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Titolo: which part of "nappy-headed hos" is a racist slur?

Is it the nap?
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 Is it the nap?
Cos'è "hos"?
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 Cos'č "hos"?
Abbreviazione fonetica di "whores".
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 Cos'è "hos"?
È slang per dire putana (whores). 'Nappy-headed' tratta dei capelli degli 
afro-americani. 

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Ah ok, grazie a entrambi.
In tal caso "nappy headed" nel suo insieme dovrebbe essere il racist
slur...
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It's also "ho", which originated in the black community.
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 It's also "ho", which originated in the black community.
Thanks, everybody.
I tried webster's online dictionary for nappy and nappy-headed but to 
no avail.
For the record, that was the term that cost Don Imus the cancelling of 
his radio show on MSNBC.
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Peltio
che trova intraducibile il termine in italiano.
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 che trova intraducibile il termine in italiano.
"quelle *occole con matasse di **rda al posto dei capelli"? :-)))
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Ridiculously, it's all over the news media here in NY. His 30-year career may 
be over.
Once there was a concept. "Freedom of Speech" it was called.
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 radio show on MSNBC.
To clarify the record, the cancellation was only a two-week suspension... at 
this point. 

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"Nappy" is used by both whites and blacks to describe the type of hair
common to most blacks. It is not a slur, and there have been books by black
authors which contain the word in their titles.
http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Be-Nappy-Jump-Sun/dp/0786804270
"Ho", originally an abbreviation of "whore", is common in hip-hop and rap
music. It is so common that it has become a synonym for woman in that
misogynist community.
Don Imus, who was recently suspended from his radio program, and whose daily
simulcast on MSNBC has been canceled, has often used the phrase "Green ho"
to describe his own wife, who is involved in the "Greening and Cleaning"
company which manufactures environmentally safe cleaning products. No one
complained when he called his wife a "ho", so there is an element of
inconsistency and hypocrisy in the controversy surrounding his remarks about
the Rutgers basketball players.
Joe from Massachusetts
Joe from Massachusetts

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The latest is that most of his advertisers have pulled out. NBC news has 
dropped the show permanently (at this point) and although CBS is sticking to 
its original two-week suspension, there are to be on-going discussions with 
the parties involved. Without advertisers, it looks like it might be the end.
I'm not a fan of his (nor do I dislike him; I just don't listen) but I do 
object to the dissolution of his freedom to speak on the radio.
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 the Rutgers basketball players.
Joe, ma quante ne sai? :-)
Grazie, questo getta una luce piů chiara sulla faccenda.
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I know that two of them are Catholic School girls from the Bronx, where I
once resided, and one is from Bergen Couny, NJ, where I also once resided.
:>)
All of the games which the University of Connecticut women's basketball team
plays are televised in Connecticut (very few of the men's games are
televised), and my cable system carries the PBS channel which carries these
games. UConn is in the same intercollegiate league as Rutgers, and the teams
play two or three times each year. Since my wife is a UConn fan, we end up
watching most of the games, and we are familiar with the teams.
There was a very interesting documentary about Coach C. Vivian Stringer of
Rutgers and her team on the PBS network several years ago.
http://www.pbs.org/thisisagame/season/final_four.htm
Joe from Massachusetts