of the shit people have had the nerve to say to my face.
You should read some of the blogs (political AND non political) in the AJC some time....
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)The diary is a FAKE started by a troll to make liberals look like fools. The diarists admits that they weren't even there and would update with verification from there "on the scene" contacts. This still has not been done.
I understand that it the story seems plausible but unless it is verified, both DK and DU do not look reliable.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)This is not a shock to me, since I see this all the time regarding Obama....although saying it to his face is more than I would have expected, since most of these people are only tough in their own groups.
This is as low as a pregnant snake's ass.
trueblue2007
(19,236 posts)slug, slap, throw rotten stinking tomatoes and rip their clothes right off their bodies. make them run someplace stark naked!!!!!!!!!
for a starter.... someone else can throw them in jail
ReRe
(12,189 posts)...for hate speech. IMHO. Respectfully.
Animal Chin
(175 posts)It's just the price you pay for the first amendment.
TxDemChem
(1,924 posts)The last time someone yelled that at me, I was 7 and he was an adult, my dad whooped his ass and my mom dragged his wife down the stairs by her hair. They both said the assault charges were worth it. Even now, 23 years later I wished I could have gotten at least one kick in. But I digress, it's 2013 not 1913.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I would've been with your Mom and Dad.
CatWoman
(80,288 posts)I came home on leave and took her and my niece to the pier at Virginia Beach. The backdrop of the pier were several hotels.
I got them ice cream and we were just hanging out, when all of a sudden some white guy came out on the balcony several stories up and yelled "NIGGER".
I never felt so helpless in all my life......
TxDemChem
(1,924 posts)What as a parent can we do? While I appreciate what my parents did, I could never see myself going to that extreme. We almost had a case with my daughter a couple of years ago where she got into an argument with some kid, and because she's half Mexican she got called a wetback n****r. She said she took care of it by telling the other kid he was a n****r because he was ignorant and he was just confused. He transferred out of their school shortly thereafter. I never told her of my experience until then, but I think she handled it maturely. Mind you, she was barely 6. I still hope to see the day when that word is expelled from our language, but living in Texas, it may be a while.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)It makes me weep, thinking about kids, especially African American kids who get to see President Obama as a role model they can relate to and have to witness THAT. That total lack of respect, even when he's achieved something as significant as becoming President and still, that shit. Ugh.
Those people need to be shamed to the point where they really have to face the ugliness in their hearts.
Demobrat
(10,297 posts)than the person it's used to describe. It's too bad it still has so much power to hurt, when really all it does is expose the speaker for who s/he is.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Because without a recording, it didn't happen and these asshole baggers will continue to get cover from the media.
nolabear
(43,850 posts)Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)For it's breaking over the ever-present cruelty that prevails wherever ignorance is abundant. The right shuns higher education. Education has a way of uplifting humanity, so now they degrade it as superfluous and wasteful. We are living among a hateful population like I've never before seen in my life.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)The "big" crowd photos are near the Rec Ctr. "downtown", ( in connection with Decatur, we must use big and downtown advisedly) and you see some mostly college age environmental protesters mixed in with the rest of the crowd. I promise you they all voted for Obama, every one of them, whether they are holding up signs in support of green jobs and against the Keystone pipeline or not, or whether they are old white guys dressed in suits or not.
The last batch of people seen outside are in the very crunchy-granola multi ethnic neighborhood of Oakhurst where the preschool is. All shiny happy smiling faces. Oakhurst is so with-it, it has its own wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakhurst,_Georgia
Oakhurst is an eclectic, liberal-minded community, typical of intown Atlanta. It has a diverse mix of African Americans, white residents, senior citizens, singles, young couples, young families, empty nesters, and a large gay community. According to the 2000 Census, slightly fewer than 5,000 people lived in Oakhurst.
TV crews were in both the Rec Ctr and preschool locations as you can see from the still photos - taken by tv crews. If there was any stink, they'd be on it. The young people in the crowds all have camera phones and they'd have been on it too.
This is very liberal country, Nolabear. Decatur is a small town sandwiched between two universities, swallowed up inside Atlanta. John Lewis is our Congressman. I repeat: John Lewis. If he even had a Republican opponent in the last election, nobody caught his name.
I wasn't there so I can't promise you it didn't happen, but unless you see a picture or video of the alleged incident, you really should not believe it happened and get upset over it. It's just some BS posted by a 4 post troll (literally) at Daily Kos and just not worth it.
If you browse the actual photographs in the gallery and look well, I'm sure you'll feel much better. Especially about the future.
lib87
(535 posts)Snarl, foam at the mouth, shout racist words/sayings and hope their ignorance drowns out progress and acceptance in this country.
Fcuk 'em.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)
Rhiannon12866
(255,037 posts)I can't even imagine how someone could be so despicable... And to the President of the United States, no less! 
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Other Dkos members who were there say it never happened and the protesters weren't Teabaggers but climate protesters who were convivial on nonthreatening.
hard. If you follow the link to the picture, you can read the URL in your browser's Location field. it is this:
www.11alive.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/photogallery/277644/prezvisit_29 .jpg
Which is pretty obviously some sort of TV station website, and which has pretty clearly labeled this as the 29th photo in a series related to the President's visit.
You can then go directly to the main website, www.11alive.com, and follow the links to the original gallery, where you will see the photo captioned thusly:
People run up Sycamore Street to greet President Obama's motorcade (Julie Wolfe, 11Alive News)
You can furthermore move back in forth in the gallery and find another photo that shows that the people in the photo are primarily left-wing critics of the President. Which, by the way, is exactly what you'd think just from the way their appearance.
If anything unpleasant did happen, it is not documented in this particular news report.
From the comments
The crowd was upbeat, a great vibe, no evidence whatsoever of baggers or people hurling racial slurs. The only protesters I saw were some amusing folks dressed up in elephant costumes who were there to protest the Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus and their treatment of pachyderms.
...this suspicious and unsourced diary now has 1,000 Facebook likes and 32 tips despite the fact its author, who has a breif record of incendiary posts, has not graced us with the update that he promised.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)we keep reacting to this as factually having happened?
quakerboy
(14,856 posts)Shouting racial terms at the president in front of little kids is about the best thing they have to offer. The rest of their playbook is even worse.
rightsideout
(978 posts)The Tea Bag people are racists. Plain and simple.
They can sugar coat it complaining about an "overspending government" for their reason to protest
But the fact remains their little party started as soon as Obama was elected before he had a chance to enact his policies.
They didn't form when Bush was spending billions on the wars and the billions spent on the Bush Tax cuts and plunging the country into a big deficit. They didn't complain when Cheney said the "deficit didn't matter." No siree. They formed when Obama was elected. They didn't like the black man in office.
They are racists through and through. And I don't mind telling it to their face. I've done it on some of their FaceBook pages. They get angry but that's their problem. It's their people shouting out racist remarks.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)And including the ugly word uncensored. 25 years ago I might have been the guy shouting that word. Today I winced when I saw it spelled out in print here. It serves as a reminder just how far this ol white country boy has come over those years.