Tell me who's racist?

serenitynow422 · Nov 20, 2007, 05:28 PM

This is something i have issues with distinguishing. I do understand that people have to respect eachothers races but the main issue i have is btwn whites and blacks. Why are blacks seemingly allowed to use the N word where if a white used it LAWSUIT??? I have nothing against whites or blacks its just that line is blurred to me...

NeedKarma · Nov 21, 2007, 08:35 AM

Heres' the funny part in how that relates to the internet. I can sign up here and start calling excon my niggah 'cause we're black and it's ok. If I reveal at a later time that I'm actually a white girl then suddenly it's not ok. Weird eh?

Jesushelper76 · Nov 21, 2007, 11:54 AM

Hmmm, interesting you bring that up NeedKarma.

Homegirl 50 · Nov 21, 2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by letmetellu

I also don't understand the use of the N word by black people, I did not make the N word a bad word. I am an older person and lived with black people all of my younger years, and no one seemed to mind the N word, neither blacks or whites but all of a sudden it got to be a very bad word and as of yet I still do not know why.

It was a very nasty word used by whites in reference to blacks during a time when blacks were treated no better than animals. The word IMO should not be used at all. AS far as black using it, I think it is a slap in the face to all blacks born in the era and before the Civil Rights Movement, it is ignorant, but I am very offended when a white person uses it. It is disrepectful and ignorant it says to me, the derogatory meanng and attitude still applies in your mind in regards to blacks.

Homegirl 50 · Nov 21, 2007, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

Here's' the funny part in how that relates to the Internet. I can sign up here and start calling excon my nigga 'cause we're black and it's ok. If I reveal at a later time that I'm actually a white girl then suddenly it's not ok. Weird eh?

I would not think it's OK. I would be insulted. And a white person who thinks that IMO has no clue what they are talking about.
I lived during that time, the time when we could not go to certain places or had to sit in the back of the bus, or when we could be spit on and called that and there would be no recourse. So to so trivially use the word shows ignorance of that time and how deplorable it was.
In fact to call any group of people by those kinds of names shows a lack of respect and ignorance.

Homegirl 50 · Nov 21, 2007, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by speechlesstx

I don't get it either - and I'm tired of being called racist simply because I'm white - or slightly tanned (and in spite the fact that not only was I the minority in school, I'm still the minority in my neighborhood). I don't care what color you are, where you're from or whatever - until you throw it in my face.

Unfortunately that IS the problem. Too many (like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) feel the need to insert racism into almost any situation. Perhaps if they just shut up about it except in cases that do merit attention, it just might go away. But then, they would have nothing to gain from it and would have to find a new career.

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If you think it is OK or not a problem to refer to blacks as "N" or any other group of people by derogatory terms, That is the problem. You have no respect for people.

NeedKarma · Nov 21, 2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Homegirl 50

I would not think it's OK. I would be insulted. And a white person who thinks that IMO has no clue what they are talking about.
I lived during that time, the time when we could not go to certain places or had to sit in the back of the bus, or when we could be spit on and called that and there would be no recourse. So to so trivially use the word shows ignorance of that time and how deplorable it was.
In fact to call any group of people by those kinds of names shows a lack of respect and ignorance.

I think you missed the point I was making which is the same point as the original question: it's seems ok for blacks to call each other that, but not for a white guy to use it. No one was talking about using the term in a derogative way.

Homegirl 50 · Nov 21, 2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

I think you missed the point I was making which is the same point as the original question: it's seems ok for blacks to call each other that, but not for a white guy to use it. No one was talking about using the term in a derogative way.

Because of how the word was used originally, because of the history of the word, it should not be used at all.

excon · Nov 21, 2007, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Homegirl 50

it should not be used at all.

Hello Home:

In the real world, "SHOULD" doesn't happen. SHOULD happens only in the mind of dreamers and fantasizes. What HAPPENS, is what happens. To dismiss the issue as something that SHOULDN'T happen, misses the point of WHY it's happening.

Cause it's happening all over the place.

excon

Wondergirl · Nov 21, 2007, 01:37 PM

A race is sort of like a family. In my family we tease my sister about what a ditz she is or they tease me about what a smart a$$ I am, and no one thinks anything of it. But if our sils or bils or mils or even our fils start in with the same kind of teasing, all laughter shuts down and my sis or I are offended. "Blood is thicker than water," the saying goes.

I suspect blacks, especially males, using the "N" word with each other is the same thing. We with a German heritage can call each other "krauts," but those Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans had better not call us that!

speechlesstx · Nov 21, 2007, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Homegirl 50

If you think it is OK or not a problem to refer to blacks as "N" or any other group of people by derogatory terms, That is the problem. You have no respect for people.

Homegirl 50, I was not addressing the use of the "N" word, I was responding to this quote by anon699:

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What do people gain by being racist and prejudiced against race, religion and culture? I just really don't get it and think that as advanced as we're "supposed" to be, it's really sad that we can't get past something this trivial. thoughts?

What do people gain by being racist? What did the University of Delaware or its students gain by attempting to indoctrinate them to believe the term racism "applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality?" How does that contribute to ending racism? It doesn't, it is a flat out inexcusable, deplorable, despicable, vile, wretched, evil lie that serves no purpose other than to perpetuate racism.

Steve
P.S. I don't call blacks by the "N" word, I usually call them by name.



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