Dr. Laura and the N-word; etymology and the N-word

[Rick Barr]

Something else that has frothed on the blogosphere is Dr. Laura's use of the
NAACP as a verb: "Don't NAACP me!" (It comes up about halfway through the
clip Jonathan provided.) All the first ghits point to Dr. Laura.

-- Rick


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > [C]ommenters move quickly into antisemitic mode
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> That was what Richard Pryor was getting in his ca.1970 parody of a
> roundtable on race.
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> Black militant [excitedly interrupting current speaker]:
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> "Everybody's always talking about the Jews... !!!"
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> Moderator [interrupting militant in his turn], sternly:
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> "Excuse me! No one here has said anything about the Jews."
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> Black militant [still totally freaking]:
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> "You will!!! You will!!!
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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