"Does that plug into printer?"

[wolven7]

"I don't mean nigger in a disrespectful way. I mean it as a general term for Ignorant Motherfuckers. Any Body of any Race can be an ignorant motherfucker."

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[momentai.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to get folsk to see that for years.

Niggers are not racially exclusive.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

[wacko1138.livejournal.com]

It's a shame Patti Smith's definition never caught on.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know that one, actually.

[wacko1138.livejournal.com]

Choice bit of lyric from her song Rock N Roll Niogger:

Jimi Hendrix was a nigger.
Jesus Christ and Grandma, too.
Jackson Pollock was a nigger.
Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,
nigger, nigger, nigger.

Outside of society, they're waitin' for me.
Outside of society, if you're looking,
that's where you'll find me.

And then her explanation (This is a bit long, but I need to get to work so no time to find a shorter version):

"Take a song like our Rock 'N' Roll Nigger, for instance. Consciously, I was trying to give a new meaning to an old word whose meaning had become unacceptable. It's like the word 'punk'. When I was a small girl, 'punk' was a very negative term. If you called someone a punk it meant that they were stupid, or a jerk. Then, in America at least, in the Seventies, punk translated into something very intelligent and very philosophical. I'm not talking about the trappings and the clothing, but the actual meaning of the word. Whoever invented the punk movement -- which certainly wasn't myself -- shifted the old meaning.

I remember quite clearly, in 1977, when I had fractured my neck and was out of action for a while, some young people from CBGBs dropped by with a magazine to show to me. They'd put me on the cover as their get-well present to me, and the magazine was called Punk. And I said, 'What d'you want to call a magazine "Punk" for? It's such a stupid word -- it means like an asshole.' And they said, 'No, no, no, it's changed.' And that's what I was trying to do with the word 'nigger' -- to turn it into a label you had to earn, like a positive badge." (from here

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Hm. Nice.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

I love posting unrelated comments in your entries sometimes... Too often things remind me of something I'd tell you that either you or I are not on AIM for me to say.

Today it's a quote that'll maybe help you feel better about your thesis~

"Today, when graduate students ask me whether they should choose a 'safe' topic or a topic that they're really interested in, I point out that 'safe' topics are probably safe because they've already been thoroughly researched. If I'd chosen a safe topic, I might still be studying that safe -- boring -- topic."
-Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I like that. That's exactly what I felt when I was getting into Grad School.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I expected so.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

:)