Slip Of the Tongue

[Ken]

A DJ in St. Louis was fired, after saying a racial slur in the middle of praising Condelleza Rice.


"She's been chancellor of Stanford," Lenihan said on the air. "She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that."

He said he had meant to say "coup" instead of the racial slur.




But the BLACK...Mayor of New Orleans can say it will be "Chocolate" city again.....and nothing happens.

[Mr. Miyagi]

I saw that..... Welcome to the hypocrisy of black America otherwise your just another racist.... lol.

[Ken]

I sent the manager of the station an email....fawk him.


Sure...he saved his cushy job. If the DJ was spouting as a point of view? Well....that's one thing.


But the guy was clearly praising her...and wrong word came out and he instantly appologized....he didn't need a spin doctored news conference 3 days later to do damage control.


Nothing like caving in to the narrow minority view....

[Thrasher]

but this is OK by 'them'

Actor Tries to Trademark 'N' Word

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70259-0.html

The actor Damon Wayans has been engaged in a 14-month fight to trademark the term "Nigga" for a clothing line and retail store, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online database reveals.

Wayans wants to dress customers in 14 kinds of attire from tops to bottoms, and use the controversial mark on "clothing, books, music and general merchandise," as well as movies, TV and the internet, according to his applications.

But, so far, his applications have been unsuccessful. Trademark examiner Kelly Boulton rejected the registration dated Dec. 22, citing a law that prohibits marks that are "immoral or scandalous." A previous attempt by Wayans was turned down on identical grounds six months earlier.

"While debate exists about in-group uses of the term, 'nigga' is almost universally understood to be derogatory," Boulton wrote to Wayans' attorney, William H. Cox, according to the application.

Cox and other representatives of the actor did not respond to interview requests about the registration.

Wayans can appeal the rejection, but experts in trademark law differ on his chances for success.

Lynda Zadra-Symes, a trademark lawyer in California, said Wayans may be successful. She compared "Nigga" to the successful registration of Dykes on Bikes. The San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent fought the Trademark Office for three years to overturn an initial rejection of a Dykes on Bikes trademark. The mark was published Jan. 24.

"Because the application was by a group of lesbians it was eventually allowed to publish," Zadra-Symes said.

"This is a great victory," the group proclaimed on its website. "It affirms our right to determine who we are and how we present ourselves to the world."

However, Tawnya Wojciechowski, another trademark attorney practicing in California, compared Wayans' application to the ongoing legal case where Washington Redskins trademarks have been challenged by seven Native Americans. "They're going to have a really tough time," Wojciechowski predicted.

The word "nigga" is ubiquitous in hip-hop music, where it provides half of a rhyming couplet radio listeners never get to hear in the Grammy-winning song "Gold Digger" by Kanye West.

Ol' Dirty Bastard used the term 76 times in the 1999 album Nigga Please, not counting repetitions in a chorus.

In January, an episode of the late-night Cartoon Network series Boondocks was criticized for putting the word in the mouth of a fictionalized Martin Luther King Jr.

The effort to commercialize "nigga" drew a sharp response from a black school official who participated in a forum about the word earlier this month at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

"I don't care for it in any form," said Dr. Lonnie Williams, associate vice chancellor for student affairs. "Either way you pronounce it, spell it, anything associated with it -- I find it offensive."

If Wayans succeeds in persuading the Trademark Office to permit the mark, he may have to deal with Keon Rhodan, a 29-year-old entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, who has been using "Nigga" on a line of T-shirts, hoodies and other attire for six years in a part-time, trunk-of-his-car business.

Rhodan attempted to register "Nigga'Clothing" as a trademark in 2001 and was denied by the Trademark Office.

"They said it was disparaging," he said.

Rhodan, who is black, said that he's sold around 2,000 of the shirts at events. When he began selling the shirts, emblazoned with the term "Nigga," he thought he would take criticism, especially from older people.

"I was in the mall with one of the shirts on, and an old lady said, 'Where did you get that shirt from?'" he said, expecting the worst. "She followed me to the car and bought five shirts for her grandchildren."

Rhodan believes that affectionate use of the term within the black community should make it an acceptable mark, but the Trademark Office has thus far has not been persuaded by that argument.

"The very fact that debate is ongoing regarding in-group usage, shows that a substantial composite of African-Americans find the term 'nigga' to be offensive," Boulton wrote in rejecting Wayans.

Though attempts to commercialize "Nigga" coincide with a generational shift in how the word is perceived, the clothing is still likely to test some boundaries, as Rhodan demonstrated in a phone interview.

"You couldn't wear it," he said.

[Ken]

What a mess....

Nigga...WHOA...Sorry...I meant to say ASSWIPE.

[Ken]

BTW....


Here's the manager of the radio station's email.

timd@ktrs.com

[BearCat]

Nigga...WHOA...Sorry...I meant to say ASSWIPE.

Put that on A T-shirt!!!!!

BC

[oldtrucks]

Do you ever find yourself in a mixed ethnic group? You know, a few caucasians, an asian, a black, or whatever. Your mind starts to think of something funny you heard and suddenly you're fighting to keep yourself from laughing or blurting out. Then this poor guy slips and wham...makes me worry and wonder

[Mr. Miyagi]

What a mess....

Nigga...WHOA...Sorry...I meant to say ASSWIPE.

lol..... Clothing line for Whitie "Wigga".

[MrPolaris]

save a spotted owl, wipe your ass with a "wigga"

[Ken]

"My understanding is that he apologized, said he didn't mean it," Rice
told "FOX News Sunday." "I accept that because we all say things from
time to time that we shouldn't say or didn't mean to say."


Except for Tim Dorsey...the Station manager...he's perfect.