Quote of The Day

[andrewducker]

So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the n***er!"

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the n***er."

Cheers to miss_s_b for passing on the quote and the link to its origin.

Edit:
What I find particularly interesting is that (a)there are people still out there who will use the word 'nigger' without even thinking whether it might be offensive and (b) those people are actually perfectly happy to vote for Barack Obama. Which means that American attitudes towards race are altogether more complex than you might have thought...

Comments

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

My mum basically votes for who my dad votes for, same with older generations of women in my family.

As for the dreaded 'n' word, I don't think it shows race hate, as others seem to suggest. Again, to cite my family and their friends, many use words which I'm sure lots of people who read this would be offended by - paki, poof, nigger, etc. They seem to use them because they really don't see why they're offensive. Yes, they're not used on tv, but they're used among their contemporaries and they see people being offended by language alone as a soft, middle-class affectation.

I ain't saying it's right, but I am saying it happens. It depends which circles you move in, I suppose.