Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Another missed opportunity
The real comedy here would've been if they'd lynched "nigger." It turns out that the print version of this story is not available online, as far as I can tell. This is too bad, or maybe it's good, because we can watch the Chronicle editors try to tiptoe around it, not even deigning to call it the "N-word" outside of a quote. The print version is titled:
At public burial for racial slur, many cheer its symbolic end And the subheader,
Black leaders say epithet must be expunged from comedy, music. Which epithet? What racial slur? Aren't you going to do what the online version here does and go with the simpler, yet more descriptive,
NAACP Symbolically Burys N Word The online version:
Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention. gets shifted in the print version to:
Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for a racial epithet during its annual convention. Aww, come on, print version. I'm holding my breath waiting to hear what word we're talking about!
Anyway, the thing that made me think it'd be more appropriate to hold a lynching was the line:
"Die N-word, and we don't want to see you 'round here no more." Another modification:
The N-word has been used as a slur against blacks for more than a century. to
The word has been used as a slur against blacks for more than a century. Some more details from the print version:
The NAACP has been criticized with being out of touch with young African Americans, but Tiffany Tilley said the organization is moving in the right direction. Who's Tiffany Tilley? This apparently rebuts the view that the NAACP is out of touch with young blacks...
"This is a great start," the 30-year-old Detroit resident said. Hmm... Is 30 young?
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