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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:57 AM Mar 2012

OMFG!: Seller Of Racist Bumper Sticker Defends Use Of The N-Word To Describe President Obama

Seller Of Racist Bumper Sticker Defends Use Of The N-Word To Describe President Obama


“Don’t Re-Nig in 2012,” reads the sticker — a not-too-subtle play on a word that invokes one of the most repulsive racial epithets to attack the country’s first black president. Yet, Smith sees absolutely nothing wrong with it, as she told Forbes:

Ms. Smith insisted that the bumper sticker is not racist. I asked her about the “N” word, for which “nig” is the shortened version. “According to the dictionary (the N word) does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/19/447096/racist-bumper-sticker/
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OMFG!: Seller Of Racist Bumper Sticker Defends Use Of The N-Word To Describe President Obama (Original Post) kpete Mar 2012 OP
And the dictionary are racist too madokie Mar 2012 #1
If one only uses the second or third definition of a word. Ms. Smith is the sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #2
There's no definition of the word that matches what she claims it means. EOTE Mar 2012 #6
I think the 2nd. definition is the one Ms. Smith is claiming she meant. sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #13
Do we know any more about Paula Smith? Fawke Em Mar 2012 #3
Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has a company called Stickatude.com. rfranklin Mar 2012 #8
Here's their paintball location... rfranklin Mar 2012 #10
Hmmmm... the family and I were thinking Fawke Em Mar 2012 #14
If customers come from all over the world, they have to be multicultural. tpsbmam Mar 2012 #17
Actually, a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person sounds like the perfect definition.... Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2012 #4
She is so fucking stupid she thinks skin color is a nationality... rfranklin Mar 2012 #5
I would expect nothing more from the person who made the bumper sticker in the first place. yardwork Mar 2012 #7
When I looked up the definition of "Paula Smith" in MY dictionary, it said racist idiot. PA Democrat Mar 2012 #9
For Ms. Smith's definition to be accurate... KansDem Mar 2012 #11
which contradicts the talking point that the image was photo-shopped ... zbdent Mar 2012 #12
So, by that definition the entire GOP field of Presidential candidates are ni**ers? baldguy Mar 2012 #15
disgraceful bigot fishwax Mar 2012 #16

EOTE

(13,409 posts)
6. There's no definition of the word that matches what she claims it means.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:05 PM
Mar 2012

She made that up out of whole cloth. It's not her ignorance that causes her to act as she does, it's her sickening hatred and racism. She's a racist to the core.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nigger

sinkingfeeling

(51,454 posts)
13. I think the 2nd. definition is the one Ms. Smith is claiming she meant.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:25 PM
Mar 2012

2. person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc

http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=nigger

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
3. Do we know any more about Paula Smith?
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:01 PM
Mar 2012

She certainly needs some backlash (and I don't mean violently). Does she own a business? Can we find her car and affix magnetic bumper stickers that brand her a racist because "it's cute" (her words regarding this sticker)"?

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
8. Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has a company called Stickatude.com.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:08 PM
Mar 2012

The Smiths own a well known paint ball field in Hinesville — a town near Savannah. Mrs. Smith said customers come from all over the world.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/03/17/exclusive-seller-of-controversial-anti-obama-sticker-says-its-not-racist/

tpsbmam

(3,927 posts)
17. If customers come from all over the world, they have to be multicultural.
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 08:27 PM
Mar 2012

Sooooooooo, it'd be nice to let her customers know about this little not-so-multicultural-loving trait of hers. I'm sure the good ole white boys will love her more for it.....everyone else, not so much?

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
4. Actually, a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person sounds like the perfect definition....
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:02 PM
Mar 2012

...for Ms. Smith.

Welcome to the 21st Century, Ms. Smith.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
5. She is so fucking stupid she thinks skin color is a nationality...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:05 PM
Mar 2012

“And besides,” she added, “Obama is not even black. He’s got a mixture of race. It’s his choice of what his nationality is.”

That's really fucking stupid.

yardwork

(61,599 posts)
7. I would expect nothing more from the person who made the bumper sticker in the first place.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:05 PM
Mar 2012

Racist bigots always insist that they aren't racist bigots.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
11. For Ms. Smith's definition to be accurate...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:11 PM
Mar 2012

She would have had to include the adjective "white"

white nigger
A white person who does not have the typical privelages associated with white people. So he is looked down on by "normal" whites.
Chet: Hey Tad, look at Joe driving that beat up old car.
Tad: What a white nigger, my dad bought me a 30,000 dollar car when I turned 16 cause I deserved it for going to school and getting all C's.
Chet: He must be lazy unlike us. We were smart and hard working enough to be born with money and privelages.
Tad: I agree now let's go back to the frat house and date rape some drunken sorority girls.
Chet: Good Idea, that will prepare us for our future as CEO's and then Senators.


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white%20nigger

Ms. Smith was just simply being a racist...

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
12. which contradicts the talking point that the image was photo-shopped ...
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:16 PM
Mar 2012

I was wondering which dictionary this idiot got that definition from ... the dictionary of "out of my ass" ... ?

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
15. So, by that definition the entire GOP field of Presidential candidates are ni**ers?
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:29 PM
Mar 2012

I don't think that's going to fly.

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