this administration is responsible for so much death and destruction, and people are upset about a choice of words.

makes sense.

So you expect more from others than from yourself? CAN YOU HEAR YOURSELF?
This is the DEFINITION of P.C.; to prefer the controversial connotation over the denotation simply because it inflames.
Idiots.

Now exactly what “lore” is that? Is that from an American oral-tradition folk tale or a old folk song from the Delta? Nope! I don’t think we are talking about lore here. I think we are just talking about usage (actually misusage) of a term, and mostly I gather by certain African Americans who for some reason think it is significant that they happen to be a shade lighter-skinned than someone else.

That isn’t lore, that’s just perversion of lore–perversion of a legitimate folk tale that exists in many variations across West Africa–and the destruction of one more little piece of African American history and ethnology. The Tar Baby story communicates wisdom about traps and inextricable situations. It has not one single thing to do with skin color.

But avoid the term completely! Strike it from your vocabulary and your memory! And also never use the word “niggardly” to refer to stinginess. Because if you say any of these things, you may inadvertently get all wrapped around and tangled up with uneducated fools who think that somehow every thing in the world refers covertly to race and skin color. And that is just a big Tar Baby you must avoid at all cost.

Ditzy left-wing columnist Molly Ivins wrote in October 2001, “It now looks, with 20-20 hindsight, as though he should have taken a few more deep breaths before smacking that tar-baby that is Afghanistan.”

In a 2003 interview with the Boston Globe, John Kerry described 1992 hearings on missing soldiers in Vietnam as a political “tar baby.”

This past May, White House press secretary Tony Snow said of a program to monitor terrorist communication, “I don’t want to hug the tar baby of trying to comment on the program–the alleged program–the existence of which I can neither confirm nor deny.

The athletic teams at California’s Compton High School are called the Tarbabes. (The population of Compton is more than 40% black.)

If an atheist is offended by my use of the term “in Jesus Name” must I not use it?

If a Racist is offended by my use of the Term “equal opportunity” must I not use it?

If a Muslim is offended by my use of the term “Mohammed, the pedofile prophet”, must I not use it?

If a Jew is offended by a Muslim’s use of of the term “Decendents of apes” is he forbidden to use that term?

I should be obvious that the use by Tony Snow of the Tarbaby term refers to the Brer Rabbit story. It is a common enough story, Disney made millions off it (though will not rerelease “Song of the South” now).

That a racist subminority once used a term as a derogatory does not poison the wonderfully descriptive term. Rather the people who would reject a wonderful story from our common black/african heritage are revealing their Racism.

Projection. It has a cure: Honesty.

Uh, the it should be VERY easy to produce such evidence. But one problem… there is no such evidence.

If I say I was on vacation and saw a water buffalo, am I a biggot?

Give me a break. This is ridiculous.

I really dislike this administration, but just because someone knows a different word usage from yourself, you can’t condemn him. Show some understanding. He’s a white boy and probably never heard the term used racially before. Personally, I’ve never heard the term used racially – and I’m a 30 year old college educated international businessman.

I hate what the republicans have done to our country, but the complete lack of perspective of idiots like those posting here is really disheartening.