That is just ridiculous.
Why isn't the term "parent" offensive. Oh, because you all actually belong to that "parent" organization. Wait, maybe the union practice of calling people "brother" and "sister" is a sub-rosa appropriation of Black English by the Labor Left that has been a secret fount of racism all these years.
How about you don't like the article and what the President of your International said and leave it at that. There are a lot of serious issues there without bringing in goofy ones.
boddi
On 12/21/05, John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:
> This column by Michael Goodwin in the New York Daily News ends with one of
> the most flagrantly racist statements I've seen in print in a long time:
>
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/376383p-319815c.html
>
> Referring to the TWU International president's backstabbing of Local 100,
> Goodwin writes: "That brings to mind three words the union should have
> remembered: Father knows best. That would have saved them, and us, a lot of
> trouble."
>
> No, really, Goodwin does use the word "father." The Great White Father has
> come to tell the Little Black Children of Local 100 what to do. Goodwin
> really is too racially clueless to understand the implications of this
> statement. There's a certain synonym for "father" that applies to him, the
> TWU International president, Bloomberg, and Pataki as well: and that word is
> "motherfucker."
>
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