The 'N' word - anything but black and white

bbc ^ | 3 October, 2003

[kaylar]

I am sick to death and beyond of black people who think it's cute to refer to adult white men and women as 'boys' and 'girls'. If it's wrong to so address them, then it's wrong and demeaning for everyone.

[Support Free Republic]

There's A Better Way To Beat The Media Clymers (And You Don't Have To Skate)!
	Donate Here By Secure Server Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD- It is in the breaking news sidebar!

[Lexington Green]

It's nigga' this - it's nigga' that
It's nigga' all the day
And ain't it cool to own a word
That honkies cannot say

[Henrietta]

"If white boys doing well, it's success When I start doing well, it's suspect."

An unfortunate consequence of "affirmative action" policies.

[ex-Texan]

What I find shocking is hearing the 'N word' thrown back and forth among blacks in mixed company with whites. Like while riding the bus. Sometimes, blacks use the word like a challenge to all the whites who are present. People turn away and try not to stare with their jaws open.

The word may be used as a term of 'brotherhood' or used for the purpose of making an extreme insult. Nothing sounds as vile and vulgar as a black woman who is really upset yelling the 'N word' at some guy. It can make your hair curl right up and your face turn red. Just that one word.

Personally, I wish the word was never used by anybody ever again. 'Nuff said.

[neutrino]

Today, even black artists who are labelled more conscientious, such as soul singer Angie Stone, have adopted the term. "I don't have a problem with it," says Stone, "as long as it's used in an affectionate way."

So does this mean that I could say something like: "Gosh, I sure like ______________ !" ?

Umm. I didn't think so...

[Malsua]

>>Surely, no other word in the English language can provoke such polarised reactions as "nigger", <<

Well, I agree, but there is a close second. Begins with C ends with T and you can make 51% of the planet's population absolutately insane by calling them it.

[PISANO]

First WORDS........then BOOKS..........finally THOUGHT!! I am NOT for banning any of the above.

[cyborg]

Don't use Hitlery's name in vain please have some respect!

[FreedomCalls]

Chevrolet?

[Malsua]

>>Chevrolet? <<

Naw, anything with UN in it, is probably a bad thing.

[freekitty]

"It's nigga' this - it's nigga' that
It's nigga' all the day
And ain't it cool to own a word
That honkies cannot say."

And guess what, you can call each other whatever you want the rest of your life. I don't really care and I don't like the word. That's why I won't use it.

[yarddog]

Back in the 60's and 70's and maybe later, whenever a Northern liberal member of the press quoted a White Southerner, they would invariably have them saying "nigra".

I never did quite figure out what they were trying to get across. Maybe they were thinking that we just couldn't bear to say "Negro" so we sort of halfway said it. Maybe they thought we Southerners were too ignorant to pronounce the word "Negro".

Anyway in my entire life, born and raised in the deep South, I have never heard a person use the word "Nigra" in actual speech.

[Sentis]

I never thought of that before I have lived in the South all my life also and never heard that word used other than on TV shows.

[sweetliberty]

What is so amazing to me is that you can use every profanity known to man in music, in public places, even on television any more. There are people, particularly young people, who seem unable to speak if the "F" word is deleted from their vocabulary. The same people who don't bat an eye over the flagrant obscenities in common usage, PARTICULARLY by black people, will be aghast if anyone so much as whispers the *n* word.

Just a couple of weeks ago a coworker of mine was fired because she was overheard using the word in a conversation with another coworker and the busybody eavesdropper reported it. I have another coworker, black, who doesn't see the big deal. It's a word for crying out loud. Granted, it is a word that can be used as an insult, but JUST a word nevertheless.

[sweetliberty]

"An unfortunate consequence of "affirmative action" policies."

There ya go drawing logical conclusions. First rule of political correctness: logic must be tossed out.

[sweetliberty]

"Begins with C ends with T and you can make 51% of the planet's population absolutately insane by calling them it."

Well, it is demeaning, but you still have a right to say it...but don't be surprised if you get your face slapped. Of course, there are times that it works....

.

[yarddog]

It is simply an indication of which group is more equal than others in today's society.

Linguisticly (or is it linguistically) and morally speaking there is exactly no difference between using the term "cracker" and "nigger", however one is used commonly to refer to Whites while the other is worse than murder in many people's minds. The same goes for "honkey". It is precisely the same thing ethically as using a disparaging term for Negro.

[Coeur de Lion]

Nigra actually was a word used. Since, use of the word nigger was associated with the "lower classes" it became a substitute used by the "upper classes." It fell into disuse because of a change in attitudes.

The word nigger carries a variety of overtones and blacks use it in variety of fashions including some extremely demeaning ones toward other blacks. When I overhear a black on a cell phone saying, "'Yo', bitch 'ho'! if I catch that fuckin' nigger over there I'm gonna beat his ass", you know he doesn't mean anything complementary toward the fellow, let alone the woman.

The word's a part of history. It's preferable that all this foolishness with respect to how bad it is would come to an end. It won't though, but a perfect example of the absurdities surrounding this word are the protests of ignoramuses wanting to ban "Huckleberry Finn" because it includes the word nigger. Such protests only end up showing what idiots they truly are given that they're incapable of getting beyond word and reaching an understanding of what Mark Twain was trying to say.