There was a dustup during last night's Selma City Council meeting over the new council president. He's Cecil Williamson, and he became President upon the death of Geraldine Alllen earlier this month. Williamson is a member of The League of The South, which the Southern Poverty Law Center brands as a racist organization.
Watch video of the dispute coming up this morning shortly after 6:00am on CBS-8 This Morning in Montgomery or online later in the day at http://www.waka.com/
[WHAT'S MORE.....The Dothan Eagle reports on a City Commissioner refusing to apologize for using the term "Negros" while referring to two members of a Community Block Grant Commitee. But hold on. The Commissioner, who is refusing to apologize, is black.]
"Negro... please!"
ReplyDeleteWe've all heard it, and likely more than once, and even on teevee entertainment serials.
Get over it.
Even the once pejorative "nigger" is used in the vernacular without any connotation once associated with Bull Connor or the KKK.
The times, they are a'changin'! And the language must adapt.
Another case in point, just last night, the word "propaganda" - now associated with negative connotations - was once good!
The trusty Online Etymology Dictionary says this about the word: propaganda -
1718, from Mod.L. propaganda, short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "congregation for propagating the faith," committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions, prop. abl. fem. gerundive of L. propagare (see propagation). Modern political sense dates from World War I, not originally pejorative.