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I'll stick with the later of the two. The first one stated "most common American usage" most often we Americans use words in the wrong context. I rather stick with whats historically correct, not common usage. The people that put that billboard up are justplain white trash, nothing more.
"I've used the N-word most of my life and there is different ways to put your opinion up, but that's just the words I choose to use," owner Patrick Lanzo told WGCL. "I've put signs up for 22 years. ... I've put all kinds of political signs up."
Despite the presence of a mannequin clad in a Ku Klux Klan outfit standing amid the pool tables, Lanzo maintained he's no a racist. The bar has pictures of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. on the walls, he pointed out, and he also showed a reporter his 2005 NAACP membership card.
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"This latest ploy for attention by Mr. Lanzo is not surprising. What is of concern, however, is the total lack of leadership and action from the elected officials of Paulding County, who repeatedly have allowed this type of toxic public display," the statement [from the local NAACP chapter] read.
The ACLU would defend Mr Lanzo's right to free speech. Is the NAACP wrong to criticize?
I'm with ZGACK, but then I always was one to defend a person's rights to speak and believe as he wishes... something that the liberal fascists have difficulty understanding.
"a word that in old english is derived from a latin term nergho meaning ignorant, foolish, uneducated, that has very little to do with race or origin"
urban dictionary
Just about all of the words listed in the Urban Dictionary have multiple definitions....that's just one definition among many....besides that all the words and the definitions that go with them, are all user supplied....any one can add to it.
I understand the point you're trying to make though. The problem with it that you're ignoring what it's come to mean today in this country.....it's irrelevant what it means in Latin, it's a dead language (the last Roman that spoke it has been dead for a long time too). The word was used to describe slaves back in the time of slavery. After slavery was abolished, those that continued to use the word to refer to someone black, were in many ways expressing their disagreement with them no longer being slaves.
Eh, I'm going with the ACLU stance on this one. His speech is deeply offensive to me, but it's on his property and it's his right to express his political view. None of the government's business at this point.
Eh, I'm going with the ACLU stance on this one. His speech is deeply offensive to me, but it's on his property and it's his right to express his political view. None of the government's business at this point.
Ok, so its his own property, then it would be ok for him to walk around naked in his yard in plain view of children just like the sign is in plain view?
Ok, so its his own property, then it would be ok for him to walk around naked in his yard in plain view of children just like the sign is in plain view?
Hmmmm!? I see that there is no reply to this one, so I must have hit a nerve in the "your right category.
Ok, so its his own property, then it would be ok for him to walk around naked in his yard in plain view of children just like the sign is in plain view?
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Originally Posted by EarthBound?
Hmmmm!? I see that there is no reply to this one, so I must have hit a nerve in the "your right category.
Or maybe nobody wants to talk about this idiot redneck anymore
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