Hey those condoning Michael Richards behavior!?

Question

This non-sense that we call each other the N word is ridiculous. Are you around black people and if so are in the hood or something. I have never used that word to anyone and neither have my friends.. I have friends from every race and never used a derogative name to any of them.

If what the black comics say really offend you speak up. There is a history with the N word. I'm not sure if it's age or just a callousness that makes anyone not see, those words have a real negativity behind them.

I do wish the rap industry would stop using the altered version of the N word, but I doubt that would stop a racist from being a racist and use the word anyway.

I am not looking for validation from anyone and I encourage every black person and anyone else to have the same attitude. I am proud to be a productive citizen.

Leave an honest comment in the space provided. No biggy.

Answer 1

I think that people who want to use that nasty word are looking for a scapegoat by saying you all say it to each other, when they know good and darn well the only reason why they want to say it is so that they can be hateful (which is not what other blacks are doing when they use it with each other) without everyone jumping on them ! no sex kitten we should not GET OVER IT! If that is the case then every atrocity that has happened throughout history should be forgotten about also.... but I am sure you just
want to forget about the bad treatment that blacks have received in this county while you keep acknowledging other events...right?

Yeah I am pretty sure that if blacks stopped calling each other that word whites wouldn't say it gmafb lmao

Answer 2

Ekmt, I personally was shocked and ashamed, for the enduring episode that Michael Richards put on last Friday night, at the Comedy Club in L.A.
I cannot believe that this guy, no matter how much I used to love him as "C0sm0 Kramer" on Seinfeld, the loveable KOOK next-door, whom he portrayed on that show; that what he has lately demonstrated, mostly because he DIDN'T let up, for more than 2 minutes, has let me down.

Here is something that I have never told to another person, anywhere, anytime:
When I was 6 or 7 years old, I was standing in line at the local (the only) theatre, with some other people, including my two friends, Ella and Eula, twin Black girls, and my friends, even at that age, OK? We all were laughing, talking, etc., when along came some older, teenaged boys, and they began calling my friends that dispicable word....
I was then, and I am now, deeply mortified by that memory, of my friends, those girls, who had never done anything to these boys, who looked like me,but older, and they got called N*****s.
I cried, I ran, I ran home terrified by that incident, and even now some 30+ yearslater, I remember vividly my deep shame, my fear, from that time, long ago.
I have never uttered that word. It is so much more vulgar, so profane, so evil, and much more than other nasty words, that we all let fly from our mouths;

**God Almighty will ask of us all one of these days, "Exactly, what did you mean, when you called him, her that hateful, blasphemous name?"
And I want to be able to tell HIM, that I never called another one of HIS children, that offensive name.

Answer 3

I'm not sure what your question is, but I am sure that the many of the white people in the U.S. who use the 'n word' now, would cease using it if the black people in the U.S. ceased using it.

But of course, most of the black people in the U.S. who use the word now will not stop using it.

I support free speech. I don't call people the n word or any other racial slur. But, whoever wants to say the word should be able to say it without fear of violent attacks. Regardless of the existence and practice of racism, if a certain word or words is okay in the vocabulary of one race, then it should be okay for all. Anything else is B.S.

There would be alot fewer racists in this country if instead of 'supporting diversity', we concentrated on what we all have in common. One race using racial slurs while other races are forbidden to is divisive. Everyone should be held to the same standards, regardless of race.

Answer 4

I dont think we should use the N word or its slang pronunciation any more than we should use paleface, spick, wop or nip...

None of these words was created to be polite!

What is wrong with Mike, Nancy or Sir...never a problem when we say Mr. Johnson either!

Answer 5

Sex Kitten, sweety I think you are in the wrong forum, I think Britney Spears needs your opinion if Kfed misses her.

I think I have seen most if not all of Seinfeld show. I am not able to watch it anymore after that display of lack of common sense and decency.

Answer 6

I think what Michael Richards did was awful. Nobody should say those sorts of things. I'm white and I would never say anything like that. It's wrong.

Answer 7

i have purely study the incident myself, no longer considered it... yet i do not imagine it variations seinfeld. i wager richards type of IS kramer to me because i have not considered him in something else... so i detect i ignore that there is a actual human being in the back of the placement.

Answer 8

What this situation is REALLY about most people are missing. It is not about Michael Richard's racism -- is about the double standard that blacks expect in America. If a black comedian uses the word "honky" or "cracker" nobody bats an eye because whites choose to not be offended by those terms. I could not care less if some black comic calls a white person a cracker or a honky. But blacks have chosen to create this taboo aura around the use of the word n i gg e r so that no one EXCEPT BLACKS CAN USE IT. Blacks call one another n i gg e r all day every day and no one is supposed to bat an eye. It is all right if blacks use it. But whites can't. Mexicans can't. Asians can't. Only blacks get to use that word. What if we as whites suddenly said that only WE can use words like, "graduate", "not guilty", "educated" and we said that blacks cannot use those words--only WE can. Blacks would be screaming within five minutes that we were racist. Yet when blacks choose to only get to use the word n i gg e r it is the EXACT same thing. That proves that blacks don't really mean it when they claim they want to be treated equally--they don't. They want SPECIAL treatment. In effect, they are saying, "WE can use this term but no one else can." Translated that means, "We want to have special privileges that others don't enjoy." Therefore in an ironic twist that only O.Henry would truly appreciate, it is the BLACK community that really demonstrates the most racism over this whole Michael Richards episode much more than Michael Richards does. Ironic huh?

Answer 9

Michael Richards needs to go to rehab rather he needs it or not.

Answer 10

I don;t know, no one i know uses it either. I don't get it, especially if you are a famous person and know that lots of people are listening to you, what a dumbas$, his career is definetly over now.