{"id":2006,"date":"2007-01-12T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/there_oughta_be_a_law_or_at_least_a_resolution_calling_for_a_symbolic_moratorium.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:31:47","slug":"there_oughta_be_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/there_oughta_be_2.html","title":{"rendered":"There Oughta Be A Law . . . Or At Least A Resolution Calling For A Symbolic Moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you get 51 people together, more than a few dumb ideas will slip through<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democrat Leroy Comrie is so disgusted by the rampant use of the racial epithet that he has submitted a resolution to the Council calling for the “symbolic moratorium on the use of the N-word in New York City.”<\/p>\n

“Stop using the N-word,” Comrie (D-Jamaica) demanded yesterday. “It’s racist, it’s negative, it’s demeaning. It boils my blood, the usage, even in a personal tone between people.”<\/p>\n

Comrie said the resolution will be formally introduced to the Council Feb. 1, the first day of Black History Month.<\/p>\n

“The timing is right,” he said. “Monday is Martin Luther King’s birthday. February is Black History Month.”<\/p>\n

The widespread use of the N-word gained considerable attention last year during the hate-crime trial of Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci.<\/p>\n

Minucci claimed he used the slur as a friendly greeting before beating a black man with a baseball bat in Howard Beach in 2005. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Beyond the issues of the scrupulously precise wording (if this were an actual law, wouldn’t you have to write out what “N-word” you were talking about?) and the murkiness of what a “symbolic” moratorium means (not an actual moratorium?), I have to say that I had absolutely no idea people took offense to this word. Guess you learn something new every day.<\/p>\n

Earlier: What Up, My N-Word?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you get 51 people together, more than a few dumb ideas will slip through: Democrat Leroy Comrie is so disgusted by the rampant use of the racial epithet that he has submitted a resolution to the Council calling for the “symbolic moratorium on the use of the N-word in New York City.” “Stop using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}