MSNBC's Toure says Romney Is Engaging In The "nization" Of Barack Obama

[angus]

This is a ndly thread.

Hardly.

Three pages on an guy that nobody ever heard of making up a word?  I'd say that's the antithesis of ndly. 

Or we just have a lot of free time and nothing better to do. 

[angus]

Damn.  It may very well be a word.  Well, okay, a newspeak word, like pwned or something.  Nevertheless, it has precedent.  I found an etymology and reference on usage.  

UrbanDictionary.com defines it thusly:  "verb - To convert something whereby it receives the characteristics to that of a nigga." (Assuming here that we suspend verbal justice and accept nigga as a word as well, then we have a working definition of the verb.  The noun nization follows logically, I suppose.  For the unitiated, UrbanDictionary.com links to the "related word" nigga, which it defines as follows:  "NIGGA- a black man with a gold chain on his neck" and says that the word was coined and initially defined by Tupac.  I'll assume here that they don't mean the famous Inca Tupac Amaru, who lead a courageous but ultimately failed revolt against the Spaniards, since Tupac Amaru probably didn't speak English.  They must be referring to some other Tupac.)  Anyway, UrbanDictionary.com uses it in the following example:  "We're gonna go nize ourselves surfing all day."  nize, then, would mean something like "to make something seem like a black guy with a gold chain on his neck."

A slightly more thoughtful definition and etymology, though still crude, is provided by LibertarianRepublican.net.  On that site, an article by Clifford F. Thies reads, in part, that "The term "nization" ... was coined by the National Socialists of Germany (Nazis) during the 1930s. They castigated the "nization" of the arts, sports, the culture and the economy, and promoted racial purity."  Thies goes on to suggest that the word nization basically means the promotion of race-mixing or racial equality.  Thies does not provide any references, but he seems to know what he's talking about.  After all, it's on the internet, so it must be accurate.

nmania.net also provides some background in its forum pages.  Although not particularly scholarly, the site proves that the term nize has been in use for at least ten months.  Then again, a quick perusal shows that words like niggturds and nigglets are also in common use on that forum (and I'm equally unconvinced of their formality).

Tough call.  I haven't really come up with a scholarly source yet.  Neither Mirriam-Webster's on-line search engine nor that of OED recognize the word nization or nize.  Still, its use is common enough, as evidenced by a google search.

Interestingly, Yasminola goes a step further and uses a term "nizationology," which it carefully defines as "the study of humans or human societies who take on or emulate the characteristics, mannerisms, and mentalities of the ghetto black man."  Yasminola goes on to point out that "the act of nization does not necessarily apply to black races alone and the role can be reverse. An example of (role reversal such as) nizationology can be relate to the story of one unfortunate white ‘collar worker’ inmate (the usual tom, dick and harry with a high flying career and envious qualification prior to imprisonment)."

All of which I find somewhat confusing, and very amusing.

[angus]

I hate them all, except for the gay guy who sometimes spends too much time on the superficial

Piers Morgan?  He gets on my nerves after about five seconds.

I like John Stossel.  I think it's the porn star mustache that does it for me.

[angus]

[Of course, my joke is, "One white guy on the block is a wigger.  Two is gentrification."]      

 I'll have to borrow that.

By the bye, we'll be taking the train to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia tomorrow.  I think it's about an hour and five minutes and 15 for adults, 7.50 for children.  A former colleague from Boston, now in UC Riverside, is going to be in the Phila Convention Center and I want to hook with him and have a meal or something like that.  Any recommendations for decent, fattening, large portions, reasonably priced, in that area?  He has a penchant for Slavic and Mediterranean fare.

[angus]

MMMM.  Jamaican.  Sweet curried meats, salty fish, plantains, and callaloo.  And rice, of course.  My epicurean experiences in Jamaica were always good, and generally involved spicy, yet sweet, foods.  Easy to find a restaurant on that island:  Look for any shack with five or more chickens in the yard.  When you enter there are five chickens.  When you leave there are four.  How fresh is that?  Jamaican chickens are so skinny, though.  I guess in a Jamaican restaurant in the US you get the best of both worlds:  a gringo-sized chicken, but jerked liberally.  Jamaican style.  I always imagined that if I were a chicken, my last request (before being eaten) would involve a thorough jerking by a strong and experienced pair of Jamaican hands.

Ah, well.  This dude likes Italian fare too, as I recall.  And you can never go wrong with chinese, especially if your permanent entourage includes a citizen of the PRC with a particularly sensitive nose.  

Cheers.