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LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 07:18 PM Nov 2014

Piers Morgan: If black Americans want the N-word to die, they will have to kill it themselves

According to a new data survey by social media analytics Web site Topsy.com, it will be used, either as ‘n****r’ or ‘n***a’, 500,000 times on Twitter today.

By comparison, the words ‘bro’ and ‘dude’ are only used 300,000 and 200,000 times per day...

Better, surely, to have it expunged completely. Eradicated, obliterated, tied to a literary post and whipped into such brutal submission that it never rears its vicious head again.

But this will only happen when America’s black community applies the same level of tolerance to its own use of the word as that now applied in the National Football League: zero.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829080/PIERS-MORGAN-black-Americans-want-N-word-die-kill-themselves.html#ixzz3IhrmMaom

Did not realize the n-word had become that much more popular than "dude" and "bro", the two go-to words when I was a kid.

It seems destined to become mainstream even among whites, if it isn't already. Is it right for Piers to be lecturing the black community on what words to use? I say it's irrelevant because his efforts will be fruitless anyway. No one seems to want to check anyone in public over the use of this word.
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Piers Morgan: If black Americans want the N-word to die, they will have to kill it themselves (Original Post) LittleBlue Nov 2014 OP
Gotta admit, no one "gets" the African American community like Piers Morgan. merrily Nov 2014 #1
What DON't we have to do? bravenak Nov 2014 #2
 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
2. What DON't we have to do?
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 07:42 PM
Nov 2014

Europeans always find tasks they think we (black people) should do. We need him to give us instructions on acceptable behavior and language. I'm sure that during all of his time hanging out with black people, this was their number one concern. Fuck jobs, racism, the drug war, police brutality; this was at the top of the list.
I'm so glad he is always around to give unwanted advise.

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