More drunken insights

Originally posted by nonovurbizniz
drinking has lots of benifts...

I see what you're saying but the difference is that noone was yelling "cracker" or "honkey" as a MOB of minorities were stringing up a white guy...

It's just got too much history...

White people find cracker etc funny because it's just a word and has no implications...

Black people don't like nigger because it's NOT just a word and there are MILLIONS of implications...

It belittles the person in a way a white man will NEVER understand...

It all depends on how it's being used... but overall it's just not an acceptable term IMO.

And white people have NO rights to ***** about it IMO either... we've got just about everything else... at least show some respect in your vocabulary.

Yeah, well plenty of groups of black folks were yelling cracker while I walked down the hallways of my high school. And no, they weren't trying to be nice either.....

And what do white folks have? What's this everything else that you speak of?

Moving right along, any word used in hatred is a hate word, regardless of how I perceive it. If I say "what's up my nigga?" that's not a hate word. If I say "fuck off nigga!" then it's a hate word. Same goes for cracker. "How are my little crackers doing today?" Not a hate word.....get my drift?

Sure there's a history but words change with time. Gay is now a negative term whereas it meant just the opposite in the past. Retarded also has taken negative connotations and thus is no longer PC to use when it used to be an acceptable word of no ill feeling to use. Retarded means the same thing as declined, it just doesn't "sound as nice." My point being that nigger/nigga has become an acceptable term to use in some circles of the black community (no, not all black people condone/accept the use of the word for many of the same reasons whites point out) and they themselves have degraded the formerly powerful meaning of the word.

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