Chasing Lamborn, Reprise 0
Hanlon, who I normally find muy sympatico, does not think that Congressman Lamborn’s characterizing President Obama as a “tar baby” was racist.
I must disagree.
Unfortunately, in a new bug-not-a-feature, Hanlon’s blog now requires me to create a user name and password with some service called “LiveFyre” (not with his blog, which I would quite happily do) and I’m not going to do that, so I cannot comment directly. It’s not worth the annoyance.
So I will disagree right here, because I have a website and I can do that thing.
Hanlon quotes Lamborn, then says
It’s nothing at all like using “niggardly.” Niggardly is a word with a long history that has nothing to do with race or racial slurs. Those who attribute racism to its use display their own ignorance.
He identified the primary reason I disagree when he wrote this:
honestly who even says “tar baby” any more . . .
There is one group who says “tar baby” any more.
And it ain’t, to quote the immortal Bugs Bunny, Wendell Wilkie.
I’m a Southern boy.
I can decode the damned code.
