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Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has a company called Stickatude.com. And theyre selling their own version of an anti-Obama bumper sticker that reads Dont Re-Nig 2012. Ms. Smith told me in a telephone conversation on Saturday afternoon that the bumper sticker has been in their inventory since June 2010, but just in the last few days its started selling. The price is $3. 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. Thats what the N word means.In Websters New Collegiate Dictionary, the word is defined as member of any dark skinned race. Taken to be offensive. Dictionary.com says the word is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense.
Ms. Smith who has an affable disposition and a hearty laughsaid she thought the website was dead and up until recently none of her bumper stickers was selling at all. Another site, called Stumpys Stickers, was originally credited with selling the Obama sticker. Ms. Smith says however she doesnt own that site and didnt know anything about it. She said Stumpys Stickers could have linked to their site, but she didnt sell them any that they could have re-sold. Where did Ms. Smith find the sticker in the first place? We just found it on the internet, and thought it was cute. Its been up there since hes been president.
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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. Ms. Smith said she is not racist, she just wants Obama out of office. She tells me she doesnt have a preferred replacement candidate. And besides Obama is not even black. Hes got a mixture of race. Its his choice of what his nationality is. Im a mixed breed. I call myself a Heinz 57, she says, referring to an ancestry thats part of French, Scottish, and German.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/03/17/exclusive-seller-of-controversial-anti-obama-sticker-says-its-not-racist/
quinnox
(20,600 posts)from hicksville town, selling racist bumper sticker, no of course she isn't racist.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Ho ho ho.....it's all good.
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)French, Scottish and German = Heinz 57
O'Bama must be Irish!
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)someone actually said that to me in 2008. outside of skinheads and the few remaining kkkers who aren't undercover FBI agents I don't think most racist think of themselves as such.
benld74
(9,904 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)That would have completed the picture.
richmwill
(1,326 posts)...One of the co-hosts was being accused of racism by one of their guests- a comedian who came in to plug his upcoming show, I believe. The host actually said- and I'm not kidding- "I'm not racist- The woman who lived upstairs from me in my apartment building a couple of years ago was black!".
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I'd call her a cross-bred, POS, racist, skank!
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)oh wait, that's right. Racists only spew that #+*! from under a sheet, behind a keyboard, or from behind a police barricade set up to protect their sorry asses.
She'll get what she has coming...