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it's a shame the "n" word is still a part of the vernacular of the ignorant. It's a shame the useless pieces of human waste decided to verbally accost a good kid and that he'll carry that memory with him.
This is how many black people start out hating white people
Seriously, this is more about them being townies than anything else. I experienced this stuff back when I was in boarding school all the time from them. Black, white, hispanics - didn't matter which of us were on the receiving end because the theme was the same. They would try to insult us and act 'tough' because they were losers who had to look at wealthy kids going to a school right in their town which they could never, ever go to.
Granted, his son is young but our usual response was to laugh and say something along the lines of 'you'll be pumping our gas in a few years'. Then we would all laugh among ourselves at our 'wittiness' and continue on in our day. Seriously, this has been going on forever at boarding schools because there is a real division between the townies and students.
Basically, this guy overreacted in a huge way. More importantly, while there were very few mixed race and blacks at my boarding school, every single one of us went to great colleges and are now very successful. Last laugh and all of that. The author really needs to calm down.
it's a shame the "n" word is still a part of the vernacular of the ignorant. It's a shame the useless pieces of human waste decided to verbally accost a good kid and that he'll carry that memory with him.
But life isn't fair, or neat and pretty. He's gonna need to thicken up that skin at some point, the sooner the better I say.
Whats unfortunate is a simple word was turned into something that was an equivelent of an physical attack. Apparently it's a sacred word now. If I was that kid and a couple of white or other kids accosted me and called a Ngr I would assume the guys were going to shoot me next. The societal outlawing of the word turned it into something more powerful then it should have been.
I'm guessing that some people here have never been gut-punched or their face slammed into the playground dirt because they dressed or talked "different" than the bully. They imagine that one person's insult is somehow "worse" than other's. In reality, this about playing victim of their skin color.
Whether the animosity is about religion, race, gender, ethnicity, disability, or any one of 5000 different reasons immature people abuse others personally, it's all wrong.
By minimizing some "insults" and maximizing others, we continue the stereotypes and continue and deepen the divisions among us that should not exist.
The division is already there. You can see that by just reading through this thread. Truth is, you're not going to be able to influence a conservative into taking a stance based on integrity. Not when they can use race as a basis for forming opinions...
Seriously, this is more about them being townies than anything else. I experienced this stuff back when I was in boarding school all the time from them. Black, white, hispanics - didn't matter which of us were on the receiving end because the theme was the same. They would try to insult us and act 'tough' because they were losers who had to look at wealthy kids going to a school right in their town which they could never, ever go to.
Granted, his son is young but our usual response was to laugh and say something along the lines of 'you'll be pumping our gas in a few years'. Then we would all laugh among ourselves at our 'wittiness' and continue on in our day. Seriously, this has been going on forever at boarding schools because there is a real division between the townies and students.
Basically, this guy overreacted in a huge way. More importantly, while there were very few mixed race and blacks at my boarding school, every single one of us went to great colleges and are now very successful. Last laugh and all of that. The author really needs to calm down.
The writer sure did come off elitist about being elite.
Also stereotypical about his own race and used comparisons to areas and a life that he himself did not grow up with.
I went to a majority black school and endured and saw much worse black treatment of whites than what was described in that article as treatment of blacks at a white majority school. In fact, it's no contest. Which is worse, being called a N***** or being stabbed to death or beaten unconscious?
The entire article is merely about someone's kid getting called a N-word, and that it offended him.
I understand that black people don't like that word. And it is perfectly understandable for them not to like it. But the word itself shouldn't be offensive. As many a comedian has said, it is really about who is saying it, and what they mean when they say it. That isn't just the N-word, it is every word.
What we are really talking about here is "respect". The people saying that word intend to be disrespectful, and hateful. But I've been called things by people who I know were being just as disrespectful and hateful to me as any racist has ever been to anyone else.
What we are really referring to are "fighting words". Which are basically words intended to incense people to want to fight. Or at least are intended to demean and/or provoke a response.
Trust me, no young man goes through school unscathed from nasty words, or nasty people. I got into several fights as a young man because people would make fun of practically every aspect of my appearance. I was also "exceptionally short" for my age till I was about fourteen and a half. I was 5'1" and about 100 pounds until I was almost fourteen. I grew a foot in height in about 2.5 years.
In fact, it was so bad for me, that I could say that I've never really won a fight.
When I was short, I lost every fight, and I would even get literally attacked by people for reasons I still don't know. Then when I got tall(I'm about 6'2" now). Every fight I've had since, hasn't really been a "fight" in the practical sense. It was just me defending myself or someone else, usually by holding them down in some way, but without any intention of doing them harm.
With that said, I don't support people calling anyone else names. I would wish for everyone to treat people, at least individuals, with respect. Because I would want to be treated with respect.
As for this article and the N-word in general. I think in most cases, black people are just ridiculously oversensitive when it comes to any name calling aimed at them. To the extent that their constant whining comes off less about a general call for treating people with respect, and more about just them. Which to me is obnoxious and actually pisses me off. Especially since they regularly call each other the exact same name, and are quick to want to "attack"(literally or figuratively) any white person who even repeats the word. Even if they mean absolutely nothing by it.
It becomes a matter of "racial special-privilege", and actually undermines the whole anti-racism movement. If there was "actual condemnation" of the entire usage of the word, and for that matter every other "hate" word, then we might be able to get somewhere. But wherever there is an absence of consistency, there is the presence of hypocrisy. Wherever there is hypocrisy, there is hate.
If you don't want to be consistent, then just shut up. Because you do more harm than good.
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