<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>We can clean one thing up:</span><br><span></span></div><div id="dictionary">
<dl><dt class="highlight"><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spic-and-span&allowed_in_frame=0">spic-and-span</a> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spic-and-span" class="dictionary" title="Look up spic-and-span at Dictionary.com"><img src="http://www.etymonline.com/graphics/dictionary.gif" alt="Look up spic-and-span at Dictionary.com" title="Look up spic-and-span at Dictionary.com" height="16" width="16"></a></dt><dd class="highlight">1660s, from <span class="foreign">spick-and-span-new</span> (1570s), lit. "new as a recently made spike and chip of wood," from <span class="foreign">spick</span> "nail" (see <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spike&allowed_in_frame=0" class="crossreference">spike</a> (n.1)) + <span class="foreign">span-new</span> "very new" (c.1300), from O.N. <span class="foreign">span-nyr</span>, from <span class="foreign">spann</span> "chip" + <span class="foreign">nyr</span> "new."
Imitation of Du. <span class="foreign">spiksplinter nieuw</span> "spike-splinter new."</dd></dl>"Saltine crackers" are tasty; "white crackers" aren't. But, when I lived in Alabama, "cracker' was often used as a positive self-reference by rural whites who had been there a long time. In fact, "Cracker" was one of the mascot names considered by Florida State. They went with "Seminoles", a name heartily approved of by the tribe.<br><br>And, "Aunt Jemima" is now 21st century: <br>
</div><dl style="padding-left:10px;"><dd>The Aunt Jemima products continue to
stand for warmth, nourishment and trust – qualities you’ll find in
loving moms from diverse backgrounds who care for and want the very best
for their families. http://www.auntjemima.com/aj_history/ <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo1.gif" alt=":) happy"></dd></dl>It's (mostly) in the context.<br>
<div class="clearThis margTopTenPix"> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jay Borden <jborden@datawedge.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com>; Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com>; Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 3, 2011 11:44 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem<br></font><br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv2035954002WordSection1"><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Ok… while we’re cleansing our vocabulary, let’s get rid of “Spic-N-Span”, Saltine Crackers, any references to rice or the color yellow, towels, any pictures or references to Aunt Jemima, the logo of “Land-o-Lakes Butter”, and “Gringo Killer” (at our local Sangria restaurant).</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">The smug guy on the front of “Quaker Oats” canisters also causes me to cringe.</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">
</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">This was just off the top of my head.</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I’m only luke-warm to Rick Perry… I do my typical quiet eye-roll when politicians get too preachy… but the article Rosemary Husky put forth, if taken at face value for the facts, basically doesn’t to a lot to crucify Rick Perry as a racist or bigot… even though the article(s) and LINKS make it sound like Rick Perry is leading a charge against the black community with the KKK protecting his flank… </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">If you follow each of the links in the article (even the most seemingly damning one of ‘Rick Perry’s family retreat was/is named “Niggerhead”’), the most you really get is a story about how Rick Perry’s *<b>father</b>* (note use of liberally sensitive asterisks instead of capital letters) coming into some land… and as soon as he was legally able (in 1983 or so), had the offensive word “Niggerhead” painted over on the rock on which it was planted. Beyond that, it seems that when hints of the title were reappearing through the paint, Rick Perry (or someone in his family) had the rock simply turned over.</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">The rest of the story, as well as the linked stories that (shamefully) allude to some sort of racist smoking gun, are nothing but people speaking on terms of anonymity, or stories from folks where Rick Perry grew up, talking about how life used to be, or people recalling how they themselves referenced the landmark, and how recently.</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Seems like a pretty small bandwagon to support that much weight.</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">On an unrelated note… I also think it’s interesting that in the past few emails, I’ve seen the word “fuck” and “shit” dropped without anyone saying a word (and I welcome the frankness, don’t get me wrong).</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">But in that same light, we also have folks dancing around with ‘uses two ‘g’s to spell the words African descent’, and ‘s*****’ because they are so afraid of actually even saying the word “nigger” or “squaw”.</span></div><div
class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Jay</span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div
style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Donovan Arnold<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 03, 2011 10:13 AM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Rumelhart; Tom Hansen; Kenneth Marcy<br><b>Cc:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;">Paul,</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal"
style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;">So what you are saying is that there is nothing wrong with the name of a mountain that uses two gs to spell the words African descent, there is just something wrong with people that are offended by it?</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;">I disagree. I think the whole point of literacy, including cultural literacy, is not to continue to repeat the same mistakes as our predecessors. It is not about who has the thickest skin, it is about not following the ideas and ways of those with the thickest skulls. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;">Donovan Arnold</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com><br><b>To:</b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com><br><b>Cc:</b> "vision2020@moscow.com" <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 3, 2011 10:23 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem</span><span
style="color:black;"></span></div><div id="yiv2035954002"><div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">My sometimes roundabout way of making a point isn't endearing me to some of the readership out there in Viz-land, so I'll just come out and make my point. Which is that almost everything is offensive to someone on some level, and those things that are not currently offensive may become offensive in the future because language and culture changes. We have two choices as I see it - either we whitewash everything to the point that we might as well not have mascots or place names more descriptive than "Idaho Creek 1347"<span class="yiv2035954002tab">, or we grow a thicker skin and not get so worked up about these kinds of things. </span></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div
class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span class="yiv2035954002tab"><span style="color:black;">Paul</span></span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv2035954002MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br><b>To:</b> Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com><br><b>Cc:</b> "vision2020@moscow.com" <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 3, 2011 9:08 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem<br></span><span style="color:black;"><br>Mr. Rumelhart -<br><br>If victims of bear/cougar attacks or descendants of fourth-
or fifth-century Roman ancestry feel disrespected by the University of California (Berkeley) mascot . . . or the Washington State University mascot . . . or the University of Idaho mascot . . . like us, they are free to exercise their first amendment right and loudly (and proudly) express their discomfort with those mascots.<br><br>Tom "not holding his breath" Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br><br><br><br><br>On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:49, Kenneth Marcy <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On Monday, October 03, 2011 07:26:10 AM Paul Rumelhart wrote:<br>>> It makes you wonder if someday descendants of the people murdered by an<br>>> ancient East Germanic tribe when they sacked Rome and Carthage might<br>>> someday look in horror upon a small college town in Idaho that had the<br>>> gall to name their sports team after
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