[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.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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". 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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[norton]

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.

[expatguy]

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.

[xm177e2]

"People use it but have no idea about the historical baggage," says Professor Randall Kennedy

Did he really say this? Do people not know what the N-word means, and how it was used in the past?