Geuzennaam: a Dutch term for a negative or derogatory name appropriated and reclaimed as a positive label of empowerment.
June 27, 2007 7:28 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: "Kennedy proclaims a similar argument for using the word nigger. He argues that everyone (including whites) can use nigger, as long as the context of its use is clear and appropriate." This is not one of those times. -- jessamyn
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posted by The Deej at 7:39 PM on June 27, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by The Deej at 7:39 PM on June 27, 2007 [2 favorites]
Are there any niggers here tonight? Could you turn on the house lights, please, and could the waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what did he say? "Are there any niggers here tonight?" I know there's one nigger, because I see him back there working. Let's see, there's two niggers. And between those two niggers sits a kike. And there's another kike— that's two kikes and three niggers. And there's a spic. Right? Hmm? There's another spic. Ooh, there's a wop; there's a polack; and, oh, a couple of greaseballs. And there's three lace-curtain Irish micks. And there's one, hip, thick, hunky, funky, boogie. Boogie boogie. Mm-hmm. I got three kikes here, do I hear five kikes? I got five kikes, do I hear six spics, I got six spics, do I hear seven niggers? I got seven niggers. Sold American. I pass with seven niggers, six spics, five micks, four kikes, three guineas, and one wop. Well, I was just trying to make a point, and that is that it's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. Dig: if President Kennedy would just go on television, and say, "I would like to introduce you to all the niggers in my cabinet," and if he'd just say "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" to every nigger he saw, "boogie boogie boogie boogie boogie," "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" 'til nigger didn't mean anything anymore, then you could never make some six-year-old black kid cry because somebody called him a nigger at school.
posted by mds35 at 7:43 PM on June 27, 2007 [3 favorites]
posted by mds35 at 7:43 PM on June 27, 2007 [3 favorites]
I...uh...don't get it.
posted by hermitosis at 7:49 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by hermitosis at 7:49 PM on June 27, 2007
Afroblanco! Ha!
posted by Roman Graves at 7:53 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by Roman Graves at 7:53 PM on June 27, 2007
Back on topic -- Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy and his book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word."
posted by ericb at 8:12 PM on June 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by ericb at 8:12 PM on June 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
No.
posted by Methylviolet at 8:16 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by Methylviolet at 8:16 PM on June 27, 2007
Is someone saying that "a spade is a spade" isn't about a kind of shovel?
posted by taosbat at 8:47 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by taosbat at 8:47 PM on June 27, 2007
&...is someone saying that all I have to do to expiate my white-anglo-liberal guilt is drink Belgæ beer unto my own beggary?
posted by taosbat at 9:03 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by taosbat at 9:03 PM on June 27, 2007
mds35: You totally stole that from Lenny Bruce.
posted by Slap Factory at 9:21 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by Slap Factory at 9:21 PM on June 27, 2007
None of this racism stuff applies to me because I plan to vote for Obama.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:26 PM on June 27, 2007
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:26 PM on June 27, 2007
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