11-04-2007, 09:49 PM
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Pixies Den Mother
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: No-Hockey Land, dammit!!
Posts: 11,897
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IK (hope you don't mind my abbreviating your nick),
I really appreciate your well reasoned, and clearly stated response. I can't really disagree with anything you said. It does disgust me, and angers me when I hear young, and not so young black people using that word when they talk to each other. It makes me cringe. And then you have the Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy types that pepper their comedy routines with it.
What really gets me though, is close friends will call each other by this epithet, but if I were in their circle of friends, no matter how close we were it would not be accepted for me to use it. I don't mean that I want to, I'm only pointing out the disparity.
One other point I'd like to make is again about the inequity in reprisals for using racial epithets. Some time back, Jesse Jackson was making a speech and in referring to a Jewish neighborhood called it "hymie-town." In my opinion it was equally wrong for him to say this. But what happened to him? Nothing. Not to mention all the hatred toward Jews and Whites spewed by Louis Farakhan(sp?). They are allowed their hatred, but let "Dog" Chapman, or Don Imus say something racial you have the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson wanting them fired, thereby taking away their livelihood. I'm not saying that the Dog or Imus were right......they most certainly weren't....but why does it seem that it's alright for people of color to hate and give public voice to that hatred and suffer no consequences?
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