Says who? There were plenty of whites back in the day who would refer to their most loyal workers as “my good niggahs”. There were also plenty of blacks who did not have a problem with it.

Stupid = Stupid

Dumb = Dumb

Nigger = Nigger

There is just no way around it , dawg. You can’t embrace the same word as your own while at the same time condemn whites from using it. That is called hypocrisy.

I remember when J-Lo used it in a song (not derogatory–if that’s possible). Black folks raised hell about it. I even remember seeing some folks went as far as to throw beans and rice at one of her public appearances.

Eminem went though something similar.

Yeah, hypocrisy!

I so wish I could take you to a retirement center somewhere in the south where there are many blacks who actually lived through the days when “nigger” was an insult. You would get cussed out of the building.

Until you are ready to fully address how Arab Muslims contribute to the genocide against dark-skinned Africans in Darfur, I suggest you leave Arabic “history” out of this discussion.

I guess we were wrong to consider this an insult.

Make sure you remember all of that “history” the next time some white racist calls you a nigger.

Boondocks?

I don’t understand it. I don’t understand the name. How does the name of the strip connect to the content? I don’t understand the huge afro the kid sports. Huge afros went out of style 20 years ago. But mostly I don’t understand how a comic strip that hasn’t told one gag, shown any wit, or makes no real commentary about anything can be voted best of anything.

Not that I place any credence in what the NAACP does. You’ll recall, they awarded Michael Jackson their “image award” not too long ago. Your older readers may recall how the NAACP lobbied to get Hattie Mcdaniels off the 1950 sit-com Beulah because they thought her pure African features demeaned African Americans, or how they successful got Amos ‘n’ Andy off the air because they thought the shows lawyer character Algonquin C. Calhoun demeaned black lawyers.

More recently the Mfumi used the weight of the NAACP to get a sit-com about the Lincoln White House canceled. The show was on a white-owned network, but produced by blacks. Nonetheless, Mfumi, a man with no education, training, or experience in the art form felt he was qualified to tell blacks who were, what’s appropriate and what isn’t.

Meanwhile, BET continues to poison the hearts and minds of new generation after new generation with their hip hop filth, and the NAACP has not uttered a single word in protest.

Sick.

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Sharpton can’t flip-flop and call a spade a spade (No pun intended). You can’t get all obtusely liberal and provide advocacy for a quadruple murderer by shotgun named Tookie (One victim was even shot in the face), and then go a tirade about respecting historical Black figures. Nor can he invite wealthy white liberal politicans to his church to patronize us about “plantations,,,,,you know what I’m talkin’ bout’ ”, and “about being the next Black president (While giving the Black power fist salute no less)”. True, the pimping of King’s legacy is getting just plain tired and uncreative. Yes, King was a pacifist and would be opposed to the war in Iraq. Position respected. He would also be opposed to the 70% out of wedlock birth rate in our community, he would also be opposed to the murder rate of us by us, and he would be completely nauseated and opposed to the ungodly behavior and attitudes glorified by the hip-hop minstrel sub-culture. May I add, these issues are completely absent from the lips of the Black elite liberal establishment. Just because you are “annointed” to keep whitey on his toes, doesn’t mean you have to pretend our issues of detriment don’t exist.