Aunt Jemima's Revenge: Words For Warfare

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Words For Warfare

"Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs." - Maxine Waters

4 comments:

wisdomteachesme, March 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM: *smiling broadly*
:D
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalo, March 5, 2008 at 12:42 PM: Maxine, aint heard from her in a while
wisdomteachesme, March 5, 2008 at 4:30 PM: coon??? you from the south bap?
not many black people use that word to desribe black people (not here where i live)--unless they are actually going raccoon hunting. or do not know the history of the word and are using it as slang thinking it's hip--again a big mistake.
whites used it when they would kidnap a black person and take them into the woods to hunt them for sport--hence they used secret meanings--coon for black man/woman/child.
they would drag them into the woods- set them free, then drunk as they would be chase the black person through the woods and shoot at him/her till they either killed or wounded them or the person got away-which was not often.

then they would come back to the other whites and laugh about it and have a good ole time.

when black people hunt coon--they are truely hunting raccoon--not people.

maxine waters may be a lot of "things"--but i do not think of her as a coon--in fact i would not call any black person that--now i will call one an
'uncle tom' --but not some rodent animal.
Black American Princess, March 6, 2008 at 1:06 PM: "Coon" and "sellout" are synonymous to me, hence my use of the term in reference to Ms. Waters. For her to spend most of her political career fighting for black people, black women in particular, it's unfathomable to me that she would turn around and support BET and Hillary Clinton.

Coon may not be a term you use but it's one I use to describe people who sell their own people out.