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Black Pol: My Slap-White-People Remark Was 'Black Hyperbole'
New York City Councilman Charles Barron said Sunday that he was using "black hyperbole" when he told a Washington, D.C., crowd gathered yesterday to demonstrate for slavery reparations that he wanted to slap white people who didn't sympathize with the cause.
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health," Barron announced as 2,000 to 3,000 reparations supporters looked on.
As the New York official uttered his incendiary remarks, vendors from the New Black Panther Party, which provided security for the event, hawked T-Shirts that read "Kill Whitey" and "How did we get to America? Heartless Christian Buyer, Ruthless Jewish seller," the Washington Times reported.
Asked about his explosive slap-the-nearest-white-person comment, Barron told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg he was only joking, before the interview turned contentious. The exchange went like this:
MALZBERG: How long have you wanted to slap white people?
BARRON: Well, let me say this to you. It's interesting that they would take that out of my speech. I think everybody knew there that was what we call improvision - oratorial improvision and black hyperbole. And y'all wouldn't understand that 'cause you're uptight and you're gonna take it where it was not intended.
Everybody at the rally laughed. White stage hands and camera people laughed. When I came off the stage, I shook hands with whites who were there and they congratulated me on a great speech. No one has taken that serious but you.
MALZBERG: Well, I'm taking it serious because it's presented as serious in the wire story. What in the world is black ...
BARRON: It's not serious. That's not serious. It's black hyperbole. Let's talk about reparations.
MALZBERG: Wait, wait, wait. If you'll be quiet for a second, I'm gonna ask you the question, what in the world is black hyperbole?
BARRON: You don't know what a hyperbole is?
MALZBERG: Yeah, I do ...
BARRON: Let me break it down for you ...
MALZBERG: N-n-n-n-n-no, I do but you just ...
BARRON: Let me break down the parts of speech for you.
MALZBERG: You yourself - no, no, no, hold on. Now you're on hold because now you're insulting. Put him on hold because I want to - you said, "You won't understand this because you're white and uptight and blah, blah, blah but black hyperbole." So, yes, I know what hyperbole is. My question to you was: What is - what you said I wouldn't understand because I'm white - black hyperbole?
BARRON: It's a sense of humor. And we take things - we identify humor, they're gross exaggerations. That's a hyperbole. And it's a sense of humor that we have politically that our folk will understand and some other folk will get uptight and take it very seriously.
MALZBERG: So if I made a joke before a white audience that I wanted to - just for my mental health - slap a black person, then I could always claim that that was white hyperbole.
BARRON: No. Because that's not how white people joke around. You're just trying to make a hypothetical to turn this into something it's not.
MALZBERG: Oh, so black people ...
BARRON: Let's talk about reparations.
MALZBERG: I will. Black people joke around by talking about ...
BARRON: Let's talk about reparations ...
MALZBERG: Wait a minute. Don't tell ...
BARRON: You could put me on hold again if you'd like.
MALZBERG: So you're just going to ...
BARRON: 'Cause I'm not entertaining no more of you wasting my time on black hyperbole you just don't get.
MALZBERG: Alright. Good-bye, city councilman. Thank you very much. I'm not going to be treated rudely and badgered on my show. (End of Excerpt)
Black Pol: My Slap-White-People Remark Was 'Black Hyperbole'
New York City Councilman Charles Barron said Sunday that he was using "black hyperbole" when he told a Washington, D.C., crowd gathered yesterday to demonstrate for slavery reparations that he wanted to slap white people who didn't sympathize with the cause.
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health," Barron announced as 2,000 to 3,000 reparations supporters looked on.
As the New York official uttered his incendiary remarks, vendors from the New Black Panther Party, which provided security for the event, hawked T-Shirts that read "Kill Whitey" and "How did we get to America? Heartless Christian Buyer, Ruthless Jewish seller," the Washington Times reported.
Asked about his explosive slap-the-nearest-white-person comment, Barron told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg he was only joking, before the interview turned contentious. The exchange went like this:
MALZBERG: How long have you wanted to slap white people?
BARRON: Well, let me say this to you. It's interesting that they would take that out of my speech. I think everybody knew there that was what we call improvision - oratorial improvision and black hyperbole. And y'all wouldn't understand that 'cause you're uptight and you're gonna take it where it was not intended.
Everybody at the rally laughed. White stage hands and camera people laughed. When I came off the stage, I shook hands with whites who were there and they congratulated me on a great speech. No one has taken that serious but you.
MALZBERG: Well, I'm taking it serious because it's presented as serious in the wire story. What in the world is black ...
BARRON: It's not serious. That's not serious. It's black hyperbole. Let's talk about reparations.
MALZBERG: Wait, wait, wait. If you'll be quiet for a second, I'm gonna ask you the question, what in the world is black hyperbole?
BARRON: You don't know what a hyperbole is?
MALZBERG: Yeah, I do ...
BARRON: Let me break it down for you ...
MALZBERG: N-n-n-n-n-no, I do but you just ...
BARRON: Let me break down the parts of speech for you.
MALZBERG: You yourself - no, no, no, hold on. Now you're on hold because now you're insulting. Put him on hold because I want to - you said, "You won't understand this because you're white and uptight and blah, blah, blah but black hyperbole." So, yes, I know what hyperbole is. My question to you was: What is - what you said I wouldn't understand because I'm white - black hyperbole?
BARRON: It's a sense of humor. And we take things - we identify humor, they're gross exaggerations. That's a hyperbole. And it's a sense of humor that we have politically that our folk will understand and some other folk will get uptight and take it very seriously.
MALZBERG: So if I made a joke before a white audience that I wanted to - just for my mental health - slap a black person, then I could always claim that that was white hyperbole.
BARRON: No. Because that's not how white people joke around. You're just trying to make a hypothetical to turn this into something it's not.
MALZBERG: Oh, so black people ...
BARRON: Let's talk about reparations.
MALZBERG: I will. Black people joke around by talking about ...
BARRON: Let's talk about reparations ...
MALZBERG: Wait a minute. Don't tell ...
BARRON: You could put me on hold again if you'd like.
MALZBERG: So you're just going to ...
BARRON: 'Cause I'm not entertaining no more of you wasting my time on black hyperbole you just don't get.
MALZBERG: Alright. Good-bye, city councilman. Thank you very much. I'm not going to be treated rudely and badgered on my show. (End of Excerpt)
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Edited by - E.Williams on 08/18/2002 19:58:40
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Edited by - thesoundguy1 on 08/18/2002 20:24:53
weither white or black
when will the media start calling blacks on race as offen as whites
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