beagle9
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Yet it can only be used in the context by what the blacks were using it in or for themselves upon exceptance of, and not in the context of racism or defamation of character against the blacks in a sneaky way because they also use the word now. This is the only way in which to be excepted by the blacks if a white person joins in by way of the use of this word or label into a conversation.I refer to black people as black people, not ******* or Afros or whatever they hell you like to call them. What would happen if you called a black person a ****** to their face? You wouldn't be here right now.
I had a black man staying in my home and he referred to a black as a n...I told him I didn't care if he was black, that word wasn't allowed in my house...he never used it in front of me again.
I always think of Afro as a hair style but it seems to me that if you're calling yourself an African American, Afro's as good a nickname as anything....I must have missed something...when did "afro" become synonymous with the "n" word?
Ariux isn't using the term Afro as a shortened form of African American. He's using it in a racist way, because he is a racist.
I agree with you about the N word, I don't think anyone should use it, but if a black person is happy to use the word to describe themselves or their mates, then it should be okay for a white person to use it, too.
It is my belief that the word being used by blacks upon each other as they are doing, was a way to try and change the meaning of the word from a negative to a positive in their thinking, where as it would take away it's sting in which the early white racist were using it for. Not a bad idea by the blacks in trying to change the meaning of the word in which it was associated with for so long, and I see it as smart by them in doing this... So it all depends on how whites are joining into the conversation when using the word by claim of "hey (the blacks) are also using the word" so what ? It all depends on context, always. If used out of context, then a person will be found out immedaitely by what they mean when using the word, so no one is fooled when placing the persons usage in context with the reasoning in why it is being used, and by what manor it is being used for.