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You and the congressmans lack of knowledge or pure ignorance show just how out of touch so many are with the mainstream. It's nothing to spin, "tar-baby" has been a racial slur for decades. In some households, that's not a big deal, using racial slurs is accepted as it probably is in this guys house.
Not keeping up with racial slurs is now called ignorant?
I've only known the term in its Uncle Remus meaning, i.e. getting trapped into something unpleasant that you can't get free of. It seems ironic, too, since the tar baby character (as used in Uncle Remus) comes from African folklore.
I'm reading now that Toni Morrison once wrote that the term was used by whites to refer to black girls. I'd never heard that, though I'm well aware of another derogatory term for black children that more people have probably heard. I grew up in the South in the early 70s and certainly heard my share of racist talk but this term used in a racist way seems to have escaped my ears.
Was there outrage over the Marvel Comics character "Tar Baby"?
Do we need to expurgate the Uncle Remus tales, the way some call for bowdlerizing Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn?
I think some are too quick to ascribe the remark to ill intent.
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