I cant use the N word what should I do?

Question

I dont know if its coz i know all the bad stuff that colored folk went through or somewhat. But i just cant use the N word. Sometimes i can hear myself say in my head but when i try to talk somethin real queer happens and i just mumble jumble. Where I'm from my folk need to know how to use the word to keep em in line. I can use wards close to the N word like "Niggard" but then my friends make fun of me cuz they say that I talk like I know how to read.please help I feel like somedat put a curse on me

Answer 1

don't say ****

Answer 2

The only help you need is to remove even the thought of using such an ugly word. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for ANYONE to use that word or even have thoughts about it.

This is America ... home of the Free and the Brave. There is no room in our country for such bigotry.

Tell your friends to grow up and respect American and ALL of its people. They are no better than anyone else... In fact, based on your comments, they are far BELOW the standards of anyone with any common sense at all.

Stand your ground and show your friends what idiots they are being.

Answer 3

I wish I could put a curse on somebody, I did not say you, but say I could.
They would wake up and their nuts would be attached to their chin.
not you.
And they would not be able to say the n word because they would open their mouth to talk, and a penis would have replaced their tongue.
Oh don't marry your sister, I hear she is waiting for a n word.
Why don't you head back out into the swamp now.
Dont forget to put on your helmet now, y'all hear.
You must get tired of bumping into walls.
And I thought Homo Erection was extinky.

Answer 4

its good that you feel bad about saying a word that can offend some, but remember, it has been an important term throughout amerian history (and literature). Today, you don't really have to use it, unless you are showing disrespect, so just dont say it. who gives a $hit if your friends laugh at you. at least you have the ball.s to show respect.

Answer 5

Drink 3 litres of bleach. Oops I'm sorry that should be gallons for the americans.

Answer 6

You sound like a racist prick. First of all black people are not colored ok? Hell everyone in the world is colored even white folks your not really white, your tan. And the same reason you said colored is the same reason you can't say N*gger, and saying N*ggard is the same as saying N*gger and you might not wanna say that in the hood you would get your a*s beat! You D*MN PRICK.

Answer 7

Try using the T word instead.

Answer 8

Sounds like something got crossed up during the inbreeding.

Answer 9

Try an education

Answer 10

Actual they put the curse on your mom.

Answer 11

You can do what those folks did in Los Gatos and refer to some blacks as "reggin".

Do keep in mind that the folks in Los Gatos as getting the tihs sued out of them. See below/

Fired clerk alleges bosses used racist code words

By BARBARA FEDER OSTROV
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News

It wasn't about what the supervisor said. It was about what she said backward.

In one of the first cases of its kind, the federal government has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a Los Gatos, Calif. medical clinic, alleging that a white supervisor used racial code words to intimidate an African-American file clerk.

One of the code words, according to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, was ``reggin,'' the infamous racial slur spelled backward.

The clerk, 29-year-old Tomeika L. Broussard, was fired in early 2004 after she complained to her superiors about the code words, said Sanya Hill Maxion, an EEOC attorney working on the case.

Dr. Robert Aptekar, who oversees the Arthritis and Orthopedic Medical Clinic, did not return calls for comment, and Broussard declined to talk with the Mercury News. The supervisor is not named in the lawsuit.

The case underscores the changing nature of racial discrimination in the workplace, which experts say has morphed from overt to more subtle forms of intimidation.

Employers take these kinds of cases seriously because the damages can be high. In June a jury awarded $61 million to two Oakland FedEx Ground drivers of Lebanese descent who claimed a manager continuously harassed them with racial slurs such including ``terrorists'' and ``camel jockeys.''

Maxion believes this case is the first such case the EEOC's San Francisco district office has filed, although the case is not based entirely on the use of racial code words. She's working on another, similar case that has not been filed yet, she said.

Efforts to reach a settlement in the Los Gatos case failed, Maxion said. Now, Broussard is seeking back pay and undetermined punitive financial damages.

``Even though the n-word is backward, it doesn't remove the fact that it's an inflammatory racial slur,'' Maxion said. ``We're seeing more and more cases these days in which code words are being used to cloak discrimination. We're starting to recognize that this is a problem.''

Maxion said that when Broussard came to work at the 40-employee clinic in June 2003, she was warned by her co-workers that her supervisor used racial code words.

Co-workers and Broussard herself heard the supervisor referring to Broussard -- the clinic's only black employee -- as ``reggin'' and ``N.P.,'' short for the slang ``***** please.''

One co-worker described Broussard's hair as ``nappy,'' a derogatory term, according to the EEOC's investigation. The medical office denied the allegations when the EEOC investigated and said Broussard was not let go, but the agency contends she was indeed fired, Maxion said.

The EEOC is in relatively uncharted legal waters. The federal agency recently issued new guidelines for employers warning them about the use of potentially offensive code words.

In one 1996 case -- Aman vs. Cort Furniture Rental Corp. -- the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that white supervisors and co-workers' repeated use of terms such as ``one of them'' and ``poor people'' in referring to two black employees constituted racial code words that created a discriminatory and hostile environment. In the Los Gatos clinic lawsuit, the EEOC argues that the clinic's conduct violated Broussard's rights under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The EEOC only brings 40 to 50 cases to trial from more than 2000 complaints it receives each year from California and several other western states, said EEOC district director Joan Ehrlich. In other cases, it issues a ``right to sue'' letter and employees can pursue their own lawsuits in civil court.

``We look at the code words: who's stating them, tone of voice, do they mean it in a derogatory fashion?'' said Maxion about the cases the agency pursues. We have to look at the context.''