Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
You get a pass because you do not know the history and meaning of the word. It was used against any brown skinned person is a derogatory and offensive way. Naz use to get called it a lot, so did Takaloo. National Front used it a lot in the 1970's, it really is and should not be a debate, but is surprisingly is. I am not jumping either, just dismayed.
OK, thank you for taking time to explain the history of it's use to me, it does offer insight on the topic.


The point I'm trying to get at is in the end it is just a word and people should not allow a word to upset them, to make them angry, and evoke the reaction that the people yelling that word want. They want people angry, frustrated, emotional, stirred up, they want them to lash out but also to be victims, they want people to feel helpless.....no different than what Ali did to Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, or George Foreman. No different than when Roberto Duran spit at Ray Leonard's wife. There comes a time when a word should mean nothing because it meaning something gives that word power over a population.

The NAACP gave the word 'nigger' a symbolic burial complete with coffin and all, but I don't think they have followed through in destroying the emotions that word conjures up. Saying "n-word" is just ridiculous, it makes people seem like they're in kindergarten.

I guess that takes a unified and unanimous effort to rid those words of their emotional values, but maybe it's time that happened. But hey, I'm just a white dude and I get irked at being called a name here and there so I guess I won't ever understand the true feeling of being called a racist name as being white has always been kind of a popular thing though there are plenty of ethnic slurs but again my people came from the British Isles so not much to bitch about there.