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The 'N' word - anything but black and white
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| 3 October, 2003
Posted on 10/04/2003 2:36:44 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: Coeur de Lion
Agree with what you said except I still don't think the word "nigra" was used commonly if at all.
I grew up in the Florida Panhandle and lived in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Kentucky. I have never heard that word actually used outside the Northern media.
In my experience the different classes used the same language in the South. My family probably qualified as middle to upper class and we were often around all classes. Never heard that word. I guess the more educated, probably didn't use the N word as much but they would say Colored or Negro, not Nigra.
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posted on
10/04/2003 6:35:07 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: demlosers
What I find offensive is that stupid use of the phrase "the 'n' word". It is sort of like "This word is so vile, so cruel,so toxic we dare not utter it or our white tongues will shrivel in our mouths". I remember back a few years ago there was some big flap in the news about some famous white person using the word nigger in a public statement. I recall Peter Jennings and the other TV talking heads using the phrase "the 'n' word". I thought "Wow, do these guys have any idea how stupid they sound". I reminded me of being a kid again and referring to the "f" word. Now it is said all day everyday without anyone batting an eye. The reason I don't use the word nigger is not because I am afraid to say it. It is because it is just plain tacky when it is uttered by whites or blacks.
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posted on
10/04/2003 7:52:56 PM PDT
by
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posted on
10/04/2003 8:54:48 PM PDT
by
mhking
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To: sweetliberty
Nomatter what the issue if A white person makes a remark against a black person it's racist, but a black person can say whatever he wants and that's just fine.I blame the dumb white voters ,yes I called them dumb, because your rights are ragidly not slowly being taken away.
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posted on
10/04/2003 9:34:27 PM PDT
by
deedgirl
To: foolscap
What I find offensive is that stupid use of the phrase "the 'n' word". It is sort of like "This word is so vile, so cruel,so toxic we dare not utter it or our white tongues will shrivel in our mouths".You bet, it's embarrassing.
For a white to use the word is almost beyond evil, yet blacks use it routinely.
The sheep are almost rounded up and fenced...
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posted on
10/04/2003 9:42:53 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: demlosers
Where to start.....
My grandmother was very clear, there were negros and niggers, just like there was us and white trash. I guess there were also people who said 'nigra' but I don't know what the polite term for cracker might be.
My major car building associate was perfectly comfortable calling me negro, but I was real hard pressed to use the term in return. Found it easier to remind him I'd gone to school to become a spook while he got it the easy way. (Or I just answered in spanish.)
Homey, homes (or holmes) is real tough since it does not refer to coming from the same neighborhood; does it?
Ain't a way in hell I'm calling some Irish Republican dipstick wannabe "blood". That one is out the window.
We can't even say illegal alien, so greaser and wet-back are clearly out of bounds.
"Wop", "Dago" and "Ginnie" (sp?) are terms of endearment only if you are one.
Same goes for "jew"...don't use it unless you're wearing the cap.
"Palm" or "Pom" only means something if you are Australian, "Lime" and "Brit" seem to be American things.
Jap, Heiney, Boche, gook, Fritz, and eye-tie were specific to a time and a situation I was too young to experience...but I know that "Jap" was sufficient to cost someone their life savings and acquired property, so I guess it was a powerful piece of ju-ju (can I use that word?).
I won't even get into Zip or dink because they are all too recent to evaluate and, besides, I remember Charley and Mister Charles being used at least as much.
Jury is still out on Rag Head, camel jocky, and whatever; personally, I think they're valid.
According to Monty Python, "Sprouts" is OK for Belgians, and according to anyone named Goldberg "cheese eating surrender monkey" is fit for a frenchperson. I don't have a problem with either interpretation.
Would it not be nice if none of this mattered?
I prefer "the bald guy" to any pre-established, race based, tribal, identity imposed on me by someone outside "my' tribe....unless someone comes up with a really cool term for "other than Saxon, Celtic (with possible Pict and/or Amerind, French, or even American)", THAT I moght be able to endorse.
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posted on
10/04/2003 11:57:49 PM PDT
by
norton
To: demlosers; All
Freedom of Speech died a long time ago.
America has become a pathetic joke, a caricature of itself at times with this ridiculous hypersensitivity of intolerance while all along preaching tolerance.
This post gives be an excuse to post the evil taboo word "Nigger" which would normally be immediately moderated and deleted by overzealous moderators here fearful of offending anyone.
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posted on
10/05/2003 12:17:17 AM PDT
by
expatguy
To: Lexington Green
Ah!
Kipling lives!
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posted on
10/05/2003 10:36:27 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: King Prout
Kipling lives!
Kudos to you...
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posted on
10/05/2003 10:42:52 AM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(A race-based double-standard IS racism.)
To: Lexington Green
how could anyone, having read or heard that poem, NOT espy its derivatives?
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posted on
10/05/2003 10:44:13 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: Lexington Green
And it's "Tommy this" an' "Tommy that"
An' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'Eroes"
When the drums begin to roll.
One of the best from a master.
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posted on
10/05/2003 10:47:24 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: Lexington Green
the variant you posted... yours?
It's quite good. Is there more to it?
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posted on
10/05/2003 10:49:02 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: King Prout
the variant you posted... yours? yes... but don't tell anyone. My skin color prohibits me from using certain words.
Is there more to it? no
Not hard to see why Tommy ain't a democrat---
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:05:23 AM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(A race-based double-standard IS racism.)
To: Lexington Green
Damn Straight!
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:08:36 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: demlosers
"People use it but have no idea about the historical baggage," says Professor Randall KennedyDid he really say this? Do people not know what the N-word means, and how it was used in the past?
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:11:26 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: sweetliberty
"I love ugly tree note"?
"I love evil tree eightth note"?
"I heart lying tree C"?
What does that rhebus mean?????
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:12:56 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
To: freedumb2003
What does that rhebus mean?????
I Love Country Music - your mind must be too clean
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:14:57 AM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(A race-based double-standard IS racism.)
To: freedumb2003
"I love (vile word)-tree music"
aka: I love country music
I had to ask, too, a few weeks ago.
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:16:15 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: Lexington Green; King Prout
LOLOL!
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posted on
10/05/2003 11:27:17 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
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