The -N- Word

[GeorgiaCoyote]

I'm quite sure if this would be better here or any the anything board but I just have to vent about this. This has to due with the Jesse Jackson's alleged use of the N word and the controversy it is stirring up. Now my take on all this is quite simple. I was raised to view that word as hateful and derogatory. It is a word that should not be used by anyone of any color or creed. That being said I do realize that within and among black communities, this word is used differently. I grew up here in the south and have known many blacks growing up. However if Jesse Jackson and the NAACP want this word to be wiped out of the public vocabulary then that should also apply to blacks. Now I ain't saying they should stop using the word all together. I'm perfectly fine with them using it amongst themselves as they have always done. In public however, it needs to be stopped. White, or any other non-black entertainer can't use the word in public without drawing major criticism for it. It should be the same with black entertainers. You can't go trying to get a derogatory term stricken from American vocabulary and have your group of folks still using it in public. That his being hypocritical and , in my view, distasteful. How can you expect to move on into a bright future as a people when you hold on to such a nasty word. On a similar note, it bothers me that so many blacks surveyed beleive that nothing will get better for them, even if Obama becomes president. Another similar survey says Generation Y, my generation, have no hope whatsoever in their future, mainly economic future. You know, if I were giving those surveys, I would a required question at the end that simply asks What do you intend to do about that? These negative attitudes are what hold folks back. You can't move forward if you let yourself beleive that you can't. We all need to do are own parts to improve our lot in life and at the same time improve our country and our world. I beleive it can be done. We all just need the right attitude. Peace ya'll.

[Bocaj Claw]

Too long; did read.

[Tom Flapwell]

Jesse Jackson has long struck me and my family as being less about fighting racism and more about getting attention.

[rabid_fox]

By the way, the word is "nigger" in case anyone thought that America was throwing a fit over "nacreous" being a useless adjective again.

[Fritz]

tl;dr

Jesse Jackson has long struck me and my family as being less about fighting racism and more about getting attention. :roll:

[Steve the Pocket]

Jesse Jackson has long struck me and my family as being less about fighting racism and more about getting attention.

There was an episode of The Boondocks that implied precisely that. Interestingly enough, the subject of the episode was specifically the use of the word "nigga" by a white man.

[Ibun]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... Nigger+Guy

[Tarukai]

Jesse Jackson has long struck me and my family as being less about fighting racism and more about getting attention.

There was an episode of The Boondocks that implied precisely that. Interestingly enough, the subject of the episode was specifically the use of the word "nigga" by a white man.

this reminds me of a local (I believe it was) story earlier in the year, or even last year maybe, of a white english teacher responding to a black student who referred to him as "nigga" in kind. The student thought he said "nigger" and was being derogitory.

I will never forget the line that made me laugh from his explanation:

"No, I said it nig-ahh." *writes it out on board as "niggah"* "You see, I accentuated it with an h sound, niggahhh"

such a funny interview.

[GeorgiaCoyote]

this reminds me of a local (I believe it was) story earlier in the year, or even last year maybe, of a white english teacher responding to a black student who referred to him as "nigga" in kind. The student thought he said "nigger" and was being derogitory.

Funny thing is something similar happened at my school. Course down here the black community practically called for the teacher's head on a lance.

[Fritz]

Jesse Jackson has long struck me and my family as being less about fighting racism and more about getting attention. :roll:

There was an episode of The Boondocks that implied precisely that. Interestingly enough, the subject of the episode was specifically the use of the word "nigga" by a white man.

It was based on true story from a few years back. I would find a link but I don't feel like it right now.

[Liz]

Nigganigganigganigganigganigganigganigganigganigga.

Such a dumb word.

[rabid_fox]

Where I grew up, we called black people 'darkies'. I lived with a black girl when I was in England and she was highly amused by this.

[Rikirk]

Jesse Jackson...along with his pall Al Sharpton...

Are troublemakers and Ambulance chasers.

And both should be beaten about the head liberally.

[Bocaj Claw]

Beaten about the head freely or beaten about the head with liberals?

[GeorgiaCoyote]

Where I grew up, we called black people 'darkies'. I lived with a black girl when I was in England and she was highly amused by this.

I gurantee you couldn't do that hear. For some of them, black is offensive while for others they don't won't to be called African Americans cuase as they put it, they weren't born in Africa. A heard about this city council meeting in Texas where a white councilman was referring to money being sucked into nothing like a black hole and this prompted a black concilman to say Why can't it be called a white hole? Utterly rediculous crap. That guy probably doesn't even know what the hell a black hole is. Then again it wouldn't surprise me if neither of them knew.