Nappy

I have to confess that prior the Don Imus bruhaha, I was familar with the term ho, as an epithet.  On the other hand, I was not familar with the term nappy, as an epithet.

A wee bit of googling gave me examples of nappy refering to, diappers ^[1], hair ^[2], and group indentity ^[3].   Rachel Marsden ^[4] denies that nappy is not racial term at all.   The guest denies it, but provides no illuatration.   Aside from the Imus incident itself, I could no example of the term nappy being used an epithet, racial or otherwise.  Please, feel free to provide such an example.

Is the all a modern day Potemkin ^[5] incident?   So it would seem.

Addendum I:  John Derbyshire, NRO – Corner ^[6], chimes in:

So Don Imus did what?  Used a couple of commonplace black-cultural terms.  If you don’t want people to use these words, guys, stop promoting them.