2007-02-09 17:51:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
ugh, you use it? weren't you taught manners?
now, do you really not understand that when a member of the historically oppressor class uses a word against a member of a historically oppressed class, a word that's been an important part of dehumanizing those oppressed folks, that this is different from a member of the oppressed class using that word? really, you don't get that? that they took the word to strip it of its power?
Like the difference between a man and your girlfriend calling you a *****? you don't get it?? or are you just angry that you can't call black people racist names? I mean, really, i have never ever used the word, ever. Why have you? Why do you want to?
Why are you looking at the splinter in your neighbor's eye and not the log in your own?
2007-02-09 17:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by cassandra 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know either, but it's a double standard that's just makes no sense.
Knowing how the word was used, to call another person by that name, shows how little respect you have for the people who were beaten and killed because they refused to be called by that name. It amazes me how easily it rolls off of people's tongues, when less than 40 years ago, they would have been protesting and risking their lives to keep people from referring to them and their children by that name.
And then, these same people turn around and get highly upset when someone, who isn't Black, calls them that, like it's a badge of honor. I think it's an insult to their parents and grandparents.
2007-02-10 02:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by Reality check 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So they can complain that we are prejudice even though they can say white boy and that dumb white girl that can be just as offensive but you don't hear us crying around it would be different if someone was using it racially on purpose but n word is used in rap and joking around all the time my husbands family is colored they are laid back and use it freely because they are not the type to get pissed for nothing they also make fun of us for being the only white cousins.
2007-02-10 02:09:19 · answer #3 · answered by LuvnLife 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The term is offensive. It is a BAD slang word that is used in the young black community. There are leaders trying to get the word out there for it to stop.
2007-02-10 01:56:59 · answer #4 · answered by redjade_916 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you know thats a really good question..... white people are not supposed to call them that... but we are just supposed to brush our shoulders off if they say anything out of the way that might offend a white person.... i dont have a problem with black people at all... i have some black friends... which now of course they act just as white as i do... and they dont mind when people say that word around them.... if they know them well enough.... but i have enough of respect that i wouldnt do that... im going to treat others the way i want to be treated myself
2007-02-10 02:03:51 · answer #5 · answered by twobabyboys21 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To take the power of the word away from ignorant white people who should know better.....I am whiter than rice and I know this fact
2007-02-10 01:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
because not all black people use that word I dont.
2007-02-10 10:53:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm white but why do whites always want toget in on the act.You ain't in the club...get over it....honkey.
2007-02-10 01:59:26 · answer #8 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea. I am offended by the "n" music.
2007-02-10 01:55:32 · answer #9 · answered by know it all 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
quit being stupid, stupid.
I'm black and I don't use that word.
get your freaking facts straight.
2007-02-10 11:17:48 · answer #10 · answered by venom! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋