So how come black people call each other ******?

[Theben]

Originally posted by Verto
Black people are racist.

We live in a racist society/world. Everyone is racist, to some degree.

I am very systematic... Systems see no color, only racist n-words.

The fact that you had to state that negates your own assertion.

And disavowing color only upholds the status quo.

[DinoDoc]

Do you have a burning desire to shout out the word ******? If not then what does it matter?

[Pax]

Originally posted by Verto
Does that make it acceptable?

I don't feel comfortable with the word because of it's double meaning. In black american society it means one thing in american society as a whole it means another. I think in the future it will have only one meaning because of the effect rap music is having on american youth.

It's like being an arab in america. It's a custom to use a specific hand for a handshake and the other for sanitary purposes. here in america we don't have the same customs but that arab can maintain his culture in american society.

In the end I think it's acceptable for african americans to use the word in the non negative it's being used. I do not think it's okay for whites or any other group to use it as a racial slur. I feel discomfort when I hear white youth using it in their way but I do understand that they are not using it as a racial slur.

Also, english is a living language words do change in meaning with time.

[David Floyd]

I don't think blacks are any more racist than white people. Blacks all over the world do have a cause to dislike Europeans, So do Asians, Arabs, and Latin Americans. Don't feel like people are racist because they resent their forefathers being kidnapped and enslaved.

That's stupid. Blacks in Africa were selling other blacks into slavery, so if blacks have a good reason to hate white people, then they have just as good of a reason to hate black people too

[Verto]

Don't forget the Indians were taking slaves.

It is just much more profitable to go after certain groups.

[Caligastia]

It's mostly whites that are offended by the use of that word nowadays.

[Theben]

Originally posted by David Floyd


That's stupid. Blacks in Africa were selling other blacks into slavery, so if blacks have a good reason to hate white people, then they have just as good of a reason to hate black people too

Yeah, but who was buying? Whites and arabs.

[Japher]

I agree with Theben. The same educated black person will use that word among his black friends. We blacks grow up on that words. We here our role models use it. It really has a different meaning when blacks use it.

That is why it is wrong... I am getting liquored up right now, but the FACT that you grew up using the word, and the FACT that it is DIFFERENT when you use it, make a lot of difference in why black communities are generally less affluent than others, and generally feel ostaziced from the rest of American society which they lable as THE MAN... It isn't so much the WORD, but that CONNOTATION.

[Pax]

Originally posted by David Floyd


That's stupid. Blacks in Africa were selling other blacks into slavery, so if blacks have a good reason to hate white people, then they have just as good of a reason to hate black people too

I love apolyton.
I'm not going to justify the blacks involved in the slave trade in this thread or any other. It's stupid of you to say it's okay just because some or a lot of blacks were doing it. The major benefactors and the people running the middle passage where white. The blacks who were involved in the slave trade were fools. I doubt they would have done it if they new the consequences of their actions. Even if they would have done it regardless it was still wrong white or black.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Caligastia
It's mostly whites that are offended by the use of that word nowadays.

wrong answer- please try again.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Theben


Yeah, but who was buying? Whites and arabs.

What difference does that make?

[Theben]

Originally posted by Japher

That is why it is wrong... I am getting liquored up right now, but the FACT that you grew up using the word, and the FACT that it is DIFFERENT when you use it, make a lot of difference in why black communities are generally less affluent than others, and generally feel ostaziced from the rest of American society which they lable as THE MAN... It isn't so much the WORD, but that CONNOTATION.

Japher, you shouldn't debate under the influence.

[Verto]

On a related subject, has anyone noticed the increase of the word "jew" being used in the context of "that's jewish" or "I got jewed" ?

[Japher]

Japher, you shouldn't debate under the influence.

True, but

a) That is the only time I actually debate instead of spam
b) I am right


Words have power

[Pax]

Originally posted by Japher


That is why it is wrong... I am getting liquored up right now, but the FACT that you grew up using the word, and the FACT that it is DIFFERENT when you use it, make a lot of difference in why black communities are generally less affluent than others, and generally feel ostaziced from the rest of American society which they lable as THE MAN... It isn't so much the WORD, but that CONNOTATION.

Blacks are disenfranchised because they are the other in this society. In any society there will be a group that is labeled as different. That's the way it works. The fact that you ask me to not use a word that was good enough for my father in the way he used it is to say sell what little of your subculture you have left. It's like asking a chinese american to stop speaking chinese.