What do you think of the goals of this website which is dedicated to ending the use of the n word?
www.abolishthenword.com
2006-07-01 04:48:44 · 10 answers · asked by aurastin 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
i have an article on my 360 page that asks the question "How Far Have We Really Come?" that addresses this very subject. one of the posters said that the n word has too much blood on it. i totally agree.
Maya Angelou made a very accurate analogy some years ago about the n word. she compared the difference between poison in a bottle with skull & crossbones being poured into a glass of fine crystal. no matter how pretty the presentation - poison is still poison.
that lesson stuck with me forever.
for those of you who want to visit my page & answer the poll, my page is listed below. peace.
2006-07-01 15:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by jakiterry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance on this subject is widespread, and if people would just take the time to do a little history, and find out just what the word really means. It does offend me when someone who "hates" the word being directed at them so much uses it so freely amongst those of their own kind. Then again, it's okay for them to call the whites names like cracker, but it's not okay for the whites to call them the n word. I feel that neither should be done, and that what happened in the past should stay in the past, but be used for us to learn from, and progress forward, not backward. Then again, you have those that are still "angry" about the whole incident, and many of which that weren't even affected directly from it. Look at this though, there are many benefits that have been derived from it, and there are those that abuse those benefits each and every day. Makes us all wonder just why we have this debate??
2006-07-01 05:05:27 · answer #2 · answered by iiboogeymanii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your site is wonderful and I'm glad someone put the time and effort into showing the true light of the "N" word instead of the way we try and cover it up in the way we want to hear it and people do argue that only black people can use the "N" word but why calling our selves "N" that's disrespect to ourselves. And you talked about how rappers/singers use the "N" word a lot but there is no way to stop them because they where not told the real damaging affect of the word but we need to educate our children about the real "N" word and not what people try and make it seem
2006-07-01 05:09:16 · answer #3 · answered by OoO_manda_bearz_OoO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a very interesting topic, some may say that it is necessary but if you look up the definition of the word it doesn't say anything about black people it just says and ignorant person so therefore i don't care if people choose to associate it with my race for i know that only the african american race has figured out this fact so who is the ignorant one?
2006-07-01 04:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good....every one have the right to be called whatever they want to be called. Objecting against a label in a formal manner is a good idea and should yield some results.
2006-07-01 04:53:02 · answer #5 · answered by Taimoor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I THINK ITS GR8 that they're tryna abolish it.
some (dumb) rappers use it ta say "my hommie" now.
[whatever).
P.S.- the n word does not mean a black person.
back then, white people just called black people that so now we think it means a black person but thats not what it means!!!
2006-07-01 04:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by honni~graham 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's necessary. That word has too much blood on it.
2006-07-01 04:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by lucy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know because i am not black!
2006-07-01 04:50:20 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BEATS ME
2006-07-01 04:50:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ILL GO CHECK IT OUT THANKS.........
2006-07-01 05:22:15 · answer #10 · answered by zone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋