U.S. Congressman issues an insincere apology to Obama for referring to him as a "tar baby"

U.S. Congressman apologizes (insincerely) to Obama for referring to him as a "tar baby"

He issued an apology for using a term that "SOME find insensitive,” thus implying that many people find it completely appropriate, and that he himself found nothing at all offensive about using the term tar baby to refer to any black man, let alone the President of the United States.

By the way, those "some" he referred to include the editors/authors of the OED: "a derogatory term for a Black (U.S.) or a Maori (N.Z.)"

Ask your black friends how they feel about this term. You can bet they've all heard it, along with many similar terms. Here are the synonyms for tar baby at the Urban Dictionary: nigger, porch monkey, coon, spook, jungle bunny, jigaboo, spear chucker ...

And so on.

Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor get into the matter:



Gosh, I guess I have to issue an apology for calling this congressman an ignorant drooling racist cracker. Those are terms that "some" might find offensive. Especially if they are ignorant drooling racist crackers.

They say that in democracy you get the government you deserve. So I guess we deserve Mr Tar Baby, Anthony Weiner, Mr Macaca, Duke Cunningham, William Jefferson, Blago, and more.

Scary, isn't it?