Democrat Sharpton denounces Democrat Maloney for using bad word

There is a word in the English language that we can't use here.

No, it's not the eight-letter barnyard epithet. No, it's none of the four-letter naughties that might come into your mind if you are a foul-mouthed, -minded sinner who's going to the four-letter bad place in the afterlife.

It's a six-letter racial epithet for African Americans that's so bad only African Americans can use it.

And Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who is not African American, seems to have been caught crossing into that forbidden linguistic territory by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is African American.

The six-letter gaffe has its roots in New York Gov. David Paterson, who is African American, last year not selecting Caroline Kennedy, who isn't an African American, but instead picking upstate Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, who isn't an African American, as the Senate replacement for Hillary Clinton, who isn't an African American.

You should know that all of these characters belong to an eight-letter political party that begins with D.

Maloney thought she was politically senior, savvier and smarter and would be a better Senate selection, despite also not being African American.

Unlike Gillibrand, Maloney's House district (14th) is in populous downstate New York, which historically produces more successful statewide candidacies.

In fact, Maloney's district is Manhattan's Upper East Side, an area that is so uber-wealthy and intelligent that residents choose to cram themselves into high-priced apartment buildings so they can hear toilets flush on other floors.

Well, Maloney's feelings have been festering. So much so that despite urgings against the move by the African American governor, among others, she's announced a primary challenge to Gillibrand for the statewide seat in next year's elections.

In a telephone interview with a New York website, Maloney -- attempting to denigrate her fellow party member's candidacy -- recounted somebody else's alleged characterization of something Gillibrand might have said in Puerto Rico about English-only.

Sharpton, who not coincidentally is supporting Gillibrand and not Maloney, somehow found an e-mail and fax machine to issue a statement calling attention to Maloney's alleged use of the forbidden word that only African Americans can use.

And today Maloney issued an apology for repeating "a word I find disgusting."

Just before a big fundraiser to be attended by a seven-letter ex-president whose wife's appointment to the Cabinet of the first African American president created the Senate vacancy the two women are feuding over now.

-- Andrew (seven-letter last name here)

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Photo: Office of Rep. Maloney

Comments

[J Richardson]

Until I read the linked article and Wikipedia, I didn't know that Carolyn Maloney was a native of my hometown, Greensboro, North Carolina. Of all people, she should know not to use the "N-word" anytime, any where, any how.

Greensboro is the site of the first major sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter as well as home to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's alma mater, NC A&T State University.

What a moron!

[steve rodriguez]

I wish I could play the "race card" every time I disagree or am upset with someone!

[steve rodriguez]

She's obviously a racist, just like all those who disagree with Obama are! Obama has the complexion to get the protection!

[Mike]

She wasn't directing a slur at anyone else, she was repeating something someone else told her. Are we in 3rd grade that we can't even hear the word?

Should Mark Twain's Huckleberry FInn be banned and burned because it uses the word?

That she apologized for this is over the top PC nonsense.

[jch]

OK........Who gives a damn what Al "Tawana Brawley" "Where's My Gubment Check" Sharpton Thinks? We all know who the real racist is. JCH

[Don L]

My favorite on this topic was in overhearing (years ago) two black teens arguing until the heat of the debate caused one to call the other the "N" word, whereupon the recipiant retorted by calling hima a "d_ mned Mau, Mau!"

[CJ Casey]

Personally, I refuse to say "The 'N-Word,'" or "The 'C-Word,'" for that matter. I don't go around using either of those words, or any other racial or sexist slurs, but if I'm repeating something someone said, I'll say either word. "'N-Word'" is censorship, pure and simple, and censorship is what someone in a superior position does to 'protect' someone he or she believes is inferior. In other words, a white person saying "N-word" is telling a black person "Oh, you people can't handle hearing it, and are too stupid to understand if someone is being racist or not, so I'm just going to look out for you."

[steve rodriguez]

Sharpton has made a good living playing the "race card!"
Why doesn't he help minority to people learn personal responsibility self-worth and only themselves can keep them down!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Magnum]

Sooo ... if I sing certain karaoke songs by Ice Cube, Ice Tea or even NWA (something with attitude), I'm a racist.

[Frank Vozenilek]

You know Mr. Malcolm, I'm white and male, and I'm sick to death of the throwing this racial trump card by the likes of trash like Al Sharpton, Kanya West, even Woopi-friggin'-Goldberg, Chris What's-his-name and so many others.
Carlos Mencia and George Lopez even are getting so free and easy at SLAMMING any white person they can OPENLY AND FREELY! Yet where are the FCC, states and federal Attorneys General, FBI, state and local police agencies, and ESPECIALLY that STALWART DEFENDER OF THE PUBLIC TRUST, THE ACLU, AND the REV AL SHARPTON when these OBVIOUS RACIST ATTACK DOGS are, "getting away with [verbal] murder?"
Michael Richards, of TV's "Seinfeld" was all but crucified for his reaction to being heckled by several Blacks who IN FACT RUDELY INTERRUPTED HIS PERFORMANCE WITH LOUD, INCONSIDERATE BEHAVIOR! And were NEVER called on their provocative actions. Yet Richards' career has all but been destroyed.
On several websites over the past few weeks are listed no less than 7 UNPROVOKED attacks by Blacks on white FAMILIES with the attackers chanting things like, "It's our world now."
Two questions. How much longer do whites have to tolerate the instigating action of TRASH like SHARPTON? And . . . How long before AMERICAN!! LEADERSHIP (Black, White, Hispanic, Asian and Indian) SEE what's happening, get off their collective butts and take action against this pile of bull-crap garbage an lead by example by challenging and stifling these RACIST pigs who running amok in our nation?