Kerry uses racist term “Tar Baby” to characterize McCain attack
Leave to your pal Snoop to remind y’all about the last time a Republican used the term.
Must be a Massachusetts thing, hell after all Boston and much of New England is one of the more racist areas in the country.
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Responding to a question about the rights of divorced fathers during a town hall meeting in Cedar Falls, Iowa, today, John McCain said that he wouldn’t want to interfere in the decisions of divorce courts because doing so would be “getting into a tar baby of enormous proportions.”
Random House notes that “tar baby” is “used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people” and that “some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.” At a press conference after today’s town hall event, McCain said: “I don’t think I should have used that word. And I was wrong to do so.”
The Arizona senator isn’t the first Republican presidential candidate to use — and then apologize for using — the term. Mitt Romney was forced to apologize last summer after using it to describe a troubled highway project. Tony Snow also used the term in his very first White House press conference. Later, he said that he’d take “tar baby” out of his “toolchest of rhetorical devices” even though he thought people who consider the term racist just don’t understand “a hundred and fifty years of American culture.”
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July 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Dude.
Kerry sucks and I would gladly help him under a truck - but I have NEVER heard ‘tar-baby’ used outside of the Uncle Remus context.
Br’er Rabbit socked one in the nose and got hisself all stuck.
- MuscleDaddy
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
how is it racist? i don’t get it. what is a tar baby when it is racist? like a black baby? haha i really don’t know???? :(
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
oh wait i just read the random house defintion, but that still doesn’t make sense. i’m gonna watch the video now.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:42 am
“Tar baby” is a situation in which any and all attempts to extricate yourself result in getting more stuck. I’ve never once thought of it as a “racist” term. Just because tar is black, and black people are . . . well, brown, mostly . . . I don’t get it. Maybe I’m too damned literate to get the supposedly “racist” overtones . . .