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In reply to the discussion: NY case puts N-word use among blacks on trial [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,811 posts)5. I always wonder why
Non blacks are so anxious to use that word OR conversely - are but willing to outright outlaw it as a way to eradicate it's use and meaning from American History. . . now that black rappers make millions and millions of dollars off of it. I wonder why that is?
Or why SOME white folks are okay with black folks (good ole corny west) calling everyone from Melissa Harris-Perry right on up to President Obama House Negros.
Hmm - that's okay in some 'parts' and HE gets a free pass and worship . . . yet let a black person call a black person . . . or make money off of it and . . .
And well - we know the rest.
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You can use it. I don't care and I'm a woman. I think giving these words ALL THIS POWER
valerief
Sep 2013
#4
I disagree that using it as he describes would reduce the power, because we didn't give the words
spooky3
Sep 2013
#7
"no white person has ever used that word in a complimentary fashion, and never will"
bunnies
Sep 2013
#16
I'm not talking about this incident. I'm talking about the right wing tactic of
valerief
Sep 2013
#30
It surely does. To pretend otherwise is absurd, and obnoxious. Probably deeply ignorant, as well.
Judi Lynn
Sep 2013
#21
I tried in vain to curtail the use of that word when I was teaching middle school
marshall
Sep 2013
#35