Senator Kerry’s “Tar Baby”
by Aaron Margolis, July 23rd, 2008 at 01:09pm
Our junior senator recently used the term “tar baby”–a term that when used by Governor Mitt Romney resulted in race-baiting.
“I think John [McCain] is trying to throw that big tar baby out there. You want to lose, you don’t want to win. Of course Barack Obama wants America to be successful.”
While I see nothing wrong with the term “tar baby,” I do have a problem when Republicans are criticized for using it when Democrats get a slide. If it is inappropriate for Republicans to say “tar baby” and they get called arrogant if they do, so should Democrats.
We strive for equality don’t we?
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1. V | July 24th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Aaron, you shock me! You seriously think “equal” means “equal”???? (I know you were being sarcastic)
They can use any word they want because it “means” something different to them.
This is like Imus and Bernie calling the b-ball team “nappy headed ho’s”. “Nappy headed” was used in a song by Stevie Wonder and no one complains (granted that was 30 years ago); and “ho’s”, just listen to rap. And you think none of the women on the team ever call each other “bitch”, “ho”, or “ni***r”?
According to “Whoopie”, they can use any word they like, it’s just that WE can’t (you decide who “we” means.
For cryin out loud, one lug head even complained about the term “black hole”. Pretty soon you won’t be able to say lots of words or phrases that start with black.
blackball; black berry; black and blue; black eye; blackhead; black and tan; eye black. We’ll even have to change the name for the color black to something else.
Maybe the Mass legislature can write a law striking the word black from the books.
I wonder what color ink they will print it with…….