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Brian_egeston
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Username: Brian_egeston
Post Number: 55
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 03:17 pm: | 
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Amsterdam News ran a piece on this.
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/articles/2008/11/26/lifestyle/recipes/doc492db514075ee099666325.txt
Newspaper calls Obama the N-word, or does it?
By GLENN TOWNES
Special to the AmNews
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:51 PM EST
The cover photograph was engaging and pervasive, but the title was disturbing and racist. A brilliant and bright color photograph of President-elect Barack Obama graced the cover of an Atlanta newspaper earlier this month with the letters H.N.I.C. boldly emblazoned
across it.
It isn’t until one looked below the acronym that would one see that the letters didn’t stand for the derogatory epithet featuring the dreaded N-word. Instead, H.N.I.C. translated to HIS NAME INSPIRED CHANGE! Barbershop Digest is a 1-year-old monthly publication and brainchild of African-American publisher and writer Brian Egeston. The free newspaper is distributed at metro-area Atlanta barbershops and salons and has a circulation of about 80,000.The newspaper focuses on current issues and events relevant to African-Americans. Egeston said the notion to put Obama on the cover with the acronym H.N.I.C. was a way to perhaps spark some initial controversy and shock value that is immediately followed by a creative alternative and solution.
“In the past, most people saw those letters as derogatory and racist,” Egeston said. “We wanted to show that now those letters are significant and have a positive meaning along with our new president.”
In the previous issue of Barbershop Digest, current President George Bush was featured on the cover with the title, “American Gangsta,” plastered across the bottom of the photo. The subsequent story featured an unflattering tongue-lashing of the out-going Bush administration. To view the current issue of Barbershop Digest, go to www.barbershopdigest.com. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13136
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 05:57 pm: |
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How about that? Our own Brian Egeston publishes a newspaper!
Not surprising, I like a little controversy. I also love double-entendre and ambiguous irony. The cover in question is winking satire and, as such, is brilliant!  So I, personally, don't find the caption under Obama's picture offensive.
Actually, I always considered the "H.N.I.C." tag a kind of inside joke among Blacks, and wasn't aware that Whites used it to any great extent. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 1127
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 09:24 pm: |
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Brian I need a copy of that paper and I will send money. Hit me up please.
LiLi
LibraLind2@aol.com |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 1128
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 09:28 pm: |
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Brain never mind..I just went to the site and did the pay pal peice but the address is wrong...I need to give you the correct address
LiLi |
Brian_egeston
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Username: Brian_egeston
Post Number: 56
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 04:18 pm: |
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We call it a magazine, but you can call it a can opener as long as Black men in barbershops read what's inside.  |
Nels
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Username: Nels
Post Number: 1230
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 10:22 pm: |
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HNIC...back in the the chips! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 13162
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 03:20 pm: |
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Where you been, Nels?? |
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