Posted on 04/30/2007 7:56:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
DETROIT — The NAACP held a symbolic funeral in Detroit 63 years ago for Jim Crow.
The civil rights organization will do the same this summer for the "N" word, the Rev. Wendell Anthony said Sunday.
The announcement by Anthony, president of the civil rights organization's Detroit branch, came shortly before the start of the annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. He said members and supporters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will conduct services and a "eulogy" for the racial slur.
Jim Crow was the systematic, mostly Southern practice of discrimination against and segregation of blacks from the end of post-Civil War reconstruction into the mid-20th century.
This year's mock funeral will be held during the NAACP national convention July 7-12 in Detroit. It comes in the wake of the controversy over comments made by talk show host Don Imus.
Imus made derogatory remarks about black members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team. He was fired in early April by CBS Radio and NBC, but not until major companies like General Motors pulled their advertising spots.
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Are all the speakers going to take turns trashing President Bush?
A shame Richard Pryor isn’t around to give his Eulogy.
Ultimately, these people will put Scrappleface out of business
Ironic, no?
What’s the “N” word?
Nincompoop?
Nitwit?
Nudnick?
Does this “ban” apply to rap singers as well?
Apparently Colored People is still fine.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Nimrod?
ninny
That's some NAACPpy-headed show there.
They’re trying to heap a ton of guilt on whitey. It is ridiculous. They have to search far and wide foe whites who use the word. It’s mostly rap “singers” who use the word. However this organization is not interested in getting rappers to stop since there is no money to be made in doing that.
“Niggardly”?
How pathetic!
“Nappy”
THAT’S it!
Also, the more it bothers, the more it’s used.
A word only “dies” when you can use it without it meaning anything.
Are they implying that one can now say it, and people will only shrug their shoulders over it?
Rots a ruck Dummies.
What is Robert KKK Byrd going to say now? HMMMMMMM!
Will it be like rappers funerals where gun fights break out, people are killed, and then more of the same at the after party?
Now, was that really necessary? Making fun of ebonics like that?
On the other question, I have it: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism
The NAACP Image Awards have sometimes been the subject of controversy due to claims that certain nominees did not deserve to be honored by the NAACP. For example, in 1994, Tupac Shakur was a nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for the film Poetic Justice although he had been charged in December 1993 with sexually abusing a woman. [1] In 2004, R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory was nominated for Outstanding Album [2] although he was under indictment at the time for charges related to child pornography.
LMAO! Amen to that! I cannot tell you often I hear the “N” word spoken as a form of greeting in the hallways at the school in which I teach. These people don’t seem to realize the inherent hypocrisy incumbent upon those who glorify the “N” word’s use, but who hail from the ethnicity whose “honor” is slurred by the use of this epithet. The presiding logic train is always “I can use it because I am Black!” Not even a miniscule amount of mental energy is expended by most Blacks when this argument arise, always the knee-jerk response listed above.
It is interesting to note that there exist racial epithets for almost EVERY ethnicity, and all of them find the terms offensive no matter WHO utters them, except one. African Americans comprise the ONLY ethnic division in this country that actually EMBRACES the racial epithet targeted at them. The logic boggles the mind...
arise=arises
Did they invite the recording labels?
Please. Just tell me which rap artists will be the pallbearers and that will be our signal to pay attention to the funeral.
Somehow "Nobody moves, or the black man gets it!" just isn't as funny.....
What the world needs most, especially the AA world is a funeral for the NAAN.
Next funeral: Fathers Day.
I am sure a belligerent man-hater like Wendy Murphy would be pleased to deliver the eulogy.
Oh yes....that will make things better....
Fact of the matter - there are probably far more folks who are correctly defined by the term NOW - than when the dreaded word was first devised.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Roses are red,
violets are blue.
He won’t be there,
boo hoo hoo.
Any predictions on the next word to be banned by the opponents of free speech? “Faggot” or “dyke”? I totally expect this to be followed by many banned words, and that should alarm everyone. Of course such bannings carry no legal weight, but they carry significant political weight.
"DETROIT -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm, speaking today at a symbolic NAACP funeral for the "N-word," called for the burial of several other practices she said target blacks, including predatory lending, high insurance rates and Michigan's recent ban on affirmative action.
Michigan voters last year approved a measure that bans the use of racial and gender preferences in university admissions and government hiring and contracting. That effort was pushed by Ward Connerly, a businessman who led a similar successful initiative in California.
"We need to kill his efforts," Granholm said.
Granholm also called for universal health care and an end to the war in Iraq.
NAACP officials, leading a procession of several hundred people, carried a coffin from the Cobo Center to Hart Plaza for a symbolic funeral for the N-word in the hopes everyone will stop using the derogatory term for blacks." THIS, coming from the woman who's helped turn Michigan into the WORST current economic disaster in the country!
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