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re: "The N word" - OTL program currently airing on ESPN
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:08 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:08 pm to PrimeTime Money
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But you shouldn't be carrying that baggage in 2014.
Who are you to say what "baggage" black people should and should not be carrying? That is the height of presumption on your part.
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That stuff is in the past just like WWII, the Holocost, Revolutionary war, etc.
Bet you won't go up to a Jewish person and say something off color about the holocaust. I wouldn't.
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Young white people today had nothing to do with any of that
No one's blaming young white people today. Least of all me. I married one of them, after all
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Young white people are just as disgusted that people were treated like that in the past.
That's true.
That's also beside the point, though.
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Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:09 pm to MontyFranklyn
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Today it happens when a middle aged white male feels disrespected by a black teen and decides to unload a clip in the vehicle.
Who's to say he wouldn't have done the same to a young white teen?
This post was edited on 2/23/14 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:09 pm to TejasPete
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America oppresses blacks
Didn't say that. Way to put words in my mouth to further your lack of discussion, though
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I'm out, Daytona 500 back on.
No, it's still in rain delay. I'm watching it, too.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:10 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Am I going to hate Dirk Nowitzki because of the Holocaust?
You're equating some black people being uncomfortable with whites/other races using the word to hating white people/other races.
You're mistaken.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:11 pm to PrimeTime Money
I kind of see your rationale in this but its still different. I think you feel that we harbor hate for whites, but we just want to convey why we are sensitive to the word.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:11 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I'm native american. We were the first ****s
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:12 pm to geauxranger54
Got a little NA in me. Also Irish and German.
Black is what shows up, though
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:13 pm to TbirdSpur2010
quote:People who would get offended at a white person saying n**** in a non-racial context are obviously carrying baggage.
Who are you to say what "baggage" black people should and should not be carrying? That is the height of presumption on your part.
Look at Shari Sheppard get pissed off that Barbara Walters said n***** in the contexxt of a news story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrJCuQjs2k
She can't even explain why she doesn't like Barbara Walters to use the word.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:14 pm to geauxranger54
quote:No. **** is derived from negro which is derived from the Spanish word negro(Na gro)
I'm native american. We were the first ****s
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:14 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I knew I always liked you
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:16 pm to geauxranger54
quote:And what was don't to NA was just as bad
geauxranger54
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:16 pm to PrimeTime Money
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People who would get offended at a white person saying n**** in a non-racial context are obviously carrying baggage.
And they are entitled to their opinion whether you like it or not.
And most black people can understand and have little problem with folks saying it in, say, an academic sense.
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Look at Shari Sheppard get pissed off that Barbara Walters said n***** in the contexxt of a news story:
LINK
She can't even explain why she doesn't like Barbara Walters to use the word.
Your anecdote doesn't demonstrate much beyond the fact that Sheppard wasn't able to articulate that which we have been discussing in this thread off the cuff.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:16 pm to geauxranger54
Blacks are allowed to be racist and carry hatred for shite that they weren't around for.
Us white people will always be evil.
Us white people will always be evil.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:19 pm to Marciano1
Congrats on missing the entire point of both the ESPN special and the current discussion
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:19 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Your anecdote doesn't demonstrate much beyond the fact that Sheppard wasn't able to articulate that which we have been discussing in this thread off the cuff.
She said "I don't like it when white people say it." Point blank.
Judging a person by their skin color.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:21 pm to bamafan425
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She said "I don't like it when white people say it."
And most black people don't.
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Judging a person by their skin color.
No, judging what they say. Quite different.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:23 pm to TbirdSpur2010
quote:No, judging strictly by skin color.
No, judging what they say. Quite different.
Barbara just repeated what Whoopi Goldberg said. Sherri said she had no problem with Whoopi saying it but was offended when Barbara said it because she's white, even though the word was not directed at anybody and she was just repeating it.
Did you watch the video?
This post was edited on 2/23/14 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:23 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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No, judging what they say. Quite different.
She said to Barbara Walters (paraphrased) "Even if you said it right, I still wouldn't like it [because you are white]."
The reaction to the word is based solely on the speakers skin color. Put Barbara's voice in a black person's mouth and she reacts differently.
This post was edited on 2/23/14 at 7:25 pm
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:24 pm to Marciano1
quote:I'm sorry that you want your racism to be openly accepted. Forgive me for threatening your white privilege
Blacks are allowed to be racist and carry hatred for shite that they weren't around for.
Us white people will always be evil.
This post was edited on 2/23/14 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 2/23/14 at 7:25 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Barbara just repeated what Whoopi Goldberg said. Sherri said she had no problem with Whoopi saying it but was offended when Barbara said it because she's white.
Which is still judging by what people say. There is a distinction to be made.
What you're implying is that because Sheppard had a problem with Barb saying it, Sheppard hates Barb. That's not the case.
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Did you watch the video?
Seen it several times
Usually gets trotted out in these discussions as a strawman argument, tbh.
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