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Can someone give me an explanation of why "nappy-headed" carries overtones of racial prejudice?
I'm fully aware of the history of the term, and the relatively nascent movement to recapture the 'nappy' look within a segment of the black population, but is it really a term with strong negative connotation?
Does it carry this same connotation in the context used, which compares a group of (what Imus considers) attractive African American women to another?
I would probably be more pissed if I were a woman than if I were black, simply because it seems to be a bizarre generalization on how female athletes should look. However, as neither, I guess I probably need more background here.
The term "ho" certainly can't be the (racial) issue here, can it?
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