Thug is the new Nigg**!!

[Dont call me Shirley]

245. Read....

"Yesterday in the comment section, there was some consternation over the word paleface. There were claims of being hurt and offended at the label. Paleface is a descriptor; it is not now, or ever will be a slur. If an Indigenous Person chooses to use the term, it is done in reaction to a history of racism, and does not come from a place of purposeful oppression. Even if said Indigenous person were attempting to debase a White person, the fact of the matter is, that there are no words or phrases, that carries the same sort of impact of any slur a White person could call an Indigenous person.

Part of the reason that these words have so much impact, is because they come from a place of power. Historically speaking, people of colour have not had the ability to wield any form of power over Whiteness. No Black person ever tied a White person to a whipping pole and scourged their body, while calling them a honky. Until recently, no person of colour could even address a White person with anything but deference, because of the dissonance in worth and value, and therefore; to suggest that worlds like honky, paleface or cracker have any significant meaning is ridiculous."

Yesterday in the comment section, there was some consternation over the word paleface. There were claims of being hurt and offended at the label. Paleface is a descriptor; it is not now, or ever will be a slur. If an Indigenous Person chooses to use the term, it is done in reaction to a history of racism, and does not come from a place of purposeful oppression. Even if said Indigenous person were attempting to debase a White person, the fact of the matter is, that there are no words or phrases, that carries the same sort of impact of any slur a White person could call an Indigenous person.

http://www.womanist-musings.com/2011/04/lets-talk-about-supposed-slurs-cracker.html

Read the entire article, wow, it really puts the whole issue in clear perspective