Rep. Lamborn: Working With Obama Is like 'Touching a Tar Baby' (black president, examples)

[janelle144]

Originally Posted by Smash255

Blacks have been called tar babies as a racist term. Blacks have not been called Tar Heals as a racist term. Why is that so hard to comprehend??

I don't know, I don't know racist terms from team terms and I would wager most people don't either. Some just like to stir the pot.

[bluesjuke]

Originally Posted by Backspace

Looks like he explained exactly what he meant.

When I hear "tar baby" I think of the racist connotation of the word.

Actually reading what & how he said it its easy to see he used it in its original context.

[Smash255]

Originally Posted by janelle144

I don't know, I don't know racist terms from team terms and I would wager most people don't either. Some just like to stir the pot.

I would wager most people are able to have conversations without somehow blurting out a racist term. There are many ways and terms Lamborn could have used to describe his frustration with the whole situation without resorting to using a racist term.

[janelle144]

You know the game of pool is racist don't you? It really is. Think about it. You have a white ball hitting all the colored balls into the pockets and all that is left is the white ball and you win. Racist for sure.

[nightflight]

Originally Posted by SoEdible

How does anyone not know what a Tar Baby is? And if they didn't know the derogatory term for it, I doubt they would know some alternative use for it.

I thought it meant a person or situation that was "sticky", as the tar baby in the Uncle Remus story.

[janelle144]

Originally Posted by nightflight

I thought it meant a person or situation that was "sticky", as the tar baby in the Uncle Remus story.

Poor Uncle Remus---that story and movie can't hardly be shown anymore. It has gone the way of Huck Finn.

[SoEdible]

Originally Posted by nightflight

I thought it meant a person or situation that was "sticky", as the tar baby in the Uncle Remus story.

You never heard of the term "Tar Baby" being used to describe a black person? You never watched the old Looney Tunes cartoons where they exagerrated the skin color of the black characters in the shows? LOL That's a tar baby.

[Smash255]

Originally Posted by janelle144

You know the game of pool is racist don't you? It really is. Think about it. You have a white ball hitting all the colored balls into the pockets and all that is left is the white ball and you win. Racist for sure.

So you went from comparing an actual racist term to the team name for UNC and now you are comparing it to pool. Any other asinine comparisons you want to make in defense of Lamborn's racist terminology?

[SoEdible]

Originally Posted by janelle144

You know the game of pool is racist don't you? It really is. Think about it. You have a white ball hitting all the colored balls into the pockets and all that is left is the white ball and you win. Racist for sure.

No, it's just coincidence there and a lot of imagination.

[renault]

Originally Posted by andrea3821

I have no idea what a tar baby is or how it should be interpreted. Or whatever racial connotations you're asserting about the term.

I'm certain that the person in question was using the term to mean that it's frustrating (or something similar) to work with Obama.

People will spin anything to try to make whites and/or conservatives look racist.

Agree here. I've never heard of this particular expression before. Pretty much anything could be interpreted as racist if one so choose to. Heck, if liberals could have their way the entire Dictionary would labeled as hate speech and banned because they'd decide that most most words in it are racist and offensive.