August West
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This is the Current Events forum and Byrd`s been dead for quite some time. J.W. Booth was a Democrat too but I`m not responsible for his actions either. People who would have been his cheerleaders are offended by racism today?Byrd was a democrat and in the KKK. I've never been a democrat nor in the KKK, so he wasn't "one of you guys". It sounds like you're saying that as long as enough time passes after a racist act occurs, it's no longer considered a racist act. If that's the case, how long does someone have to wait, and is the time different for Republicans and democrats?What the governor did he did 38 years ago and we know that Byrd was one of you guys 8 decades ago. How much mileage do you expect to get out of those things?Right, because somebody should have their life ruined by something they said as a kid, while a democrat governor skates with no consequences for doing black face as an adult.Nope, I'm saying that we should not be surprised when teenagers copy popular entertainers.Hmmm. A teenager says a thing that her peer group commonly says to each other. Wow, who could have seen that coming? Here's a thought. Maybe that word shouldn't be so prevalent in the entertainment these kids share. Every generation of teenagers uses slang and language from musicians and entertainers that they know will tick their parents off. In the 60's, it was protest songs. In the 70's, disco. In the 80's, hair metal. In the 90's, grunge. And on it goes. When entertainers try to be outrageous to get attention and people get outraged when teenagers adopt their language, the entertainers get exactly what they are looking for. In this case, the rappers won because they got kids to copy them and then get in trouble for doing it.I've never ever used that word and my grandmother, who was a big fan of Joe Louis, instilled in me what aDo you commonly use that word when you are talking about black folks?
nasty hateful word it is.
But I'm not a stupid teenager using language she got from some idiotic rap music.
I went to school is San Francisco with a young black guy who used the n-word as casually and often as you breath, and he almost got his nose busted by an older black fellow who didn't like being called a n*****!
So you're and idiot for assuming I use that term but I am used to some of the blacker posters here
making asinine assumptions about others.
Ruining some teen's life for the one time usage of an ugly word popular in her music is wrong and I
repeat it to you now. IT'S WRONG.
If you want to slander me for my defense of her then that reflects on you.
Not me.
Man if I had 10 dollars for every time I heard someone like you claiming that hung out with someone black or that their best friend was black I would be a millionaire.
Black folks probably make their opinions about you based on your posts. So a white teenager gets her drivers license and the first thing she thinks to say is "I got my license, Nword".
And rap artists flinging the word around like it's nothing more than a standard greeting has nothing to do with it? OF COURSE teenagers are going to adopt it when the musicians and entertainers whose work they admire say it like it means nothing. They know that it's ever so naughty and titillating and will tick their parents off to no end. It is no different from back in the day when teenagers were crazy about Elvis and listened to the radio under the covers, except now they can have their lives destroyed by hateful people years after the fact.Nice that you admit that it is a double standard, but there is no excusing it black or otherwise.More black people use that term than white people ever did. Do you commonly use the term "cracker" when you are talking about white folks? Anthony Anderson does on prime time nationally televised shows. Where is your disgust with that. Pot meet Kettle, hypocrite.Being eight-balled from your prospective college based on one single commonly used word is not a "just desert".Some just desserts can be messy.
You must be a real piece of shit to think otherwise.
Do you commonly use that word when you are talking about black folks?
Haven't seen Anthony Anderson using it on television, so I can't be disgusted with something I have never seen or heard. It is a double standard that black folks call each other that, but you would have to be black to understand it.
Yea it's a double standard, but 2 black men calling each other that is not like a white man calling a black man that. You probably don't understand that, but I understand.
So you are saying that black folks should think hearing white folks using the Nword is normal behavior and be ok with it.
Well then don't be surprised when they face the consequences of using the word.![]()
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