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“Race is a most sensitive issue,” writes Phillip Adams. “You’ll recall the fuss in Brisbane over a grandstand named Nigger for a thus nicknamed Aboriginal football player.”
Wrong and wrong, Phillip. The player was white and the grandstand isn’t in Brisbane:
His real name was Edward Stanley Brown, and in Toowoomba he was admired for playing in the 1921 Kangaroos rugby league side. He was better known by his nick-name, “Nigger”, which apparently he got as a child because he had fair skin and blonde hair. And in the late 1960s, a grandstand at Toowoomba’s Athletic Oval was named in his honour, the E.S. Nigger-Brown Stand.
Here’s another ABC report, from 1999. Adams should pay some attention to our fine national broadcaster.
(Via Clark G., who comments: “Perhaps he just didn’t want the facts to get in the way of good story. Wouldn’t be the first time. Won’t be the last.”)
Apart from the reference to Niggerboy steel wool (which is not a toponym), the bit about about the E.S,“Nigger” Brown stand was about the only original idea in the whole article. The rest appears to be lifted from a precis of the Monmonier’s book as can be seen on the University of Chicago press site.
Does anyone know why Phil is held in awe by some sections of the community? The man is as sloppy and biased as they come, and his writing. is. just. so. damn. tedious.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 08 12 at 06:46 AM • permalinkTedious. Good word.
By the way, Steven Hagan, the fool in Toowoomba who led the charge to change the name of the ‘Nigger’ Brown Stand (and also wanted the name of Coon cheese changed), he even went to the Hague Court, was awarded the “Person of the Year” award at NAIDOC.
You’d think that he’d focus more on actually helping the drunks, domestic violence abusers, child abusers, petrol sniffers, wife beaters, child rapists, and so on, rather than persuing this crap across the world. And he got an award for it?
Activist? Is that a pseudonym for fucktard?
Baaaaah!
#2 - The rest appears to be lifted from a precis of the Monmonier’s book as can be seen on the University of Chicago press site.
Makes a change from lifting articles from the New York Review of Books, which Prof Bunyip picked him on on regularly.
Speaking of Bunyip - he hasn’t posted since May when he hinted at domestic travails. He’s missed.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 08 12 at 08:31 AM • permalinkMeanwhile Stateside, there is a constant attack on sports teams named in honor of the warlike qualities of Native Americans. Ironically, these attacks are seldom made by the offspring of warlike Native Americans, but rather by clueless offspring of their 19th century adversaries.
Same holds true for any geographical feature named “Squaw”, as in Squaw Valley, Mountain etc. Squaw is a double hatespeak thoughtcrime because it supposedly denigrates Red Indians and “womyn”.
Segregation is once again rampant (except now it comes under a more sinister guise), with uni’s featuring Black-only dorms and separate graduation ceremonies. This after a hundred year, often violent, fight to end segregation.
That all of these trends are leftist inspired should not go unnoticed. I am proud to say that in the evil, racist, oppressive US military, your skin color doesn’t mean shit, whether you are the CO or the third butter cutter.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 12 at 11:59 AM • permalinkHe was better known by his nick-name, “Nigger”, which apparently he got as a child because he had fair skin and blonde hair.
Huh??
I was accepted at Beaver, Ushie, but didn’t attend. Apropos to nothing, Joe Namath hails from Beaver PA.
Segregation is once again rampant (except now it comes under a more sinister guise), with uni’s featuring Black-only dorms and separate graduation ceremonies. This after a hundred year, often violent, fight to end segregation.
And, along those same lines, how come cultural diversity, deemed so critical to a successful, well-rounded college experience that it must, if necessary, be induced by artifical means like affirmative action and quotas, is not the least bit important for those students matriculating on all black campuses?
I do relish the hour I spend in Deadwood on Sunday nights. Such a respite from political correctness.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 12 at 04:54 PM • permalinkA South Australian parliamentarian was keel-hauled for using the phrase ‘nigger in the woodpile’ some years ago. It’s an old American expression anyway, but censorship comes naturally to the Left.
“Race is a most sensitive issue” writes Phillip Adams
Adamski should read that 1946 book Macbeth Lane read, to learn how sensitive their parents’ generation, which they denounce regularly, in fact was, and how boneheadedly biased and conceited they are.Janice, other reasons for being called ‘Lightning’; if you don’t know how to conduct yourself, or if you can’t get an axe blade to hit a piece of wood in the same place twice.
As well as having humorous overtones, such names reduce the sting and make them more acceptable to the person getting the nickname.
Even when they are applied accurately (eg, ‘Shorty’ = vertically challenged) they lack venom and are more acceptable to the recipient.
The reason I am called ‘Skeeter’ is because of my very skinny legs. I was also called ‘Lucky Legs’—I was considered lucky that they didn’t break off and stick through me.In my area there is a Big Beaver Road, which a few years ago was shut down for repairs. This led to the excellent headline:
“Big Beaver to Open Wednesday”
I’m sure there was a lot of excitement.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 08 12 at 09:12 PM • permalinkRegarding place names, I’m surprised no-one’s changed the name of the stretch of water between Kangaroo Island and the South Australian mainland - Backstairs Passage. Well, its was named by Matthew Flinders.
Posted by David Morgan on 2006 08 13 at 12:13 AM • permalinkFor something like 70 years there was a toothpaste sold in Thailand quaintly called “Darkie”. The packet had a smiling black face on it, with sparkling white teeth. It probably originated in the USA. Most Thais of course had no idea what the word meant, let alone the connotations. However, in recent time, probably due to some officious busybody farang, the name waas changed to “Darlie”. It still sells just as well.
People, please!!! Phat tried to venture away from his favourite subjects (Bush, Blair and HoWARd, religion) which he recycles most weeks. This carefully orchestrated reuse of themes is presumably tolerated by his management. To venture into uncharted waters is obviously heroic. What? You don’t agree?
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Surely you have heard of “rowdy”: the quietest
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you know it makes sense.?????[W]hich apparently he got as a child because he had fair skin and blonde hair.
No, this has to be a name-based nickname, like “Chalky” White or “Rusty” Brown.
Or “Dusty” Rhodes, to give an inescapable example.
It happens that “[N-word]-brown” was once the name of a color, (colour, rather, it’s a British/Australian expression) the same as pea-green is the name of a colour, or brick-red.
John Derbyshire says that in his youth, the uniform for a local girls school came in two colors “sky blue and [N-word]brown.”
Here’s anan old school prospectus(no date, but pre-1970)which applies the deplorable adjective to coats, hats, and pinafores.
Oddly, the expression was used recently in a medical journal article from Yunnan, China. I expect the all-Chinese authors have enough to do working in a second language, without doing Western PC.
Posted by James Fulford on 2006 08 13 at 11:36 AM • permalinkI never use the word quite frankly. It does not pass easily past my lips. It’s open use is nowadays limited to black rappers and their admirers. Any use by white bigots has been rightfully relegated to dark corners of society where the few that are left whisper it to each other and giggle. Can we move on or will our guilt-minders on the Left not let us?
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 13 at 01:42 PM • permalink
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Now Sydney University named Phillip Adams as Australia’s number one intellectual when they gave him a Phd in 2005. Now is there any more proof required that Australia is an intellectual desert.