TCU Calls Graham Cracker Signs Offensive: MyFoxDFW.com

“Hi my name is Graham, like the cracker,” he said.
That’s how McMillan has been introducing himself since high school. It’s even how his friends know him.
“And he was like, ‘I’m Graham, like the cracker, McMillan.’ And he did it so people would remember his name. That’s how I remember him,” said Taylor Slack.
After McMillan put the catchy addition to his name on his campaign posters he got a call from his student advisor.
“That it could be deemed derogatory and had been derogatory. And, I just taped it over,” he said. “TCU provided me with some blue tape so I could cover it up, which was very nice. And, I ran out so I thought why not spice this up a little bit and make it a little more pop. I got some yellow tape in there and found some flames and decided to put that on there too.”
Other students on campus said they understand the word cracker can sometimes have negative racial connotations, but in this case it doesn’t seem harmful.
“I thought since his first name was Graham it really wasn’t a problem, you know,” said Emma Altgelt.
Some of the signs no longer have tape on them. McMillan said that’s because some students have told him they’ve taken it upon themselves to remove it.
He said he’ll likely continue using his favorite catch phrase for introductions with friends.

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This NY Times Obit-type article on Andy Rooney today by Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews seemed wildly inappropriate to me for dwelling on “controversial” things he said that people got pissy about.

Time magazine once called him “the most felicitous nonfiction writer in television.” But Mr. Rooney was decidedly not everyone’s cup of tea.

The New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen, for example, took strong issue with Mr. Rooney’s dismissive comments after Kurt Cobain of the band Nirvana committed suicide in 1994. It was not surprising, she wrote, that Mr. Rooney “brought to the issue of youthful despair a mixture of sarcasm and contempt,” but it was “worth noting because in 1994 that sort of attitude is as dated and foolish as believing that cancer is contagious.”

Mr. Rooney’s opinions sometimes landed him in trouble. In 1990, CBS News suspended him without pay in response to complaints that he had made remarks offensive to black and gay people.

The trigger was a December 1989 special, “A Year With Andy Rooney,” in which he said: “There was some recognition in 1989 of the fact that many of the ills which kill us are self-induced. Too much alcohol, too much food, drugs, homosexual unions, cigarettes. They’re all known to lead quite often to premature death.” He later apologized for the statement.

But the gay newspaper The Advocate subsequently quoted him as saying in an interview: “I’ve believed all along that most people are born with equal intelligence, but blacks have watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children. They drop out of school early, do drugs and get pregnant.”

Mr. Rooney denied that he had made such a statement, and because the interview had apparently not been taped, the reporter was unable to prove that he had. “It is a know-nothing statement, which I abhor,” Mr. Rooney said.

He said that he had accepted the suspension rather than end his relationship with CBS News. He said that when he was an Army trainee, he had been arrested in the South because he insisted on riding in the back of a bus with some black soldiers who were friends of his.

Many of his colleagues rushed to his defense. “I know he is not a racist,” Walter Cronkite said.

Mr. Rooney was suspended for three months but was brought back after only one. During his absence, the ratings for “60 Minutes” declined by 20 percent and the network received thousands of letters and telephone calls from viewers who missed his commentaries.

Mr. Rooney generated more criticism in 2002, when he said in an interview on a cable sports show that women had “no business” being sideline television reporters at football games because they did not understand football.

He did it again in 2007, with a newspaper column complaining about the current state of baseball. “I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,” he wrote.

He subsequently acknowledged that he “probably shouldn’t have said it,” but denied that his intent had been to denigrate Latin American players.

Years ago Michelle Malkin made a similar stink over Rooney saying that “negro” is a perfectly fine word to use and I thought that was equally cheap a criticism as all these others. Wtf is wrong with the word negro other than “racists used to say it along with everyone else when it was in our lexicon”? It’s not a racist word. It’s just not in fashion to say. so what is wrong with Rooney saying he doesn’t see whats wrong with the word? Stupid.

And all these other charges are stupid too but its worse to dwell on them and give them the same stature as other events in his life that actually mattered (good or bad). Shame on you.

The mayor of Frederick, Md., says a controversial Halloween display featuring three faceless dummies hanging from a willow tree will remain at a city park, despite complaints from the NAACP.

Guy Djoken, president of Frederick County’s NAACP chapter, has called on Mayor Jeff Holtzinger to order parks officials to remove the display, which he calls “disturbing.”

“Something should be done right away,” Djoken told FoxNews.com. “When you look from a distance, it doesn’t look good. We should just remove it.”

Graham Norton has been scolded by BBC chiefs after making a playful observation about the haircuts of lesbians. The Daily Mail reports that he “has been warned about ‘ reinforcing a potentially offensive stereotype’ after his comments were investigated by the corporation”. Bullshit with the “potentially offensive stereotype” idiocy. New Rule: Actual human beings who are responsible for and then reinforce these sterotypes you hippies find so offensive must come under criticism and crackdown FIRST, then you can start harassing the people who talk about them. Hippies are always thought-policing speech about minorities, but never criticizing the minorities who embody the speech. Hypocrite tools.

The objection posed as the question “What does a lesbian look like?” is retarded and Graham was right to quickly quip back “THAT” as he pointed to the picture. Hippies can’t stand that kind of reasoning though because they’re brainwashed to think any observations on appearance are bad. Doesn’t matter the intent (Graham, who is gay, was not making an anti-gay remark) and certainly doesn’t matter if it’s true; it just must not be said.

Political correctness requires people to lie in service of a hippie bullshit ideology where everyone is the same carbon based automoton. It operates under the fallacy that a description can only be accurate if it applies to literally everything. Thus, things that are generally true (aka “generalizations”) or even overwhelmingly true are forbidden speech under political correctness because if it’s not true 100% of the time, then it’s not true. Therefore, Seattle isn’t rainy because its not raining 24 hours a day, and lesbians aren’t fat and short haired because Rosie O’Donnells girlfriend is thin with long hair.

In the following segment, Dennis Miller asked “what’s next? Women protesting over Mounds bars?” to which O’Reilly paused and noted that he didn’t get it before a quick recovery saying he did – followed by a ziplipped Miller for 2 seconds, letting O’Reilly stumble in his awkward oopsie.

They go off subject right afterward and comment on other news of the day as usual for the segment, but Dennis loops it around by saying Obama needs to “grow a set of Snickers” and teased O’Reilly over the Mounds bar crack to which both were visibly amused.

How is this not everyone’s favorite show again?…

Best part is near the end when the field reporter takes a bite of a cupcake before the transition back to the school official. Hilarious and very dry. Daily Show-esque gag slipped into legitimate news. Kindov like that time Glenn Beck was sneaking bites of fast food hamburgers in between questions to a health food expert he was interviewing on his CNN show.