“I’m trying to figure out how it got the name to begin with..”
Probably back when white thought it was an appropriate name to use.
There are a lot of ethnic pejoratives still hanging around as descriptive terms. They are offensive and should be changed. I wonder when Perry obliterated the name on the sign?
“More importantly, when is the black community going to be outraged with rappers who use that word with impunity?”
Not being black, I can’t answer for them.
But other ethnic groups have members who think its cool to use those terms among themselves or even with other people. Maybe they feel that by using them, the terms loose their venom. They are incorrect of course and these terms should not be used by any self-respecting, thinking member of any particular ethnic group and that, I suppose explains why those idiot rappers use that term.
The femminists used the word “bitch” to suggest power as opposed to a slur...I hardly think Perry is a racist as he grew up with poor Hispanics, etc.
the biggest racist and promoting the division is Obozo!
I heard that when Perry was in college he also read Joseph Conrad’s famous 1897 novella, The Nigger of the Narcissus.
“Maybe they feel that by using them, the terms loose their venom.”
I would not give them that much credit. It is nothing but “in your face honky - I can say it, but you better not try it”. Until we get off our knees and grow some backbone, they will continue to cast their “self- righteous” spittle in our faces.