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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)33. It's become black or white
On the N Word though. From SOME white liberals even right here at DU - people who make money off a word used AGAINST them are in the wrong. The word must be eradicated. That's what I read over the summer.
But house negroes - in the same context (making money of a word used against blacks) is okay.
If someone who is considered radical refers to Corny that way - all hell is going to break loose at DU. . Watch him be protected.
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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