The NAACP held a ceremony to symbolically 'bury' the 'n' word during their annual convention in Detroit.
This is a message to the hip-hop & rap industry, white people, and black people with an inferiority complex to quit slinging slurs as a standard operating procedure. Read the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_on_re_us/naacp_convention_n_word;_ylt=ApcXTXBMmu4_05PDL6BK445H2ocA
What do you think? Will it work? Do you want it to work, or is it just political correctness?
2007-07-09 05:32:52 · 3 answers · asked by nora22000 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The NAACP has a good record, though--they buried 'Jim Crow' about 40 years ago, and that worked. People would think it crazy to treat anyone like a slave, although that was common practice before it was 'buried.'
Do you think there's any chance for effectively 'burying' CALLING people slaves? Or are words inconsequential?
2007-07-09 06:38:33 · update #1
No it won't work. What will they all call each other then?
2007-07-09 05:37:29 · answer #1 · answered by Troy R 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. We will only use it more. Why waste taxpayer money on these "funerals" for something that will not work? They had one in Pearland, TX a few days ago, and I think the groups that do this should be heavily fined for mismanagement of funds. Black people are too easily offended. You don't see white people rushing out to bury the word "honkey", do you?
2007-07-09 12:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by Lord Vader 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is all totally stupid. It can only be buried when people stop taking offence to it!!!
2007-07-09 12:38:28 · answer #3 · answered by J. P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋