When you turn into a black man who was born in Harlem, whose first memories were of Nigeria and first river, the Niger Delta, and raised in Brooklyn, maybe the people asking me to changemy name would have a leg to stand on.
Oh yeah, you're not that person, that person is me. If you have a problem with the name Niger, Nigeria, talk to the countries if you choose to be overly politically correct. And if you think my name is questionable ask me where its origins are from.It's ironic considering there are people quick to asking me to change my name on a website called the Young Turks even when they KNOW the historical background of the Young Turks Party's hand in promoting the Armenian genocide. Yet listeners realize that this is not the same name Cenk is referencing with the website's name.
Likewise don't assume you have a clue on how my name is pronounced or its background without asking me. At no point did I say anything racially tinged or insensitive. No, what I have are mainly non-black people telling me that NIGER is offensive. No- you're offensive, your assumptions offend me.
Don't worry about it.
Heh heh, at first I misread that as "well-known right wigger." Then I had a humorous vision of Ken as a scrawny, white, suburban teenager, running around the mean streets of Texas in oversized Sean-Johns and a du-rag, saying "yo" and "dog."
I have got to stop coming here. What passes for humor here is killing me. My antacid expenses are going through the roof.
"No, you are a paid blogger assigned to counter anyone that posts something negative about the government or Obama." by Mcamelyne II on 05/17/2011
