Rep. Lamborn: Working With Obama Is like 'Touching a Tar Baby' (generation, conspiracy)

[tippinturtle]

I know & everyone I know who heard this know exactly what that term means. To try to spin it into something other than a racist word is ridiculous.

[andrea3821]

Originally Posted by Frozenyo

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?

[Backspace]

Originally Posted by andrea3821

Not keeping up with racial slurs is now called ignorant?

It seems logical that people who are racist themselves tend to keep up with racist terms and slurs.

[robbobobbo]

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.

[zz4guy]

Originally Posted by Frozenyo

Rep. Lamborn: Working With Obama Is like 'Touching a Tar Baby' - Political Punch

I'm sure he has no idea how that term is interpreted in 2011 despite McCain and Romney both being screwed by using the term in recent years.

True feeling always seem to slip out in soundbites.

I have less kind words for our president.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Well, I didn't grow up in a "Liberal" household, and I've heard it.

I've heard it as well, but it had nothing to do with racism..

‪Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby‬‏ - YouTube

LOOK AT THIS RACIST

‪Uncle Remus' "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby" as told by Jorja‬‏ - YouTube

ooh, thats not a racist, just liberals turning everything into race again

[pghquest]

Wait, here is a BLACK LADY who used it.. I bet she's a racist!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yinJgCyJhlw&feature=related

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by Backspace

Maybe it was just a racist household, I don't really care.

Wow! I was just thinking, are you calling my family racist, and then you post this:

Originally Posted by Backspace

It seems logical that people who are racist themselves tend to keep up with racist terms and slurs.

Keep up the personal attacks Backspace.

[Bagger]

Originally Posted by andrea3821

Not keeping up with racial slurs is now called ignorant?

Here you go, learn something new:

Urban Dictionary: tar baby

[aquabluesrq]

Tea Party Terrorists though lol