"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

Not a fan of Disney eh?




In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact.

Story

In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a doll out of a lump of tar and dresses it with some clothes. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the tar "baby" amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as the Tar Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and in doing so becomes stuck. The more Br'er Rabbit punches and kicks the tar "baby" out of rage, the worse he gets stuck. Now that Br'er Rabbit is stuck, Br'er Fox ponders how to dispose of him. The helpless, but cunning, Br'er Rabbit pleaRAB, "but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch," prompting Fox to do exactly that. As rabbits are at home in thickets, the resourceful Br'er Rabbit escapes. Using the phrases "but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch" and "tar baby" to refer to the idea of "a problem that gets worse the more one struggles against it" became part of the wider culture of the United States in the mid-20th century.[citation needed] The story was originally published in Harper's Weekly by Robert Roosevelt; years later Joel Chandler Harris wrote of the tar baby in his Uncle Remus stories. A similar tale from African folklore in West Africa has the trickster Anansi in the role of Br'er Rabbit.
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/niggardly
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niggardly
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/niggardly

Die.
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

It probably didn't help that the original tar baby was drawn to look like a darker Little Black Sarabo.

And you said it your self - it wasn't about dark skinned people "until it became a race thing. That is the key. It became a race thing, hence it is a race thing now, whether we agree or not. And I can't see how anyone would have such an attachment to either tar baby or niggardly to push back about it, other than to create a situation over which you can rail against P.C.
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

That has nothing to do with implying the usage of the word 'niggardly' is only frowned upon because of political correctness.
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

I agree, especially in the case of the term "black hole." There is nothing remotely racist about that term, except that the word black is paired with the word hole, which can have a negative connotation. Its a stretch, but it can be done. But what if you were addressing the D.C. School Board about their financial situation and said that they were "in the black"? What then?
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

And I said right up front I was unaware of it.


You, on the other hand, are constantly a fool. Tell us more of how e-tuff you are, shooting unarmed people and pretending you aren't a massive wimp.
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

Rich old white Democrats, who harken back to their KKK days.

(oops- and RINOs. Can't forget about racist McWar)
 
"It’s like touching a tar baby ..."

c.1300, “niggardly person” (see niggard). As an abbreviated form of nigger, attested by c.1832, Amer.Eng.

Die yourself.
 
"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

No you didn't.

You ASSumed you knew all about it, then when I presented you with the facts, you said "Interestingly, I was unaware of that." Now you're lying about the facts of the prior discussion.

You really are pathetic.




Niggardly WASN'T "made up to reinforce a racist concept." that has been shown all throughout this thread to be false.

And yet here you sit, LYING once again and calling other people idiots for knowing information YOU don't know about and had to be educated on.
 
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