A roadmaking machine that lays tar might reasonably be referred to by its proud owners as a "tar baby", one might think. And putting up a pictorial representation of the name in the form of a black baby would seem to be doing no damage to anyone. But the "sensitive" brigade have called it "a horrible racial slur". Apparently it is wrong to suggest that blacks have black babies. So the machine has now had a repaint job. Details here.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Another "Tar Baby"
A roadmaking machine that lays tar might reasonably be referred to by its proud owners as a "tar baby", one might think. And putting up a pictorial representation of the name in the form of a black baby would seem to be doing no damage to anyone. But the "sensitive" brigade have called it "a horrible racial slur". Apparently it is wrong to suggest that blacks have black babies. So the machine has now had a repaint job. Details here.
A roadmaking machine that lays tar might reasonably be referred to by its proud owners as a "tar baby", one might think. And putting up a pictorial representation of the name in the form of a black baby would seem to be doing no damage to anyone. But the "sensitive" brigade have called it "a horrible racial slur". Apparently it is wrong to suggest that blacks have black babies. So the machine has now had a repaint job. Details here.
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