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[stickykeys633]

NAACP Puts N-Word to Rest in Mock Funeral

Members of the NAACP from South Carolina are traveling to Detroit for a funeral. But no one has died, instead they're saying goodbye to a word. Basically the gist is that the NAACP spent time and money putting on fake funerals for the word "Nigger/ah/a". They want it abolished from the general lexicon and

Comments

[kalbear]

Because I'm feeling perverse...

Is it okay to say it as a white person when you're singing along to rap?

(my answer is no, but that's because it's never okay to sing along to rap)

[stickykeys633]

That, and no, heh. If you must sing "Can I Get A-" by Jay-Z then say "nuh-uh" or "neighbor" which will add a whimsical flair to it. I just like substituting neighbor in general, because it can't be any cornier than suburban whitefolk spitting gangsta rap anyway.

It's worse for me because I don't cuss at all, so really the only word I can say in it IS the n-word!

[redcoast]

There is like no chance that the Willie Lynch letter is not a fake.

[stickykeys633]

There's always a chance B, there's always a chance.

Regardless though, I'm sure the things within the letter were definitely in practice. Splitting up families, psychological breakdown of the strongest, divide & conquer, etc.

[redcoast]

Seriously, it is so fake and probably written about 1990, so if it's accurate, it's accurate because the writer knew history.

[stickykeys633]

I know Becca, and yet, I still don't care, heh. It's a great pastiche of the times if anything, even anachranisms aside. It may not have been official, but that doesn't mean something like it never existed, or again, that its contents weren't in practice.

The invalidation of that letter doesn't invalidate the horrors of slavery, you know? That stuff happened, whether it's recorded or not, because it's effects are still seen to this very day.

[xpashax]

I didn't get the Imus backlash. He's said much worse in the past and nothing was really done about it. When he finally got his, I didn't hear anything about what he said in the past, just what he said that time. I guess it was just more weird to me because Sharpton was like, the head inquisitor, and I grew up in Poughkeepsie so Sharpton is a joke to me. But hanging a guy because he flipped someone off when he'd been throwing rocks for years and never mentioning the rocks just struck me as weird

[xpashax]

You're only getting paragraphs out of me this time because I happened to have been thinking about race issues a lot lately. ;-)

[stickykeys633]

And I appreciate your response a lot, I always do

[xpashax]

I was wondering if maybe there was a regional difference. I know from my travels that racism is a lot more acceptable in the south, but I know next to nothing about the Midwest in general (other than Ohio is where New Yorkers go to get fireworks), or Nebraska in particular. But after reading around on some forums about Lincoln and racism I see some similar reactions to what I just wrote. Maybe I just have blinders on. Since I don't harbor a hateful attitude, I don't really look for it in others, but I also bear resentment from being accused of racism by someone who's had to deal with it more regularly than I have.

I missed the first season of apprentice, I've heard so many bilious things about her that I've got had my DVR set to catch the reruns since the day I got it. And I wasn't really seeking your permission to use the n word or anything, I just wanted my position to be clear without having to fret over rubbing you (or anyone else, really) the wrong way to make my point.

Yep.

[i_dreamed_i_was]

I don't think I have anything to add, except elaboration on the Rutger's vs. ho-acting women point... Like you, I think it's BS either way, but there is a difference between making generally misogynist statements and directing a misogynist slur towards an admirable and specific group of young women who did nothing to bring attention to themselves except achieve athletically.

Re: Yep.

[stickykeys633]

And no one really talks about the implications of the oversexualizing of African American femals and how it directly contrasts with the view the Rutgers team put out.

Meaning if you could look at the Rutgers team and think "nappy headed hoes" then the brainwashing is still in place and it's being broadcast to several thousand listeners. My goodness.

YANNO?!

[i_dreamed_i_was]

Clearly in his mind, any black woman that is not Halle Berry = nappy-headed ho.

Re: YANNO?!

[croupier]

Halle Berry is still Black?!

/goes to the corner

[maurarose]

I am whiter than the damned Queen, but I know this to be true:
The point though, is that if a black person asks you not to say it, then don't say it.

I think that ends the argument. We do not have the right to say it, any more than a man is allowed to call me "bitch". Actually, no one is allowed to call me "bitch".

Perhaps you've rarely heard the n-word pejoratively from whites because you are not black.

Then he's lucky. I still hear white people use it. Or maybe you mean he doesn't take it to be a perjorative, but instead just white people echoing what he hears black people saying.

[stickykeys633]

Yes, yes, and yes, specifically with the b*tch thing. That still irks how commonplace that's gotten, but when I hear it from men it always makes me cringe a bit.