MOST black people DON'T use the N word
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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.
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directacting — 18 years ago(November 16, 2007 06:14 PM)
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.
Unless you'd care to cite examples of businesses or schools that refuse to cater to blacks or bus drivers that insist on blacks sitting in the back, I think it's fair to say that the civil rights movement of the 60s cleaned up most of that sort of forced segregation. That's really not what the other posters are talking about.
I think what they're referring to is the voluntary segregation from the rest of society that the black community has embraced in the last 25 years or so. There's been an entire subculture created since the civil rights movement that seems designed along racial lines to be "black only." You can see it reflected in many of the posters here who believe that the n-word takes on a different meaning when a black uses it casuallya meaning that it can't possibly have if a white utters it. You can also see it in the blacks who won't date or associate with whites. Theb68y don't think their opinion is racist in the slightest, but of course they see Chapman's opinion that his son shouldn't date blacks as being racist in the extreme.
It's basically the same institutionalized racism and double standards that the civil rights movement sought to end. -
BloodyBirthday — 18 years ago(November 17, 2007 10:33 AM)
You have made the white your enemy so why the hell sho5b4uld we defend you against a rude comment made by someone else?
Ust another example of an overbearing jackass who goes out of their way to piss everyone off and then you wonder why no one likes you enough to defend you.