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City Council bans use of the "N_gg_r" word
angryChineseKahanist:
City Council bans use of the "N_gg_r" word
http://www.amny.com/news/local/ny-nyword0227,0,5427928.story?coll=am-topheadlines
A City Council committee Monday unanimously approved a symbolic ban of the racial slur known as the N-word, putting New York in the middle of a national debate over whether the term has evolved into acceptable slang.
"I'm hoping this is the beginning of a move forward to a place where the use of the N-word is simply unacceptable," said Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), the chief sponsor of the resolution. "So many people have been quietly seething about this for a long time. It's time to bring it into the open."
Read more...http://www.amny.com/news/local/ny-nyword0227,0,5427928.story?coll=am-topheadlines
Does that mean there will be no more rap songs?
Trumpeldor:
This board has already banned the word. I don't see any uproar over here.
Fruit of thy loins:
They may as well go ahead and ban the white race. Ban whites from having children.
Does this mean libraries will have to hand over historical and scholarly works which use the n-word?
Sickening stuff.
tony6d2:
1984ish!
Hail Columbia:
Wow, this pushes us back 40 years and 6000 miles...
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