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**Ross Macintosh** · 20 October 2006, 11:46 AM

Those who find the title inoffensive should consider is it appropriate to use a title many people will find offensive? There can be no doubt that it was used here to be controversial.

I agree it is a very interesting portrait.

**Availor** · 20 October 2006, 11:55 AM

I find it a bit funny: You all agree the topic is offensive, though no one has changed it.

EDIT: Black people tend to call each other that way, and they have a reason for that. It represents the times when they were slaves, to invoke the memory of their own insult by others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger

If any other person says it, it is offensive.

From my previous experience with Logo's "freedom of speech legitimate" threads I would call it off.

P.S. Even if it is legitimate, if it bothers too many people on the forums (and appearently it is) it should be changed. Freedom of speech should not overcome the freedome of being comfortable in here for the community.

Somehow James always manages to test the limits.

My opinion.

**Logo Kid** · 20 October 2006, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by Availor

I find it a bit funny: You all agree the topic is offensive, though no one has changed it.

I find it funny as well ... Pryor would be laughing his ass off in his grave at this one.

**Availor** · 20 October 2006, 12:09 PM

Well dig him out and ask him

**Logo Kid** · 20 October 2006, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Availor

Well dig him out and ask him

Now I do find that offensive!

**Availor** · 20 October 2006, 12:27 PM

Then go file a complain, you're good at it.

**pauland** · 20 October 2006, 12:40 PM

Availor, you should know better..

**Soquili** · 20 October 2006, 01:25 PM

Please be respectful of everyone. I personally found the title offensive and expressed my opinion. I did not expect people to become aggressive.

We Are All Related. We should respect our differences as well as our similarities.

**Ross Macintosh** · 20 October 2006, 01:51 PM

Rather than edit for him - I would like to see Logo Kid edit the title himself given that he now knows it is offensive to others.

While Richard prior used such language I don't believe he considered it generally applicable to himself. My understanding is he used it to contemptuously describe people who were, in their attitudes/behaviour, still enslaved. Calling Richard Prior the name speaks to me of a misunderstanding of the poignant humor of the man.

**Thatch** · 20 October 2006, 01:52 PM

Art isn't always PC, nor should it be. Sometimes it offends. I find it disheartening to see people that are interested in the arts so eager to squelch things they find distasteful. The title of the post/image is in keeping with the theme of the work and the work is of someone who made a living out of offending people with graphic speech and brutal truths.

In a way, James did "dig him up". A little bit of Pryor took place right here in this forum through his performance art.

J