MOST black people DON'T use the N word
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directacting — 18 years ago(November 13, 2007 06:52 AM)
I think this B.S. statement is in the minority. It's a good chance most Blacks don't like anyone to use the word, even on the internet.
I think if you read the responses from blacks on this board, you'll see that's simply not the case. Most are defending the use of the termby blacks exclusively, of courseciting "context," the history of slavery, and God knows what other lame excuses.
They feel deprived if they can't use it in casual conversation just because they witness Black kids doing it.
I'm sorrydidn't you just claim that most blacks don't use the word? Make up your mind.
For the record, I live in a major city with a huge black population. The ONLY people I ever hear use the n-word in any form are blacks. I'm not really buying the notion that white teens use it with any regularity. The white teens who are into rap and hip-hop are especially unlikely to use it, since they'd be the first to follow the black community's implied directive that the casual version of the n-word is never to be uttered by caucasians in any context. I can imagine certain types of white teens using it in a joke-y sort of way to make fun of ebonics, but they certainly wouldn't be using it regularly or peppering casual conversations with it.
And White people can use the n-word. In fact they use it all the time
At a KKK rally perhaps. But I'd say the vast majority of whites wouldn't use it at all. You know, I think most whites are raised to be a little racist to some extent, but certainly not to the point where they'd be hurling racial slurs or even using the term in private conversation to refer to blacks. It's simply not done. -
lexom-returns — 18 years ago(November 13, 2007 09:52 PM)
I don't think white people are interested in adopting the term. Quite honestly, I think whites are just getting tired of the black community being in a uproar over the use of the word while large segments of the community throw the word around every day like it's nothing. At some point, the public display of pain starts to seem disingenuous.
Funny, black slaves called themselves the n word. Blacks during Jim Crow did as well. Maybe whites back then continued to use the word, while doing other things of course, because of that too! -
disinter — 18 years ago(November 11, 2007 09:21 PM)
I don't think white people are saying it's ok to say it because blacks do, I think what they are saying is, "Clean up your own backyard". Don't focus 2000on what you can't control. You CAN however control the attitudes and language in your house and neighborhood.
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directacting — 18 years ago(November 14, 2007 12:46 PM)
I love how the white act like they know what Black people say and do like they know Black people. Segragation isn't just a word to a white, it's a way of life. You people only care and know your own type so only talk about your own.
I love how the blacks act like they know what white people say and do like they know white people. Segragation isn't just a word to a black, it's a way of life. You peopl2000e only care and know your own type so only talk about your own.
Your exact words, with "black" substituted for "white" and vice versa. See what a racist you are? You're MUCH worse than Chapman, actually. -
kiarashawnee — 18 years ago(November 16, 2007 02:30 PM)
Some of you people watch far to much BET and believe way to many stereotypes. A majority of the black community never use it.
I'm going to partly agree with this theory. haa
I mean the older generation blacks completely loath the word and don't recommend us degraded ourselves like we continously do, but the younger generation blacks could care less and use the word amongst eachother.
I've been reading many of the post regarding this topic and one thing struck a cord in me. I think two of the posters said that
"blacks choose to be segregated".
That comment is competely unnecessary to say. First off, we're not the ones who started the segregation. Whites did.
Whites made the mess, and it's time they clean it up. Stop trying to deny and make yourselves out to be something holy. It goes RIGHT BACK to the mind-set of early Europeans.
"I
SWEAR
TO
GOD
I'm gonna invent a way to punch people through the internet."