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Chrishayden
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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I saw Cornel West on Tavis Smiley last night.

Man that guy is always great. He was talking about his new CD and about the NAACP burying the N Word.

In short he said it was a meaningless though well meaning gesture. He said Martin Luther King could come in and say Nigga all he wanted. Would you say he didn't love black people?

If you can catch it, do so.
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Enchanted
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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:45 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

hes right because I dont use it like that but I use it by habit
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 04:00 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

He did comment that he was aware of all the negative and hurtful history and things attached to it but pointed out that "burying" a word was a meaningless gesture and then brought out that the NAACP has it's own problems with misogyny and black love ("Colored People"?) and that they have been missing in action many times when real issues arise with its own members and those of its white supporters.

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Cynique
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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 04:22 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Jeeze, you'd think Cornel West wouldn't stoop to the level of dummies like chrishayden. Guess some folks don't recognize a symbolic gesture used to call attention to a stand taken. What the NAACP did impacts more than a lot of preaching and entreating. It may not change a lot of minds, but it does "dramatize" their crusade to bury the N-word.
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 04:39 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I'd like to bury the N-word--I'll give you three guesses where!
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Cynique
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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 04:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LMAO. Is that the best you can do, crissy?
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 10:31 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LMAO. Is that the best you can do, crissy?

(I'm just getting warmed up. Just wait til I start posting CYNIQUE COMIX right here!)
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Cynique
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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 11:15 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You are never more funny, chrishayden, than when you try to make somebody look more ridiculous than yourself. Your tongue is forked, your brain is skewed, and you suffer from the entitlement syndrome wherein you think YOU by virtue of being YOU are the only one who can criticize anything. watta jerk. LMAO.

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