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A nigger can never had more than white man. If he does, something ain't right with the world.
you made me laugh out loud.
http://abolishthenword.com/
It is not poetic.
it does not add meaning.
It is offensive.
We the people don't get to erase language.
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When you fail to be offended at the word, idiots have nothing else for you. That's their trump card. And they showed everyone else how ignorant they are. remove the power from the word, and they have nothing else.
To get back on topic, this kind of thing (portraying a black man as an elitist) is so ridiculous as to HAVE to be true.
The only way to abolish the n-word, is to abolish the behavior. If our brothers and sisters would wake up and realize the damage we're doing to ourselves nothing will change. We have to restore our self-respect, re-establish and re-define what is the black community…please believe it’s NOT the ghetto!
Powerful site by the way...I've been a fan for awhile.
It still belongs to such phrases as N----- rich, and "I’m just a N-----. I am not offended personally, but I do not need that word to express anything about Black people. There are idiots in our community, which might come out of their idiocy, if we would abolish the word in our community.
Someone needs to ask Matthews how it is that Obama is too "elite" for working-class white people, yet not too "elite" for working-class Black people.
Or how about this: if Barack appeals to well-educated elitists, then should we conclude that 90% of Black folk are well-educated elitists?
Chris Matthews had a born and bred, democrat from West VA on Monday night, and that gentlemen said simply, “the white folks where I am from do not tend to think of black people as ELITE, least of all Barack Obama”. He also stated that on average the poor white people in WV think of black people as oppressed just like them. His main point was if Sen Obama can get the culture he can get the votes. Not like going to NASCAR and being a poser, but genuinely make them understand that he has an agenda that includes their needs.
Telling his truth.
White elites we worked with tended to believe the workers were stupid and/or lazy. Because the workers were doing jobs our family members did or aspired to, we viewed them as smart and capable. They responded with genoricity and cooperation in SC, GA, TX, and NC. After hearing their stories, I understood many missed the opportunity of a fine and complete education based on circumstance not capability.
If Michelle and Barack can exhibit openness and empathy, they may be able to reach these folks. It is important for the GOP to portray them as elite, Muslim, angry Black People, Affirmative Action succes stories, or anything else to keep the working class from listening. Affluent whites have been preventing working class whites from joining with Blacks and other oppressed since before the Civil War.
We have an obligation to get the truth out.
I should read furthur before posting the previous comment. But your point is the same as the white gentleman from West VA. Very well said.
kenya
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Chris Rock has this joke about how he, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, and Denzel Washington have to be the best at their respective crafts just to live in the same neighborhood as white people with mediocre wealth and positions. Offensive racial slurs aside, I think that what the first poster said has truth - I think there are still some white people who think: how dare black folks attempt to have as much as or more than whites! Then when these bigoted people see black folks with nice things and accomplishments, they have to downplay the achievement: "They could only afford that house because they got an unfairly low interest rate... She only got that job because of people trying to curry favor with her husband... They only have those degrees because of affirmative action... He's only in the running for this nomination because his blackness is a novelty..." It's pathetic, all this resentment.
Off topic: I believe that refraining from the use of that word has nothing to do with trying (unsuccessfully) to strip white folks' power in using it and everything to do with not giving acceptance to a word and concept that was used to justify lynchings, redlining, discrimination, and other things that happened to our parents and ancestors.
They did not need the word nigger or negro (black) or Niger (the river in west Afrikan) as a tool to oppress and destroy. They would have done it in silence if need be.
Just because some ignorant people could not properly pronounce Niger (ia), to describe the people from that region, does not give them license to own the word or it's meaning... for the most part.
Let us not give so much credence to the word that we give it more power than the hate that resided in the people who mis-pronounced it.
I agree that it sounds harsh and should not be used often. But the brother up top was making a point.
But when we use it on each other, it is evidence of the power of the oppressors who gave us the word, which remains with us as so intertwined with our image of ourselves that African people are actually arguing for their right to use it and embrace it. Talk about power - talk about a mind job! Its continued use by us is the result of a combination of apathy, internalized hatred, and having bought into the lie that we can change its meaning. Yes, having a funeral for it was asinine. Yes, losing all sense when someone uses it on us is unnecessary and regards the word too personally. But if people really want to strip it of its power, not even bothering to use it would be the very best start.
Through its use, it needs to become a way for idiots to label themselves rather than a way to rile up black people. We need to take the power (over us) out of the word, completely. Then it's use doesn't matter.
I fear it's actually worse than that. Rove's comment planted in the mind of every white man the vision of a black Barack Obama at the country club with the beautiful white date.
The dog whistles to the white boys are "country club" "beautiful date" and the phrase "holding a martini and a cigarette, leaning against the wall" which implies a sort of cool generally attributed by white men to their black counterparts.
I don't think I've said this lately, so I'll just throw in here that I detest, despise, abhor, am sickened by Karl Rove. There fires in hell hot enough to give him the roasting he deserves.
I mean, doesn't that appeal to the very idea of American Apartheid? That our society would never tolerate Black folk being "better than" white folk?
That is not to say I in any way defend what Rove said. He is an idiot.
i am speaking to what the white boys heard with that
dogwhistle.
it's just like what they did with harold ford, jr. . . . OF COURSE
"beautiful date at the country club" does not, in the real
world we live in, imply that the date is white.
my point was that this was a coded message to a particular
group of people and i am convinced it has less to do with
depicting obama as elitist than it does with depicting him
as infringing upon the white man's territory.
just my opinion, honed from years spent around these
country redneck motherfuckers.
just for the record, i think michelle obama is one of the most
elegant, lovely women i've ever seen. normal people would
not make the assumption about color here.
the whistle is not going out to normal people.
Well thankfully those white boys or anyone who heard the whistle were not voting for Obama in the first place so Rove message wasn't a very effective one. And I will be smiling ear to ear when the country club whisperer and his followers are faced with a new kind of leader.
you're not the only one who thought like this. That he wasn't there MARRIED. And, with Snowflake. Undermine his marriage AND paint him as an elitist. Totally disregarding Michelle.
Oh you just better stop with the code cracking. It darn sure made me think of a white date not necessarily Mrs. O in that country club.
You are good girl.
Oh and to be sure, soon enough a picture of Sen Obama's "long time" white ex-girlfriend will surface close to October. Watch and see!
Among other things, I wonder how much she was paid to create that 'BIT OF DRAMA' Additionally, it was an INSULT to Mrs. Obama! But, that "DRAMA QUEEN" didn't seem to mind! OUTRAGEOUS!!!
But, I use that world regularly in my personal life and on my blog. I try to moderate my usage around folks who aren't comfortable with it, but I'm not attending the word's funeral..
However, I don't believe there is such a thing as "nigger behavior." That's shows an amazing amount of self-hate. Trifling behavior has no skin color and calling something "nigger behavior" or saying someone is behaving like a "nigger" is just buying into the white man's game.
The way I see it, all black people are niggers and all niggers are black people. The word nigger was just a slur that white folks created to show their distaste for us.
That's interesting, because when I hear the word from white people and call them on it, I almost always get one of two responses:
(1) I have LOTS of friends who are black and they don't mind;
(2) "Nigger don't mean just blacks, you can be a white nigger if you're trashy."
I would never say that word, ever, ever, ever. The potential for hurt is too great and once said, it can't be taken back.
I watched my grandkids' hurt response to an old buzzard at my health club pool who called them "little niggers." I could have killed him.
We all are responsible for how others respond to our words. If our use creates hurt for others we need to stop.
"I watched my grandkids' hurt response to an old buzzard at my health club pool who called them "little niggers." I could have killed him."
This idea of white n----- I do not understand. They are usually called white trash.