In the wake of Rick Perry leasing a hunting camp called… ummm… *cough* *cough*head, Wyatt Cenac filed a report for “The Daily Show” (video below) that no white correspondent possibly could have: he pointed out that scores of other American geographical features are named with similar insensitivity to race issues. What I’m trying to say is, he said the N-word a LOT. And not the N-word the way black people say it to each other, but the way white slave owners used to say it: casually, and with a hard “-er.”

The piece made me wide-eyed and slightly uncomfortable until Cenac branched out into my preferred territory: locations named with old-timey racist slurs. And as we all know, old-timey racist slurs are the ONLY racist slurs I’ll tolerate around here.

Hahahahaha, “Squaw Tit Mountain.” Sounds like a Navajo strip club. I bet there’s firewater and slut machines there. “Wait, don’t you mean slot machines?” Nope.

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Last night, in one of the better “Daily Show” segments I’ve seen in some time, Wyatt Cenac examined how the crappy economy has affected the rap industry and related businesses by sitting down with Slim Thug and helping him downsize his posse. And as much as I’d love to go on and on examining the humorous disconnect between hip-hop culture and white-collar consulting*, there’s not much I can add that will top the list of Slim Thug’s expenditures in June 2009:

*I would not like to do that. At all.