- Apr 7, 2013
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I'm trying to understand; if blacks don't want whites using it, how will blacks ceasing to use it around them, along with all else you stated, do anything to help that?
Blacks using the N-word around whites says it's okay to use that racial slur TO black people. After all, when was the last time an Italian called another Italian a "Dago" around YOU? How about a Jew calling another Jew a "kike".... around YOU? They call each other those names, you know..... just UNLIKE blacks they don't do so when non-Italians, non-Jews are present. And NONE of their singer/musicians make a living off of casting racial/religious slurs on their people.
Oh, and "making it ok?" My neighbor's 10 year old son brought a white friend (same age) home. Another black kid came up to them, outside, talked for a minute and left. After he was gone, my neighbor's son, trying to front and going for hard, looked after him and sneered, "That N**** thinks.....!" The white kid, WANTING TO FIT IN, agreed kinda tamely, "yeah, that N****...." Neighbor's son started, looked the white boy hard in the face. White boy looked back, a confused, submissive smile on his face.... My neighbor's son made it okay for his FRIEND "who just happened to be white" to use the N-word.
Wasn't it used by whites when the word wasn't glorified by blacks? How will it help change a thing going back to that? Even if it eliminates the fallacious argument often used to justify it's usage by whites(i.e., rappers say it every other word, so why can't I?), how will it actually help stop them from using it? Won't the "freedom of speech" argument still be used instead?
There is no RIGHT to denigrate others. Your Right to Free Speech ends when you assault me (assault is words; battery is physical). As for the rest, see the above. People treat you as you let them. You don't want whites using the word, YOU stop using it around them.
Though it should be understood, I'm not for using it at all, truly. I'd much rather my own name, and using the name of whomever I'm speaking to. I'm just trying to understand what's being stated.
"You don't want whites using the word": The N-word was NEVER said on TV.... until Oprah. Oprah decided to do a show on racism with real racists in the audience (lol). Everyone black told her not to, said that she would be opening a can of worms (turned out to Pandora's box!), giving a platform to racists. She went ahead and did it. She was the FIRST on that program to use the N-word, before rappers, before Imus et al even came on the scene.
Upshot: The air waves have been rife with the N-word ever since. It has permeated the culture. Trust, it was Oprah.... who later would say she didn't have certain whites on her show because (said 'loftily') it would be giving a platform to racists. Btw, Oprah got her feelings hurt. Just knowing white folk LOVED her and/or were too polite whateva, to make racial slurs to her 'anointed' face, you could see the hurt when one hillbilly called her a monkey. She opened Pandora's Box; she brought it on herself.