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Post by 🍁 CDN 🍁 on Jul 31, 2008 7:28:03 GMT -5
Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman (this would be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston), reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names. She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jamal. I am NOT making this up! She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in 'language' that street people can understand because one of the problems that happened in New Orleans was, that black people couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the racially biased language of the weather report. I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow at 140+ MPH, that's too hard to understand. I can hear it now: A weatherman in New Orleans says...Wazzup, mutha-fukkas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' yo ass like Leroy on a crotch rocket! Bitch be a category fo'! So, turn off dem chitlins, grab yo' chirren, leave yo crib, and head fo' de nearest FEMA office fo yo FREE sh*t! www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33896
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Post by sasquatch on Aug 1, 2008 0:41:31 GMT -5
Yeah I recall an american black comic, I think Chris Rock, remarking on this. Once he had sufficient affluence to take a trip to his ancestral home, Africa, and had experienced it's charms, sights and especially it's smells, he was immensely grateful his "Great,great great whatever grand-pappy" had "caught the boat". Another urban myth, like global warming....... Actually slavery was pretty much a peripheral issue as far as the causus belli of the "War Between The States". Socio-economic factors which manifested with the "carpet baggers" following the collapse of the Confederacy.........Indeed the KKK was originally a means of defence against the carpet baggers. It was pretty much friction between the industrialised North against the agrarian, commodity dependant South. Remember this predated the development of the Kansas wheat empire and much predated the Corn Belt empire of the mid-west.
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