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Why calling black people 'niggers' is not racist.

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If a northerner said the same about the south he'd be labeled a bigot or racist. Just when were you in Boston that you saw such segregation? :doh Boston proper certainly has a healthy black population.

The US Census states that blacks make up 17.4% of New York's population. That's almost a fifth of the state!
New York QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

I think perhaps you were clocked in the head a little too hard by Katrina. To say New York wants nothing to do with blacks is well, "uninformed" at best. Damn man, we have a black Governor.

Come join us in the 21st century.
 
If the Negro or Colored or Black or African American or whatever is not a racist and admits after the fight that he wanted me to call him a “nigger,” then “calling black people 'niggers' is not racist.”
 
What I see here is a bunch of liberal whites trying to convince a liberal black man that "nigger" is racist.

This is absolutely amazing! It's what conservatives have always suspected. :doh
 
ADK_Forever said:
If a northerner said the same about the south he'd be labeled a bigot or racist.
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I was called a racist because I'm a Southerner. And now I'm calling Northerners racists. See how that works?

Just when were you in Boston that you saw such segregation? :doh Boston proper certainly has a healthy black population.
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If the part of Boston where all the blacks and Hispanics live becaume its own city, Boston would be the most lilly white city in the country instead of the third most white. It would be like all white. There is very little integration there. I went to the Quincy Market and never saw so many white people in my life.

The US Census states that blacks make up 17.4% of New York's population. That's almost a fifth of the state!
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Isn't that the city that puts them all on a reservation called Harlem?

New York QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

I think perhaps you were clocked in the head a little too hard by Katrina. To say New York wants nothing to do with blacks is well, "uninformed" at best. Damn man, we have a black Governor.
Come join us in the 21st century.
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Please do. Stop throwing dog poop at the black's houses when they move into the neighborhood, or whatever it is youse guys do.
 



So you are prejudice against against Northerners... How is that any different than being prejudice against Aferican Americans?
 
winston53660 said:
So you are prejudice against against Northerners... How is that any different than being prejudice against Aferican Americans?
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Why aren't whites called European Americans?
 
sazerac said:
I was called a racist because I'm a Southerner. And now I'm calling Northerners racists. See how that works?
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Yes. Very enlightened of you.
 
Tucker Case said:
Because honky is good enough for 'em.
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That is the noise mitochondrial Eve from Africa used to make before we were kicked out of Eden by the racists. {see National Geographic picture of albino in Africa, way, way, way back in the stack}
 
DivineComedy said:
That is the noise mitochondrial Eve from Africa used to make before we were kicked out of Eden by the racists. {see National Geographic picture of albino in Africa, way, way, way back in the stack}
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You know I looked at your signature, fyi a wall have been proven to be quite effective. History has proven its effectiveness compared to no wall.
 

I will go as far as suggesting that even when blacks use it on themselves it comes across as vulgar and offensive. This word needs to vanish from our lexicon as a bad reminder of an embarrassing past with slavery and abusing a race simply for the fact that they were uneducated and black.

I find any defense of this word offensive no matter who is doing the defending.

There's my :twocents:
 
winston53660 said:
So you are prejudice against against Northerners... How is that any different than being prejudice against Aferican Americans?
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African Americans are not an area of this country.

My being prejudiced against Northerners is no different than someone being prejudiced against Southerners.

It's ok with you if someone calls Southerners racists. You say nothing. But the minute someone calls Northerners racists you get upset and feel a need to post.

Interesting.
 

Words are to communicate - including sentiment and emotion. The N-word came to be used so greatly as a hate-slur, that became its meaning. Words evolve.

That has made it difficult to communicate now without straining to be politically correct - as in not insensitive or insulting. For example, we use "African-American" for blacks (negroids) - when millions of Africans of N. Africa actually are Arabic. Other blacks are generations away from Africa - such as from the Carribean. So whites can be called "Caucasians" or "Anglo-Saxons" (even though not all whites are "Anglo-Saxon"), but blacks are called by a geographic term - "African-American" rather than "Negroid" because then it sounds like you are using the N-word.
 
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jamesrage said:
Don't liberals argue that all speech is legitimate and that our founding forefathers created the 1st amendment to defend unpopular speech?
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There's a huge difference between free-speech and hate speech. There's also a huge difference between unpopular speech and hatespeech.

jamesrage said:
That is a load of crap hypocrite excuse. IF you do not like the word then do not use it other words do not bitch or scream hate speech just because other people use the word.
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No, it's not. It's a sociological phenomena seen in many opressed populations i.e. the feminist magazine "Bitch", the use of "queer" as a self-used umbrella term to describe LGBT people, and of course, "nigger" when used by black men. It is, as I said, a way of trying to rob a vitrolic slur of some of it's power against an opressed group. If groups shat on by society what to do it as a way of taking power back rom those who opress them, I see zero wrong with that.
 
Infinite Chaos said:
And they're making a big mistake by doing that. All you then see is others who enjoy the idea of calling black people by that name say "see? they do it so why can't we?"
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If they're too stupid to understand the difference between screaming a word to cow and humiliate a specific group, and a specific group trying to rob a hateful word of it's power, that's there issue, not mine. Additionally, if they "enjoy" throwing around racial slurs, they'd find some other way to justify it to themselves.
 
The use of this word is disrespectful and stupid..We do not need this crap in our nation, not now, not ever..
As a nation, it is time we grew up !
 
I just think it's plain, ole ugly to call someone that regardless of it's origins.



Just my opinion.
 
Pitwolfy said:
I just think it's plain, ole ugly to call someone that regardless of it's origins.



Just my opinion.
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I agree. The few times I have ocassion to use it (but never to call someone that, just as a literary shock), I cringe even typing it. And I can't even make myself say it on the first attempt ever.
 
Anima said:
[:2wave:There's a huge difference between free-speech and hate speech. There's also a huge difference between unpopular speech and hatespeech..
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No there is not. Speech is speech. Maybe in places like Canada and other politically correct ****ed up countries they made a so called distinction between the two, but not here in the US.



Regardless of the reasons it is hypocritical for one group of people to piss and moan about another group using a word if they themselves use that word regardless of the context of the word being used. If you actually believed that the word was racist not only would you not use it you wouldn't tolerate others using it regardless of their skin color or the context in which they are using the word. The only thing you are doing is defending blatant hypocrisy.
 
jamesrage said:
No there is not. Speech is speech. Maybe in places like Canada and other politically correct ****ed up countries they made a so called distinction between the two, but not here in the US.
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Actually, we have. It's called hate speech and hate crime laws. We even have one right here over DP.
 
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