We're not sure what "dictionary" Miz Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia, "reads," but she clearly has Knowledge on her side when she says the n-word "is not racist." Roger Friedman of Forbes got Miz Smith on the tallyphone to ask her why her company, Stickatude, has been selling some perhaps-inelegant bumper stickers that have doubtless been enlivening your MyFace page all week. “According to the dictionary," she told him, "[the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.”
How else is "Don't Re-Nig" not even racist?
“And besides Obama is not even black. He’s got a mixture of race. It’s his choice of what his nationality is. I’m a mixed breed. I call myself a Heinz 57,” she says, referring to an ancestry that’s part of French, Scottish, and German.
There you have it. Logic!
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“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it.”
That lady sounds nice. Let's all spend the rest of the morning in a nice, quiet, darkened place, maybe with a nice cool cloth on our eyes, thinking about how nice that lady sounds. Nice. [ Forbes ]
We can always dream...
Rice?