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A Vexatious Word: What does Rachel Jeantel teach us about racial slurs?
National Review ^ | 07/18/2013 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 07/18/2013 8:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/18/2013 8:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And in addition to *that* what does Miss Slim Jeans teach us about this country’s current food stamp policies *and* the American educational system?


2 posted on 07/18/2013 8:18:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

is that the new Jabba from the upcoming Star Wars?


3 posted on 07/18/2013 8:18:34 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: SeekAndFind

I”m still looking for an on-line translator


4 posted on 07/18/2013 8:21:59 AM PDT by molson209
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To: SeekAndFind

I am thinking her education is so poor, she does not even understand her own slang.


5 posted on 07/18/2013 8:22:24 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why are liberal news networks giving so much airtime to this girl?

Wasn’t Piers Morgan incredibly condescending to her, when he was spelling out “craker” or “cracka” to her??? Why no racist uproar over his implication that she can’t spell????

And why no reaction to her saying that:

1. She warned Trayvon that Zimmerman might be a rapist? Why no reaction from our LGBT groups that Zimmerman was profiled as a homosexual rapist??

2. Why no reaction to her saying that Trayvon was administering a “whoop ass” beating?? Apparently that is some element of ghetto culture which is common among her people. Why no reaction among the liberals that to get a “whoop ass” might scare the person being beaten, and he might just pull out a gun if he has one??


6 posted on 07/18/2013 8:22:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

Huge FYI that’s connected, ya think?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3857/middle-east-outrage


7 posted on 07/18/2013 8:25:41 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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RE: Why are liberal news networks giving so much airtime to this girl?

I was kinda thinking to myself — “LET HER TALK and TALk and TALK.”

The more she talks, the more we begin to realize that it was Trayvon who was the aggressor and how RIGHT the jury was.


8 posted on 07/18/2013 8:27:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“What does Rachel Jeantel teach us about racial slurs?”

It teaches me what I already know.

She (and MANY others, too) have lived their entire lives in a parallel universe to MINE , with so much rage, social backwardness and malice that it can only be explained if we admit that society has vigorously, routinely and openly cultivated and encouraged it.

Once America finally got a minority President, rather than address it, rather than be bigger than IT is, he hardly restrained himself before he gladly condoned and aggravated this. He is capitalizing on the social and political discord which it brings!

9 posted on 07/18/2013 8:28:03 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ow, my eyes! Looking at the picture, I’d say she’s part Indian. And listening to her speak, yes, I’d infer she’s as dumb as a bag of hammers. But at least she’s dishonest.


10 posted on 07/18/2013 8:30:27 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SeekAndFind

Think Ma Dean should weigh (sic) in!?!?!


11 posted on 07/18/2013 8:30:40 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: SeekAndFind

On Monday, standing in front of City Hall in New York, a young black man speaking on his cell phone — shouting into his cell phone, really — used “nigga” no fewer than twelve times during the few seconds it took me to walk into and out of earshot. It is plainly a word used for effect, for the benefit of bystanders, not simply as a generic noun. He was, incidentally, breaking the law, right there in front of City Hall: The New York city council banned the use of the word some time ago, though there are no penalties attached to the violation of that ban.

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It’s really quite simple. I don’t know why the author is unable to understand this.

It’s OK for a black person to use that word. It’s not OK for a white person. That’s racist.

It’s called a double standard. White people - especially conservatives - are held to these higher standards. In other words - we are beter than they are for following a code of ethics that they don’t have to.


12 posted on 07/18/2013 8:30:50 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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What does Rachel Jeantel teach us about racial slurs?

She had done teached us dat she ignant an a ho.

13 posted on 07/18/2013 8:30:56 AM PDT by humblegunner (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: DonaldC

she is a product of miami public schools.


14 posted on 07/18/2013 8:32:47 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Responsibility2nd

RE: It’s OK for a black person to use that word. It’s not OK for a white person. That’s racist.

I wonder, who made this rule and why is everybody required to obey it?


15 posted on 07/18/2013 8:33:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: max americana

I think her screen name is “Fiona the Hutt”.


16 posted on 07/18/2013 8:34:11 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s simply destroying any further cases that Holder might want to bring against Zimmerman.


17 posted on 07/18/2013 8:34:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: humblegunner

Miss Jean say dat nigga NEW SCHOOL
Miss Jean say dat cracker OLD SCHOOL
I say Miss Jean NO SCHOOL


18 posted on 07/18/2013 8:35:12 AM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Waddup, mah crackah?

(It’s our word, they aren’t allowed to use it.)


19 posted on 07/18/2013 8:35:35 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Responsibility2nd
White people - especially conservatives - are held to these higher standards.

Implying that others are incapable of living up to those standards...

20 posted on 07/18/2013 8:36:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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