Word: painfulness
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...songs, labeling them "extreme curse words." Why are you focusing on only these three words? -John Kensall, TorontoBecause every time you speak to a black activist, he will tell you that these three words offend him the most. [Eliminating] these three words will alleviate a lot of the pain...
...generation come up with new terms and new ways to promote the same offensive expressions? -C. Videgain, Brooklyn, N.Y.I hope so. I hope there will always be an outlet for pain in these communities. It's something we have to address...
...gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people - it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. The last chapter of my book is about rappers having the guts to speak truth to power. It is very important that they...
There’s no question that the three words Simmons wants to bleep cause pain and perpetuate negative stereotypes. But so do “whore,” “trick,” “chickenhead,” and the dozens of other demeaning names many rappers call women in their songs. Why didn’t Simmons request the removal of those words, too? And what about anti-gay epithets? Does Simmons think they are less hurtful than anti-woman epithets? (If you’ve seen Byron Hurt’s excellent...
...officer was dispatched to Au Bon Pain to take a report of an unarmed robbery. The reporting party stated that while they were outside three unknown individuals approached them and made bias related comments and then attempted to steal their laptop and book bag. The reporting party stated that they grabbed their laptop and book bag and made their way inside the building. The reporting party stated that the three individuals then fled the area...