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Thread #159827   Message #3803403
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Aug-16 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
"So can you find anything to support your silly assertion?"
Don't get out of that easy - you have claimed something which is horrendously racist - you claim others told you to say it - you lied whi the **** wants to discuss anything with a serial liar?
If it's a smear - give your quotes - it really doesn't get more simple than that.
AS far as "picanninny ids concerned - every sentient human being knows it is regarded as a racist insult and has been for a long time
"Controversial usage[edit]
"The term was controversially used ("wide-grinning picaninnies") by the British Conservative politician Enoch Powell in his "Rivers of Blood" speech on 20 April 1968. In 1987, Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona defended the use of the word, claiming: "As I was a boy growing up, blacks themselves referred to their children as pickaninnies. That was never intended to be an ethnic slur to anybody."[14] Before becoming the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson wrote that "the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies." He later apologised for the article. [15][16]"
Your defence of this term confirms your racism
Jim Carroll