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Racism Craze: Magazine Insults Rihanna Racially And Editor Resigns by JimOvia: 9:54pm On Dec 21, 2011
I think something should be done quickly about this racism thing. Its all in the news these days. First, it was Luis Suarez (of Liverpool) against Patrick Evra of Manchester United when he called him a 'negrito' over 10 times. And suarez claims that evra's teammates call him the same thing and so he can call him the same. End of story, he has been fined 40k dollars (6.6m naira) and 8-match ban. That's the guy dat stopped africa from making football history. I still don't understand why he's playing today despite the ban. Secondly it was my dear John Terry of Chelsea insulting Anton Ferdinand by calling him a black cunt. That one done turn criminal case sef and I wonder why it should be a criminal case and suarez isn't a criminal case.

Now read the latest one making headlines. Rihanna is really pissed and has said 'Bleep you' to the guy

RACISM
Incredibly Stupid Magazine Says Rihanna Is
'Ultimate Niggabitch' With 'Ghetto Ass'
By Anna North, Dec 19, 2011 3:50 PM
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A Dutch magazine has drawn fire for calling Rihanna
"the ultimate niggabitch." And yes, it's just as
offensive in context.
Parlour has a screenshot of the article in Dutch
fashion magazine Jackie, and the English translation,
which is both racist and extremely dumb:
She has street cred, she has a ghetto ass and she
has a golden throat. Rihanna, the good girl gone
bad, is the ultimate niggabitch and displays that
gladly, and for her that means: what's on can
come off. If that means she'll be on stage half
naked, then so be it. But Dutch winters aren't like
Jamaican ones, so pick a clothing style in which
your daughter can resist minus ten. No to the big
sunglasses and the pornheels, and yes to the
tiger print, pink shizzle and everything that
glitters. Now let's hope she won't beat anybody
up at daycare.
Some readers were understandably upset about
Jackie's use of a racial slur, so editor-in-chief Eva
Hoeke issued an unsatisfying apology. On Facebook,
she wrote,
While the author meant no harm — the title of the
article was intended as a joke — it was a bad joke,
to say the least. And that slipped through my, the
editor-in-chief's, fingers. Stupid, painful and sucks
for all concerned.
Then she added,
Furthermore I hope that you all believe there was
absolutely no racist motive behind the choice of
words. It was stupid, it was naive to think that
this was an acceptable form of slang — you hear it
all the time on tv and radio, then your idea of
what is normal apparently shifts — but it was
especially misguided: there was no malice behind
it.
I'm not sure if the word "niggabitch" appears
routinely on Dutch TV and radio, but this is an
especially racist time of year for the Netherlands —
it's the time when people put on blackface to imitate
Zwarte Piet, Santa's "servant." Maybe Jackie was just
infected with the racist-Christmas spirit. Hoeke's
apology kind of misses the point, though. As Parlour
points out, Rihanna isn't Jamaican. And if tossing
around racial slurs is the Jackie staff's "idea of what
is normal," they might want to look into some new
hires.

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