Can't We All Just Get Along? Nope, let's outlaw some vocabulary
Yesterday, the first day of Black History Month, Queens Councilman Leroy Comrie [introduced a resolution] asking New Yorkers never to use the "n-word." Obviously, Comrie and those who support him, including Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, havent much of a legal leg to stand on (what with freedom of speech and all) but wouldnt it be nice? Some activists held up a T-shirt with the racial slur printed three times (gasp, THREE times!) within a circle with a slash through it. At least, I think it was the "n-word"it was blurred out. NY1 interviewed one Brooklyn black man, asking if he would stop using the offensive term. His response was, Sure.
Meanwhile, Sen. Joe put-his-foot-in-his-mouth Biden [made an appearance] on Rev. Al Sharptons show yesterday in an attempt to repair some of the harm hes done to his reputation in the African American community after making a well meaning, though inexplicably poorly worded statement about Barack Obama. It seems Biden had described the presidential hopeful as, "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Yeash. Sharpton opened the show by informing Biden that he bathes daily. To make amends, Biden told Sharpton that he loved him. Hopefully, he hasnt alienated the LGBT world now.