why do white people feel like they need to compare themselves with black people how they can say somethings...

Question

i mean compare themselves like how black people can say the n word and white people feel like they cant... if u feel the need to ask the u want to use it... and no one is stopping you from using a word..; just be able to deal with the events that might follow.

Answer 1

I think it's because white people in the US don't have a word that like the n word that is used to describe them. There are derisive words for white people, but none have the same gravity and history of the n word. So it's hard for a lot of white people to understand why not to use it.

They think, "there aren't any words for white people that are that bad so how come there's a word for black people that is so much worse?".

It's a point of view that is at best not very well thought out, and at worst downright racist.

Answer 2

Why would you want to use that word when it has been used to put so many people down in the past? I have no desire to say that word and I'm not intrigued by it either. The point is that there should not be double standards which create more racism. So if a white friend of yours was at a party with you and your black friends called you that fowl word and the white friend jumped in not really meaning anything by it, you would beat the white friend up... so after all is said and done, you are beating that person up because he is white. That is racism.

Answer 3

Oh, please!

If you got beat for saying a word, you wouldn't be too fond of the people barring you from saying the word, now would you?
Don't forget that you are, yourself, being a racist by making a consequence from someone outside your ethnicity saying your a "one-race" word.

Plain and simple, most of us think it's... Stupid.



As far as I'm concerned, everyone has the same rights in the U.S. So this is not meant to be offensive (you should already know that)

But different ethnicity's have different privileges, interestingly enough.



And by the way, everyone.
Caucasians are so numerous, most of us do not have an extreme culture. It is blended with minority cultures. Therefore, we do not even NEED our own channel. We have HUNDREDS.

Answer 4

For the same reason I feel differently if a man calls me a bi*ch vs. when a woman calls me a bi*ch. It is different. Women / blacks / Hispanics / homosexuals are the ones fighting for equal pay, or rights etc., and fighting negative stereotypes. We're the underdogs. If I say something really f'd up to a guy, he's mostly like going to be bigger than me and could seriously hurt me (I'm very petite). So I don't say it - because I know who ultimately has the power, the last say, the ability to put me into the hospital. A guy though doesn't have that perspective - he knows he has the power and takes advantage of it by degrading me. It is messed up. And all this can occur because I said "no, I don't want to dance with you" at a club.

Answer 5

FOR THE same reason that if you put the "N" WORD in a cd or a song that you expect me to pay money for as an artist you have given me the right to use that word. THE ARTIST has taken away the offense or the power that word has any longer. rap artist and black's should be more care full of the usage of the word them selves. THAT freedom is passed on. I DON'T AGREE WITH using that word but it should either be left out of the vocabulary or made less offensive...it's like Gay's have taken power of the word fag or queer so that it doesn't offend there part of culture. does that makes sense? I'M not trying to be offensive and i apologize if I AM ... I WAS JUST curious! thanks!

Answer 6

i do no longer understand how previous you're. you will have not performed something, yet there's a mind-blowing possibility that your guardian and for confident your grandparents did something. i'm confident your grandparents can remember a time while blacks had just about no rights. in case you're white ( i'll think of you're) probability is your granny ought to no longer say issues to you approximately how undesirable she dealt with blacks back interior the day. yet a Granny this is black and lived interior the process the civil rights stream is confident going to bypass on the information to her little ones and her grandchildren. She earned this genuine! So if there is any reality to what your asserting, and that i do have confidence you. are you able to truthfully no longer understand that what blacks experience you should owe them is only only R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Answer 7

i would never wanna be compared to another race. im proud of my colour and thats that.

i do not support kkk and hate crimes, but
how do u think white people feel, black people get all sorts of funds and schools and diplomas and white people pay for it all. black people get public housing, white people just get homless. and black people have a Proud To Be Black parades and everything else. if white people had that, it would be called hate and KKK.
and dont get me started on the black author who wrote the book "Exterminate the White Man"

what about the black and mexican gangs that are constantly commiting hate crimes against white people, raping and robbing and killing. But wait, its only a hate crime if a white person is the perpitraitor

how do u think white people feel when the media is constantly watching us waiting for us to say something racist when people like Dave Chapelle and Richard Prior constantly get away with racist slang and everything else. even tho I dont support Michael Richards' rant, its about time that black celebrities are put on the spotlite for their racial slurs. just because slavery was 400 years ago doesnt give anyone the right to still use that against white people. every race was slaves at some point in history, so WTF? i personally think that some black people try to use this as an excuse so they can get free money and a free and safe way to play the race card.

Answer 8

the "n" word is so much more than a word. Its been used to inflict pain . Blacks took that word n used it among themselves, and it changed the meaning within that group. In using it with eachother black people took the power and pain out of the word. But like jazz, hip hop, rock n roll, funk, reggae and who knows what else white people always want to infiltrate and dominate. So now you want to go from, "Git to work nigge*", to " wus up my *****" you cant do that. when that word comes out of a white persons mouth it will only mean hate and pain.

Answer 9

We place entirely too much importance on words.

Words by themselves are meaningless. Words are given meaning by the context and syntax in which they are used. The N word means Black, means African American, means *****.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's actions we should pay closer attention to.

Answer 10

someone wrote about BET and why a White Entertainment Television cannot be made. The answer for this is because Blacks are a minority while whites are a majority. its not more than that.