NEWS: Not Cool, Dog.

I'd sell him to Michael Vick. I like him that much.

Next question: Gypsies--for or against?

My thoughts EXACTLY, the one brute Dog that Michael Vick didn't get his hands on, and should have. What an IDIOT. Learn to fucking EVOLVE for pete's sake. Evolve already, Brah! You fake Hawaiian asshole, he'd better be doing something good over there or the State would dump his ass in the drink.

Can't say I'm too surprised, offended, or shocked to hear Dog would have racist sentiments. Also can't say I care much what an ex-con bounty hunter has to say about social commentary and racial politics. I really hate to say it that way, but he was already pretty much written off in my book as not being an intellectual heavyweight or socially significant BEFORE this happened.

As for the whole "nigger/nigga" thing, I honestly can't say it generates any solidarity or unity, andif that was the goal there ae a lot better words to choose. Usually when you ask somebody why they continue using the word despite its history they'll use this defense which only shows hey haven't put much thought into it. "Niggas" use that word everyday and it doesn't do anything to stop gang violence or Black-on-Black crime. The real reason people use it is because their grandparents and their parents used it and have gotten used to hearing it and being called that. It's cultural stagnation and a lack of intellectual insight that foster its continued use and acceptance. I'm having a hard time imagining Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Dubois, Martin Luther King or Malcolm X using it casually in conversation so at some point education has to change how you see and define yourself.

At the same time, context is everything so for the people who do choose to use it, whether or not they accept someone else using it or if they take it as "a term of endearment" depends on how it's used and by whom. If you want to talk the talk you have to walk the walk. You can't have just anybody throwing the word around like it carries no consequence.

Why don't we just sell Dog TO the Gypsies?

right up there with bonnie tyler on the one hit wonder list. thanks for the info.

Bonnie Tyler had big hits with "it's a Heartache" and "total eclipse of the heart" and a minor hit with "Holding out for a Hero"

Yes, only the government is bound legally to not abridge speach, but it might be nice if individuals (of their own accord) paid lip service to it occasionally. Not being legally bound to do something doesn't mean it can't still be the right thing to do.

This.

What happened to "uhuru?" That always seemed like the perfect one. Not something to call each other, of course, but it's to the point and hard for whites to appropriate. Seeing a white dude in FUBU is goofy enough. Have him start hollerin' "UHURU?" That would be beyond the pale LOLPUN.

Except that his public image has everything to do with his job as a celebrity. No one's saying he can't keep bounty hunting, but A&E doesn't have to make a show about a racist bounty hunter, and probably shouldn't.

learn something new every day.

Maybe there needs to be a show about a completely blatent and unapologetic rascist bounty hunter. Dog would be perfect. I never bought his feigned PC attitude anyway. That honky hates all manner of ethnicity. He really needs to come out of his shell.

Well, now there is talk of banning the word nigger in LA.

BANNING A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, not really a ban. Just a suggestion.

Even though it's a non-binding resolution or whatever, I just see this as launching the word to some new super status.

At least it will give the rap community fuel for more songs.

Fake Hawaiian? What the hell are you talking about, sista? He never claimed to be Hawaiian.

I saw where he apologized today and cried like a baby. Big tough guy.

Fixed.

Thnx

I dunno. I buy it. He seems like he'd really be that stupid.

The word BAN is being used. On the radio, on the tv news, in the papers. A suggestion? People do not need to vote "non-binding resolutions" on mere suggestions regarding words.

When a part of the government talks about banning words, then says it is just a suggestion, non-binding or whatever - that is the time to get worried.

Will they give non-binding bans on books that use the"N-word" next?

Where have you heard that there would be any sort of actual ban? New York did the same thing six months ago.

What I said was

In oither words, when there is TALK of banning words by any government related people, the rest of us should start to worry. If no one cares about a SUGGESTION to ban a word, what is to stop them from taking it to another level?

The First Amendment to the Constitution?