So I was reading this thread about some dumbass college stupids in Texas who thought it would so en pointe to hold a Martin Luther King, Jr. “blackface” party (except they forgot the blackface part) when I saw this link (on the page that had the original story.) ** Texas Mayor Wants to Outlaw N-Word.**
Yeah, that’ll work.
I see no problems here. I’m sure the cops are just itching to hear those complaints.
Sheesh.
Hey, watch it. We’re onto you.
Oh, dear fucking god. Just when you think a more asinine idea cannot be conceived than Bush’s War on Liberty I Mean Terror, along comes this idiot mayor. I like the black pastor who rightly thinks this is a dumbass proposition:
“This particular focus on this one word does not really address the issues, because we can’t regulate people’s thoughts,” said the pastor, who is black. “A person has a constitutional right to be stupid. We can’t make a law against people who may have feelings that we don’t approve of.”
[…snip…]
“It’s intended to target whites…but there are just as many blacks who use the word too,” he said. “It’s very difficult for me…to support any action aimed at one group with the intention of punishment and saying it’s alright for another group.”
[…snip…]
“Teenagers, adolescents, they have the tendency to be rebels. God forbid if they use it even more than what it’s being used now, but that’s highly possible,” he said.
Wow…50 Cent is gonna be one po nigga.
-Joe
Just FYI, these are the sort of “let’s make it illegal!” proposals that make your local prosecutors want to slap people.
OK. That’s funny.
(bolding mine)
Y’know, I think I just came up with a Constitutional Amendment that could save us a lot of trouble in the future.
Heck, passing my Amendment would put an immediate halt to flag desecration amendments and a host of other wastes of time and energy. 
Knowing where Brazoria is, I’m not altogether sure that the motivation behind this (terrible) idea is pure. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Black person prosecuted under this law, if it had less than a snowball in hell’s chance of becoming law.
Man, this is stupid!
Pastor sounds like a bright guy, though.
But if you outlaw stupidity, you risk making Cheney president when Bush is impeached.
But according to the Gonzales Doctrine, that the government may not take away our right to be stupid does not mean the right to be stupid exists. Or something.
Maybe it’s a clever ploy. The public is presented with the most absurdly ridiculous “solutions” to racism imaginable, so they give up wanting to fight racism. Then the racists win!
Shiit. Snoop Dogg’s gonna be payin rebates back to nine-trizzah.
I love Texas. I’m a native Texan. I’m proud to be a Texan.
But I have got to fervently wish to the bottom of my soul that Ken Corley is a transplanted damyankee. I would hate to believe that a fellow Texan could be that fucking stupid.
why do I feel cold all of a sudden? as if some one evil grasped my heart in their lifeless hands and yanked?
:rolleyes:
Who knew there were so many imported damnyankees in Texas? :rolleyes:
Wow, this explains so much.
-Joe
How many native Texas Southern Baptist fundamentalist preachers do you know? In my experience, you’re about waist deep in native born stupidity every time you walk out the door.
Well, just my cousin. Bless his heart, he means well.
I think we might have found the rare point that everyone here will agree on. This is an utterly stupid and patently unconstitutional idea. I think the flag burning analogy is very apt. It’s an idotic attempt to outlaw public trolling. Morons have a right to be morons.
I’m not sure how much this is being followed up on nationally so just to give an update from last night’s local news (Houston CBS KHOU)… they showed a pretty decent sized group of citizens of varied ethnicities that had gathered to tell the mayor what they thought of his idea. Without question it was overwhelmingly against, so much so that his response wasn’t “I’ll think about it” but more “Okay, there’s no doubt this was not a good idea.”
I’m kinda failing to see how accusing an entire state of something based on the stupidity of a few differs from racism or bigotry in general. “There’s a bigot so let’s broadbrush 20 million people.” How does that work?
There is one and only one proper response to this mayor’s proposal:
“Nigga, please…”
Woo-hoo! […cue Happy Days Are Here Again…]
We agree! We agree! 'Liz’bef, I’m ready!