on telly yeh - on radio, no way. He always just comes across as massively into the music, and does his research as well
Mark Lamarr's Redneck Music
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on telly yeh - on radio, no way. He always just comes across as massively into the music, and does his research as well
Well, that singer, and her fans who buy her records in the multi-millions seem to think it's quite acceptable to them.
Are you arguing, rhod, that Mark Lamarr could make a programme about black music in the south and call it Nigger Music? Since, after all, that word's been reclaimed?
It's only been reclaimed to a very limited extent - Nas caused a bit of a stir at the Grammys when he wore a T-Shirt publicising his forthcoming album "Nigger". On one hand he's being condemned by the NAACP, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and on the other hand being supported by Def Jam, Jay Z and other artists.
In contrast, Gretchen Wilson won a grammy for the single "Redneck Woman" - I doubt that the phones were jammed with affronted Rednecks...
The relative power and significance of each term depends on which side of the Jim Crow laws previous generations of Americans happened to be born in to. The Rednecks always held the trump cards and always sat on the best seats in the bus, so the word Redneck will never be such a touchy subject.
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not exactly. "nigger" is a hateful term based on the colour of skin, and so a bit tricky to avoid, Redneck on the other hand is a class/cultural insult, it's meaning is more fluid and, crucially, easier to wave off. Which is why it's not as touchy a subject. White southern folk would not self identify themselves as rednecks, except in jest, any more than irish people would call themselves bog-trotting paddies.Is Hank Hill a redneck?
I would say he's a Redneck icon (even if he was born in New York City 
).
Although I have to defer to the words of the great man himself:
"Dang it, I am sick and tired of everyone's asinine ideas about me. I'm not a redneck, and I'm not some Hollywood jerk. I'm something else entirely. I'm... I'm complicated!"
).Although I have to defer to the words of the great man himself:
"Dang it, I am sick and tired of everyone's asinine ideas about me. I'm not a redneck, and I'm not some Hollywood jerk. I'm something else entirely. I'm... I'm complicated!"
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dirtysweet
Ah, I just heard him say he hates it too
who Lamarr?
why does he use it then?
i'm confuzzled.
ok, i wouldnt know anything about the dynamics of this particular discussion anyway, so thats makes me wrong and you right.
Yes, yes, Rhod
You're right, of course
do you reckon Rhod knew my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek when I made that ^commment el jiffy?
as was yours!! ;p
lol.
do you reckon Rhod knew my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek when I made that ^commment el jiffy?
as was yours!! ;p
I would have thought that the "Hell Yeah" Redneck riposte, and smiley would have made that pretty clear, but it seems I'm not the only one who's dumber than a toad sittin' on a bullfrog..
p)I would have thought that the "Hell Yeah" Redneck riposte, and smiley would have made that pretty clear, but it seems I'm not the only one who's dumber than a toad sittin' on a bullfrog..
oh, i forgot, only rednecks say 'hell yeah'....
dang my hide!!!
my mistake
so, no you arent the only 1.
