I don’t think anyone should be using the term, but if Blacks want to I’m not going to take them to task for it. I think it’s idiotic, but what the hey. They’re not using in the pejorative sense, putting each other down or denigrating each other by doing it. I just think it’s a word I’d never use.
When Whites use it, it is different. We may not like facing that, but it is.
That Deen would actually use this term completely destroys any respect I could have for the woman. The word is so racially charged, and the use is so offensive, it conveys an unacceptable mindset when a person uses it.
When Whites use it, it is different. We may not like facing that, but it is.
I have to admit to using it, but only as a reference to BEHAVIOR and/or ATTITUDE. It is applying the same standard under which I'd call someone white trash.
Example: Cory Booker isn't one; "Reverend" Al is one and St. Trayvon was one.
(Donning flameproofs)
I used to agree with your line of thought, but putting hate crimes on the books changes the game. Now, to keep up with these idiotic laws, it should be equally evil for all to use the term.
want to bet, they do use that word to put each other down.
I loved in a ghetto for some time while I got on my feet, besides hearing cracker and “white boy what yu doin ere” crap.
I was called nigger, spick, wop, light bulb.
Racism is alive and worn with a badge of honor in the black community because they know they can get away with it and because dopey whites defend their racism and the way they live.
I totally diagree with you. I think it’s worse when blacks use it against each other than when white’s use the word. They most certainly do use it to denigrate each other. They are the ones to claim to be hurt by the word, therefore they shouldn’t be using it at all.
I don’t like Paula Dean because she’s a big fat liberal, not because of her use of a word.
Deen described (to her husband, in private) a situation where a black man came into a bank and stuck a gun up side of her head. She was mad. I’d be mad, too, and might have called him worse. - There is no private any more; only PC, and people with your mindset nod approval. - We are not allowed to buck Obama on anything, because he’s half-black, and that would be RACIST! Meantime, he’s taking this country on a ride to who knows where. All aboard!!
Out of all the replies to the above statement, no one has asked, "Pray tell, how is the meaning of a word different when the skin color of the speaker is white?"
As a follow up, what other words have different meaning in America dependent on the color of one's skin?
Not always D1. Ever see the 9 minute skit on youtube by Chris Rock talking about racism? THAT'S denigration in it's highest form.
Whats the difference in white people using the word rappers use it all the time and so do comedians!!! Plus this was something that was said 30u years ago. Why is this person filinv a lawsuit after 30 years? Does it make sense to you? It does me!!! Money!! Thats all they want!!!!! If people dont like the word then make rappers and comedians stop saying it fire them to!!!! Its so stupid this whole world is crazy!!! And dont look like its gonna change anytime soon looks like its gonna keep gettin worse!!!