Now They Want To Formally Ban the N-Word

"Days after Michael Richards’s racist tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club, Leroy G. Comrie Jr., a New York City councilman, seethed as he listened to some black teenagers on a Queens street spewing out the same word Mr. Richards had been using.

Andrea C. McElroy, an Irvington, N.J., councilwoman, with Tahmille Robinson of Irvington; she introduced a measure to ban the slur.

“They were saying ‘nigga’ or ‘niggas’ every other word,” said Mr. Comrie, who is black. “I could tell they didn’t get it. They don’t realize how their self-image is debilitated when they use this awful word in public.”

So Mr. Comrie sponsored a resolution for a moratorium on the use of the n-word in New York City, prompting a spate of similar proposals in half a dozen local governments across four states in recent weeks. The New York City Council is scheduled to discuss Mr. Comrie’s proposal tomorrow and vote on it on Wednesday; the City Council in Paterson, N.J., and the Westchester County Legislature both unanimously approved such bans recently.

The measures, which describe the forbidden word as an “ignorant and derogatory” insult toward blacks, try to sidestep First Amendment questions by calling for “symbolic” bans only, meaning they do not have the force of law. Because they are largely aimed at blacks who use the word among themselves, the proposals have revived a debate over whether minority groups can co-opt epithets and make them empowering.

“There is a swelling population of black youth that use this word as if it is a term of endearment,” said Andrea C. McElroy, a black councilwoman who sponsored a ban on the racial epithet in Irvington, N.J., that was passed this month. “And I think it is basically incumbent upon us to remind them of the story of what that word meant to so many of our ancestors. This is something we probably should have done years ago.”

STOP ON A DIME TIME

Huh? They want to ban a word. In America they want to ban a word. Can't convince the people using it to stop, well, using it, so in the land of the free and the home of the brave they want to defecate upon the 1st Amendment because they don't particularly want to hear something.

Can you say "Slippery-Slope-Time", boys and girls? The very premise of banning a word, even though it has no legal gravitas behind it, is anathema, disgusting, and far, far worse than the word itself. And how long before it goes the seat belt-route? Remember when a cop couldn't issue a summons upon discovering you were not wearing a seat belt? It went from a warning, to only ticketing those who were so derelict AFTER being pulled over for something else, to a cop running you off the road if he doesn't see the harness harnessed. Once the genie is out of its bottle there's no putting him back. In a short matter of time, their "symbolic" ban will evolve into one with a stiff penalty attached, but guess what?

But, ya think cops will be ticketing blacks for saying nigger?

Yeah right. If they did we'd pay off the national debt in record time, but it isn't going to happen.

So instead of hoisting themselves up by their own bootstraps, it is once again ENTITLEMENT TIME at the N-Word Corral. The word is so very heinous and the vast majority of blacks use it, but since they cannot be trusted to voluntarily cease and desist, why, let's make us another LAW. A law like some dirty old place like Europe would add to the books, a law so anti-American as to warrant a protest march in the name of the Founding Fathers.

Damn their eyes. I don't use the word but am dying to take it up just because.

Thanks to The War On Guns.