Latest on "negro"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's time public discourse made greater use of words like "dunce" and
"moron."

Bundy claims that the Federal Bureau of Land Management (established long
after *all the Founding Fathers were dead* you'll notice) has no right to
charge ranchers bargain-basement fees for grazing on Federal lands in
Nevada, because "Nevada is a sovereign state!"

Double standard: Even Obama would acknowledge that Canada is a "sovereign
state."  And does the BLM charge Canadian ranchers for God-given grazing
rights? Of course not.

That would be ridiculous.

JL


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/25/2014 10:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >Yahoo! News doesn't capitalize the word in its headline:
> >
> >"Jon Stewart takes a victory lap around Cliven Bundy's 'negro studies'
> debacle
>
> "The Week" didn't either (and earlier?):
>
> http://theweek.com/article/index/260513/speedreads-jon-stewart-takes-a-victory-lap-around-cliven-bundys-negro-studies-debacle
>
> Nor (once) does the Huffington Post, in quoting Bundy (presumably
> from an oral utterance):
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/jon-stewart-cliven-bundy_n_5210900.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
>
> but it does capitalize in:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/cliven-bundy-racist_n_5204821.html
>
> ><
> http://hsrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLtUc5aVpTZEEBWhibvZx4;_ylu=X3oDMTNtM3ZpajVwBGJwb3MDMQRjY29kZQNnYQRjcG9zAzQEY3QDMQRnA2MyZGJmZjc5LWM2YWUtM2FhMy1iOGYwLTJkNjE0N2Q2NGJhYQRpbnRsA3VzBHBrZ3QDMwRwb3MDMQRzZWMDdGQtc3RybQRzbGsDdGl0bGUEdGVzdAMyOTc-/RV=1/RE=1399643706/RH=aHNyZC55YWhvby5jb20-/RO=2/RU=aHR0cDovL3RoZXdlZWsuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaW5kZXgvMjYwNTEzL3NwZWVkcmVhZHMtam9uLXN0ZXdhcnQtdGFrZXMtYS12aWN0b3J5LWxhcC1hcm91bmQtY2xpdmVuLWJ1bmR5cy1uZWdyby1zdHVkaWVzLWRlYmFjbGU-/RS=%5EADAiCWytwLUFCBVirKlAroEtbIGOmg-
> >
> >"
> >
> >On CNN, child-free Carol Costello notes that Bundy's "use of the word
> >'Negro'"  was by itself "mind-blowing" and "reprehensible."
> >
> >(Bundy said today he thought that people of all colors should be able to
> >sit anywhere on the bus they wanted.)wart cliven
>
> Can someone do a riff on Cliven's cognate* Al, of "Married with Children"?
>
> * Employing A. adj. 1. "Descended from a common ancestor; of the same
> stock or family."
>
> But Cliven is probably also an evolution-denier, and doesn't believe
> he's descended from an ape.
>
> Joel
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