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TOPIC: Saying No to Hate
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Date: Wed, Mar 7 2007 9:27am
From: "Agnes Kim"
Dear friends,
On the last day of Black History Month, the New York City Council
passed a symbolic ban on the "n-word" -- urging New Yorkers to learn
about the history of this word and refrain from using it in everyday
speech.
For more information, please read excerpts of recent news reports below.
Agnes Kim
Director of Operations
Office of Council Member John C. Liu
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: "Council vote sends a message"
The city council has said n-o to the N-word, unanimously approving a
resolution yesterday calling for a moratorium on the rap world's
favorite epithet.
"This is not just a resolution," said Councilman Albert Vann
(D-Brooklyn), a veteran black legislator and civil rights activist. "I
think this could be the beginning of a movement."
Vann said that those who use the N-word casually are often too young
to remember the historic and bloody civil rights struggle.
"And so I make an appeal to all people, and particularly the hip-hop
culture, that they would respect who we are, where we've been and that
they no longer use that N-word," Vann said during the vote.
The resolution is not a ban, and it has no enforcement teeth except
the power of moral persuasion. So its chief sponsor, Councilman Leroy
Comrie (D-Queens), who is black, said he was surprised at the
widespread attention the resolution attracted.
"It has stirred what it was intended to - discussion," Comrie said.
The 51-member Council, which has a 25-member Black, Latino and Asian
Caucus - was united in its enthusiasm for the measure.
Councilman John Liu (D-Queens), the sole Asian on the Council, called
the the N-word "the vilest word in the English language."
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