- Slang word from Ice Cube?'s 1990 Album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted?
Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Why have this word here at all? The article doesn't make that clear at all.
- The KKK is representative of the Ku Klux Klan and highlights the ongoing racial intolerance of some white Americans.
Huh? The KKK is the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK does not "highlight the ongoing racial intolerance of some white Americans"--that's literal nonsense. But the continued existence of the KKK admittedly indicates that at least a very small number--the KKK numbers are miniscule today, in fact--are racially intolerant. Of course, there are many more racially intolerant whites than there are KKK members. However, some Leftists for their own purposes enjoy dignifying this now practically nonexistent group of losers as a dangerous mainstream threat to racial equality in the U.S. In so doing, said Leftists merely discredit themselves.
See NPOV.
- The spelling is not original with Ice Cube?; both Abbie Hoffman and Malcolm X used it in their writings in the 1960s, and it may well predate them.
So now we have possibly a reason for an article with this title: some 60s Leftists used it as part of their anti-Americanism, to tar the entire United States with the brush of a tiny, extreme minority group. It's not clear to me that on those grounds we need a separate article with this title, when the very title is insulting to most Americans. It might be better to include the legitimate information here in a different article, such as Leftist rhetoric through the years (that's a bad title, but you get the idea).
BTW, if we say "it may well predate them," that implies that it is not known (by anyone) who invented the word. But it probably is known.
Anyway, I'm not going to touch this article until I have some feedback. If I did touch it, I couldn't justify doing anything other than removing it entirely, for reasons given above. I admit that, perhaps, there might be a way to write an article that is both NPOV and encyclopedic under this title, AmeriKKKa; but I am not going to be the one to write it.
How do articles like this go for so long without being corrected? Wikipedians, you've got to stay vigilant! --Larry Sanger 18:10 Nov 7, 2002 (UTC)
I say delete it. It's useless and imflammatory.
BTW, the author would have made his meaning a bit more clear if he/she had written "The "KKK" in the term is representative of the Ku Klux Klan" rather than "The KKK is representative of the Ku Klux Klan". That's part of what has thrown you off here, I think. Stormwriter