"It?s like touching a tar baby ..."

[Tx 242 MASON]

Not a fan of Disney eh?




In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact.

Story

In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a doll out of a lump of tar and dresses it with some clothes. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the tar "baby" amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as the Tar Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and in doing so becomes stuck. The more Br'er Rabbit punches and kicks the tar "baby" out of rage, the worse he gets stuck. Now that Br'er Rabbit is stuck, Br'er Fox ponders how to dispose of him. The helpless, but cunning, Br'er Rabbit pleaRAB, "but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch," prompting Fox to do exactly that. As rabbits are at home in thickets, the resourceful Br'er Rabbit escapes. Using the phrases "but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch" and "tar baby" to refer to the idea of "a problem that gets worse the more one struggles against it" became part of the wider culture of the United States in the mid-20th century.[citation needed] The story was originally published in Harper's Weekly by Robert Roosevelt; years later Joel Chandler Harris wrote of the tar baby in his Uncle Remus stories. A similar tale from African folklore in West Africa has the trickster Anansi in the role of Br'er Rabbit.

[lindseyp1977]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/niggardly
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niggardly
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/niggardly

Die.

[mcfly2008]

Fighting Liberals is fun.

[Palins Bastard Grandchild]

It probably didn't help that the original tar baby was drawn to look like a darker Little Black Sarabo.

And you said it your self - it wasn't about dark skinned people "until it became a race thing. That is the key. It became a race thing, hence it is a race thing now, whether we agree or not. And I can't see how anyone would have such an attachment to either tar baby or niggardly to push back about it, other than to create a situation over which you can rail against P.C.

[klein b]

You can't even follow the conversation in your own thread. Just sit down.

[Aмїиa x3]

Says the moron who doesn't know shit ...

[SIRup]

[Borntofarm]

Go fuck your mother asshole.

[kiro c]

That has nothing to do with implying the usage of the word 'niggardly' is only frowned upon because of political correctness.

[CMLLV]

this thread is fucking hysterical