Tuesday,
April 17, 2007
"I like Nappy Headed Hos" ---You Got a Problem With
That???
The
ANNOTICO Report
No
More Mr. Nice Guy!!!! No More Ignoring or Tolerating Slurs vs. Italians!!!
Neither
Am I being "Politically Correct" UNTIL we ALL Demand and Expect
EQUAL "Politically Correctness" For ALL!!!!
AND,
I'm not "curbing" my Tongue anymore either. Being NICE, and or
setting a good Example that hasn't worked for 100 years.
Therefore,
Nigger, Ho , Kike, Bitch, Slant Eyed, Wet Back, etc, Step aside here
comes a Son of the Three Great Epochs (Magna Grecia,
Rome, and the Renaissance) that laid the foundation for Western Civilization.
We
are Not going to take it anymore!!!!!!!
Maybe
if we give them a taste of their own medicine, they will take Notice!!!!!
If
THEY expect Respect, THEY Need to GIVE Respect.
You
don't agree??? Well then come up with a better idea because none of the ones
you've used so far have worked. :(
Some
Ethnic Slurs Are More Equal Than Others
The
Bulletin,
By:
Michael P. Tremoglie, author of "A Sense Of Duty"
Tuesday,
April 17, 2007
The
Don Imus incident has illustrated that the
Orwellian world of political correctness is a complicated one.
This
world contains an unwritten hierarchy where some ethnic slurs are acceptable
and others are not.
This
is particularly apparent in the behavior world of the mainstream media.
For radio, TV or print, it is perfectly acceptable for writers or broadcasters to
demean certain ethnic groups, yet dreadful to demean others.
One group that is acceptable to slur are Italian-Americans. The Order of the
Sons of Italy of America (OSIA) and the National Italian-American Federation
(NIAF) maintain databases of examples of slurs against Italian-Americans made
by journalists and others. These slurs, however, were not reported by liberal
organizations that monitor the media for bigotry.
So, in the interest of doing what liberal "watchdog" groups have not
done - and because I am of Sicilian descent - what follows is a list of some
more vitriolic remarks about Italian-Americans. All of these examples are
quotes taken (some verbatim) from the Web sites of OSIA and NIAF (all emphasis
added):
* (Speaking of Don Imus) During the Nov. 2, 2 005 Don
Imus show, his Executive Producer Bernard McGuirk, who initiated the conversation about the Rutgers
women's basketball team, called Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito
a "meatball sucking wop."
* Reporting on Italy's recent World Cup victory, New York Times sports writer
George Vecsey noted, "I love the blue uniform,
the merry anthem ... and even the occasional hit men who play for the Azzurri."
* David Letterman's July 28, 2006 opening monologue, plugged the movie
"Miami Vice" with the comment, "I have a part ...
. I play a pimp named
* During the Jan. 18, 2006 nationally televised PBS news program, "The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) commented, "Having (Republican) Senator (Rick)
Santorum talk about [lobbying] reform is like having John Gotti
talk about doing something about organized crime ..."
* Nationally syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant drew a cartoon featuring Vice
President Dick Chene y and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on a hunting expedition. Scalia was depicted
with all the nuances of the stereotypical mobster - holding a machine gun. The
Washington Post failed to publish a letter to the editor co-authored by
leadership of NIAF, OSIA and UNICO (another Italian-American organization)
expressing their outrage about the cartoon that the paper published.
* Chicago Tribune reporter Clarence Page, an African-American, wrote a May 6,
2001 column praising the originality and excellent writing of the TV show
"The Sopranos" with no mention of its denigration of
Italian-Americans.
* The Spring 2002 edition of the NIAF Web site mentioned that co-hosts Craig
and Blain of "The Sports Guys," a WNEW-AM,
* This same edition of the NIAF website mentioned that the Warner Bros. Rosie
O'Donnell Web site, www.rosie.com asked for people to e-mail Rosie their
encounters with "Italian Waitresses from Hell."
* Star 93.7 radio in Boston in 2004 played the offensive song, "The Twelve
Days of
There are more examples, however, they would be
pointless. The idea is that slurring and stereotyping Italian-Americans is
acceptable. One has to wonder why it is that insults against Jewish-Americans,
African-Americans, Chinese-Americans (Rosie O'Donnell also targets this race)
are not acceptable, while similar terms used to describe Italian-Americans are?
Why does the double standard exist? Why should any double standard exist in
journalism?
If certain organizations (like liberal media watchdog groups) are going to
claim that ethnic slurs are hate speech and should be banned from the public
square, then they should be consistent about it.
But maybe hate speech isn't really their target. What they want to do is ban
political speech that dissents from the liberal party line.
Claiming someone or some group of people is "racist" is an old ploy
to silence the political opposition. It is a way to circumvent the First
Amendment. In this context, hate speech becomes any speech the group in control
does not like.
This is dangerous.
Because it puts
Such a world would be a protean place where the laws change according to who
happens to be in control at any given time. And, that is the working definition
of a totalitarian world.
Michael P. Tremoglie is the author of A Sense Of Duty, available on Amazon.com. He can be reached at mtremoglie@thebulletin.us
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