I’m a white guy from Oakland. During lunch time or after school (its been many yeras now) we’d all play basketball. To many black kids, the game was playfully called N-ball. I must have heard it called N-ball about a billion times in my lifetime. One day, I said, “You guys want to play N-Ball?”...or something to that effect. I got death stares and one dude said, “What do you mean by that?” It was almost like I was the guy who cut off Kunte Kintes foot (from Roots)...thats how much tension I stirred up. I tried to joke my way out of it but, it wasn’t funny to anyone and I learned my lesson that day.
My point is: If black people insist in using this word, it’s going to seep its way into the larger culture....including white culture. Thats how it works. Either the N-word is taboo for all of us or taboo for none of us. How can a woman be fired for using a word that is basically common in most inner cites?
I say it’s politically correct liberal madness. She apologized. Move on!!!
Here’s the problem.
In any society or race, there are always idiots. In the U.S. that’s about half.
Since the negro race only comprises about 10% of the population in the U.S., that means there are many more white idiots than there are black idiots.
i’d love to see the look on the face of those little “white but wanna be black kids”, that use the accent and mannerisms of black because they thinks its cool, and they think they’re feelin the luv.
then, one day, in their coolness, they’ll use the nword, and lose a job or something, and they’ll have that stupid public school look on their face as if to say “hey homie, its all good”