Monday’s “burial” of the N-word at the NAACP’s annual convention in Detroit was great symbolism. A pine box under ground makes a fitting resting place for a slur that has caused so much hurt for so many over the past century. Still, the word won’t be dead until it’s unheard in comedy routines, hip-hop lyrics and on the streets. And there are many other offensive words still in use. As Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said, “We have to bury the ‘pimps’ and the ‘hos’ that go with it.”
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The only people I hear using it these days are blacks. I rarely hear whites use it anymore. I guess that is how far we have come.
Kev I am seeing the opposite, but the whites are not using it against blacks or about blacks. They are calling each other the N word, “Nigger you lying!”, “Hey Nigger what’s up?”, “Broke ass Nigger!”. And this in a small town, the teens are using it thinking it make them sound cool. Last week we almost had an incident when a group of teens were walking through the store and one was talking to another. As they passed the only black man working there. One of the teens said “Hey Nigger what you want to do after we leave here?”. Fredrick thought that the teen was talking to him and showed his offence ordering the teen from the store. The rest of the group tried to assure him that it was not directed toward him and assured Fredrick that the guy was not meaning any offence but it was just what they called each other!
I agree, it is one of those words that even said in joust has no humor in it. I have never understood when someone calls their friend “Bitch” which to me is also an offensive word. I do believe that the younger generation really does not see these words as off limits. They are not meaning anything by using them, to them it is just words. Even using them as a term of affection. Sad….
This is a farce extraordinaire. Let’s see if hip-hop complies.
It ain’t gonna happen unless they turn from their secular ways.
You know, racism is still alive, but in more insidious ways. It’s a good thing that they buried this horrible hateful word. I really hope blacks stop using it too.
“Still, the word won’t be dead until it’s unheard in comedy routines, hip-hop lyrics and on the streets.”
The word shows up here way too often. I think all posts that include should be erased. Zero tolerance is my recommendation.
Meanwhile, the NAACP at their convention again rejected a proposed resolution expressing opposition to abortion because of abortion’s disproportionate impact on minorities.And meanwhile, the scientific community continues pretending puzzlement at why the black community suffers 3 times the premature birth rate and 3 times the infant mortality rate, while also suffering 3 times the abortion rate and the consequences of the scarring of the mothers, some of whom later conceive again, only to face more tragedy.Now would have been a good time for the black community, targeted heavily by the abortion industry, to initiate retaliatory class action lawsuits against abortionist quacks like Tiller for the long-term consequences of their butchery.
Writerdog,It’s kinda funny how black folks use the n-word toward each other with casualty, but if white kids start doing it, it’s immediately an offense. If you don’t let it bother you, realize that is is simply a word in the vast English language, then it loses its power.
The is little respect for others now days, many young people think nothing of using the “N” word or any other vulgarity anytime and in front of anyone they please, it’s just another example of how our kids have been let down by society and parents for not teaching them manners and respect for others.
Mary,Look at who they have to pattern after. If they are into hip-hop, enough said. But the others… Look at how adults behave these days. Traffic, grocery store, anywhere. If the 80’s was the ‘Me generation’, then this decade is the ‘Me and ONLY me’ decade.
zero respect for anything other than themselves.
They were probably calling the lady bleeding to death on the ground a Nigger as they stpped over her to continue shopping…
White people are not the ones feeding this word, it is black people now.
That’s so true, how can you expect others to respect you when you don’t even respect yourself?
“And meanwhile, the scientific community continues pretending puzzlement at why the black community suffers 3 times the premature birth rate and 3 times the infant mortality rate, while also suffering 3 times the abortion rate and the consequences ”
I am real leery of racial statistics. I have found that many of them are inaccurate or less than honest. I actually had it out with a professor on a radio call in talk show when he came on and said “black family income is 30% lower than white family income”. I called in and asked him how that study was conducted beginning with what the criteria for “family” was. Turns out they included single parent households as “family” which of course is going to skew the income levels because blacks are far far more likely to be unmarried heads of households than whites are and 2 incomes is always more than 1 income.
And the average racist POS like Jonas can’t say anything about minorities that doesn’t reveal his own deep-seated need for a kind of false superiority.
Get help, you sick bastard.
Ian Santiago = cabron
Hey, Ian–
I asked you a long time ago if you ever watched “American History X” and you never answered.
Capn,
I am not Santiago, you seem to have that guy on the brain. He seems to be your very own Scarlet Pimpernel, he is here, there and everywhere, huh?
Back to my post, what I stated is true. The black community needs to put its’ own house in order rather than wanting to ban words, confederate flags and such.
We ahve had forced integration, affirmative action, and spent trillions in social programs on blacks and all, seemingly for naught. Blacks need to clean up their own mess and soon.
F*** you, Ian.
You’re the only poster who for no apparent reason leaves about 5 lines of dead space above your post.
What a maroon.
Stay in Canada and leave Kansas alone, Cabron.
It is true that African Americans need to take more resposibility to make positive changes in their culture. As long as most of their children are born to single moms, the cards are going to be stacked against them from the get-go, and that’s true for eveyone, not just the black population. Any pop culture that promotes the idea of crime, illicit sex, pimps, ho’s, etc. can’t have a positive influence on young people, black or white. If you go through life looking and acting like you’re some sort of criminal with a bad attitude, then you shouldn’t bitch about the fact that people will treat you as though you are. In the real world, people do judge a book by it’s cover.
“It is true that African Americans need to take more resposibility…”
How dare you. Bigot.
It is true..you could take more too, Fleet. We all could. Blaming someone else for your problems IS the biggest problem most people have.