Has anyone seen Lars Von Triers film 'Epidemic'? I saw the world premier of it in new york a few years back, and couldnt quite understand the one scene where the cabbie says "all a nigger needs is a loose pair of shoes, a tight pussy and a warm place to shit", then i read this today and somehow it all made sense:
In 1976 Earl Butz, the secretary of agriculture, resigned
after it was widely publicized that he had made a racist
remark. Butz's statement had been: "I'll tell you what the
coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy;
second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit."
Most people watched Butz make his exit without knowing
exactly waht he had said. The Associated Press sent out
the uncensored quotation but, according to _Columbia
Journalism Review_, only two newspapers printed it:
Wisconsin's _Madison Capital Times_ and Ohio's _Toledo
Blade_. Other newspapers said Butz had derogatorily
described blacks' "sexual, dress and bathroom predilections,"
or that he had said "a tight [obscenity] ... a warm place
to [vulgarism]," or otherwise cleaned up the language.
("Courageously." David Shaw of the _Los Angeles Times_
commented, "...no editors dropped 'shoes' from Butz's
remarks and substituted 'an article of footwear.'")
quoted from:
http://tafkac.org/celebrities/butz_racist_remark.html
In 1976 Earl Butz, the secretary of agriculture, resigned
after it was widely publicized that he had made a racist
remark. Butz's statement had been: "I'll tell you what the
coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy;
second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit."
Most people watched Butz make his exit without knowing
exactly waht he had said. The Associated Press sent out
the uncensored quotation but, according to _Columbia
Journalism Review_, only two newspapers printed it:
Wisconsin's _Madison Capital Times_ and Ohio's _Toledo
Blade_. Other newspapers said Butz had derogatorily
described blacks' "sexual, dress and bathroom predilections,"
or that he had said "a tight [obscenity] ... a warm place
to [vulgarism]," or otherwise cleaned up the language.
("Courageously." David Shaw of the _Los Angeles Times_
commented, "...no editors dropped 'shoes' from Butz's
remarks and substituted 'an article of footwear.'")
quoted from:
http://tafkac.org/celebrities/butz_racist_remark.html