re: Maddie Scharfenstein, Sage Ryan and double standard of the "N-word"

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And it is sad that an entire race is bound by a simple word. How pathetic.

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Yes…please share more about how different races are pathetic because they don’t align with your thoughts/words/beliefs on life - should be entertaining for sure

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Nobody cares to say your dumb arse word

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That's the thing. I'm not above an insult...but a racial slur? Really? That's just stupid and lazy.

So I have no interest in saying the word as originally intended, but it chaps my arse that I'm forced to write "the word" or even worse "The N Word" instead of the ACTUAL WORD we're all fricking talking about because some people give it magically properties. It's insane.

It was either last year or this year in a high school English class my youngest son was reading an Ernest Gaines novel in class and they were reading sections out loud. Gaines used "the word" multiple times in the novel so the kids were forced to either reverently pause when they got to it or say some fill in word. This was with ZERO black people in the class. The mere utterance of the word IN CONTEXT and written by a black men for a fricking reason can't even be said out loud by anyone.

How is this a way to live?

That said, I don't care if morons DO want to use it as a slur. Big fricking deal. People say horrible things to each other all the time. Reminds me of the absurdity in this scene from Semi-Pro.

Jive Turkey?!?