Nappy Headed Hos

Before we all fly completely off the handle--as many already have--about the comment Imus made about a black girls basketball team, a bit of research into what the actual phrase "nappy headed hos" may really mean.

WEBSTER'S SEVENTH:

nappy \'nap-e\n [obs. nappy adj. (foaming) chiefly scot : LIQUOR; specif: ALE

ho \'ho\ interj -- used esp. to attract attention to something specified.

A literal translation would then be something like: "A foamy head! Look!"

Yeah, you bet. However...

"Nappy headed" nowadays is a kind of PC phrase used to describe how an "afro" hairdo sort of froths over the head, sort of like the head on a really foamy beer.

"Hos" nowadays is a slang for whores, a term employed endlessly by rap and hip-hop "artists", and is a term created and used primarily in the black community.

So, if the offending element in the "nappy headed hos" comment isn't "nappy headed", it must be "hos".

Says Pat Buchanan:

If the word "hos" is a filthy insult to decent black women, and it is, why are hip-hop artists and rap singers who use it incessantly not pariahs in the black community? Why would black politicians hobnob with them? Why are there no boycotts of the advertisers of the radio stations that play their degrading music?

Answer: The issue here is not the word Imus used. The issue is who Imus is – a white man, who used a term about black women only black folks are permitted to use with impunity and immunity.

Whatever Imus' sins, no one deserves to have Al Sharpton – hero of the Tawana Brawley hoax, resolute defender of the fake rape charge against half a dozen innocent guys, which ruined lives – sit in moral judgment upon them.

I listen to the idiot twits on CNNCBSNBC talk of the "Crime" Imus committed. Just what crime would that be? Imus did not break any laws or commit any crime. He just mouthed off at the wrong time and the wrong place.

The real issue here is that Imus used a term in common usage by blacks, and being white, committed some sort of racial sin, crossed a white/black line no white man is allowed to step over, and has given race-baiting blacks like Sharpton a brand new soap box to climb up on a babble away.

Blacks have taken the apparent high ground on this issue, thanks to Imus. But they don't belong there. Until blacks decide to police their own people over using disparaging and insulting references about their women, they need to shut the hell up about anybody else.

Like Buchanan says:

"The hypocrisy here was too thick to cut with a chainsaw."

No kidding. The man apologized. that should have been the end of it.