Posted on 03/22/2011 5:53:05 PM PDT by Graybeard58
I grew up in the "south", this woman doesn't know what she is talking about. I've encountered more racism here in the "north" than I ever saw in the south.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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So afraid of the PC police, the word “nigger” cannot be used, even in context. See “Huckleberry Finn” and the South Park episode “Naggers” (stet)
Something here for everybody to be offended by.
Unfortunately, what constitutes a racist or offensive term is a moving target. Terms that used to be considered polite are now offensive . . . and vice versa.
Various self-appointed arbiters of taking offense don't help by changing their minds periodically.
I think the best approach is what the school did here -- have a structured, rational discussion and clear the air. The corollary is don't mess with the text, because once you start altering things you'll have to do it every 10 years or so to keep up.
“N-word” forum? Did they discuss the use of “niggardly”? Or was it about “negate,” or “nugatory”?
Oh, they mean “nigger”? That’s rather a rude word to call someone else, but no worse than many other rude terms. How about we all address one other by our given names or titles?
It would have been tough for August Wilson to write a "century-old" play since he wasn't even born until 1945. "Joe Turner" was first performed in 1984 when (despite that year's bad reputation) political correctness was not half so asinine as it is today.
Only a ni**ah kin be caulin' a ni**ah a niga**h.....muggaflugga!
Thank goodness.
But Niggaz is ok or is it Niggaz are ok?
I just want to be up to date, I didn’t grow
up in the Souf.
Why are these so called journalists such liars!
The term is primarily used by African Americans. You know it and I know it!!
These liberals are making life more difficult for blacks by lying to them. Blacks know they're lying. It's part of the game. But it's a put-down to constantly protect - but in reality lie to them.
Between the gang-bangers and the liberals the blacks don't have a chance.
I grew up in the South, in the 70s and 80s, and nobody I knew, of any race, called anyone else “nigger,” at least not in front of me. I think it was a brief, shining moment in which the old racism had died, and the new racism hadn’t yet caught on.
I did and I can't recall a soul ever pronouncing it that way except children or hairlips.
I'm a Joe Turner fan!
But that was last century... < /sarc >
“I’m a Joe Turner fan!”
Me too...
Let em roll like a big wheel thru a Georgia cotton field!
Why is nigger any different than wop, kike, spic, wet back, mick, fag? If anything, I would say the “C-Word” is worse than all of these.
[”I know what my parents went through. They grew up in the South.”]
South Boston?
Having never heard of August Wilson before today, I'd never have caught it.
IMO, it is nothing more than an adolescent head game by self-proclaimed victims designed to maintain an effective level of guilt.
OK, you may call me Gray and I'll call you Tax or should it be Miss/Mrs. Tax and Mister Beard?
Take my lightness for what it is, I've been a fan of yours for a while now.
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