Comments on: Burying The N-Word

NAACP Symbolically Buries Racist Word During Public Ceremony In Detroit

[crackafool-2009]

Wow, what a way to completely miss the point and be so out of touch with reality. I think it's pretty incredible how black people took a word that was used to slur them, and made it their own... to the extent that white folk now shake in their boots at the mere thought of using the term.

[davebeeman-2009]

How is it that these not-Caucasian people seem to belive that they speak for a certain community? Its these same people of any color who insist on putting derogatory language in their common vernacular and then cry foul when its used in reply. The infamous "n" word is a nice word to have placed in the universal lexicon of "bad" words, but words themselves are not bad, only the intent of the person using them is bad. Why not remove "stupid" and "dummy" as well. While we're at it, let's have a national campaign to promote grammar and spelling. It seems as though there is a seperate standard for certain ethnic groups that contributes to disparate socioeconomic outcomes.

[SIDNEYWILLIAMSMD]

Julian Bond and company...what a sad group of people who have nothing to worry about except the "N" word which privately they use all the time. In my lifetime it has drifted from various words including negro, colored, black, and afro, to "N." The "N" word is what gets them laughing their buttocks off if a black commedian uses it, and gets them violent if any other race uses the "N" word. No other race has a name which is so emotionally charged in the same way. The NAACP is doomed for this reason...inability to determine a name. How about "American" without hyphens, without qualification. This is what we all are.

[rushlimpdrug]

This sounds like a bad N___ joke.
- To bad the group is itself a big joke.
Millions of cd with songs that youth can hear "N____'s" over and over-
It is now cool and expected to use the word.
NAACP - sorry you came to late to this dance.

[pugster]

I suppose that the NAACP will try to convience black rappers to stop using that word. Good luck.

[dan9111]

I am not so sure. It is a sad commentary on our civilization that we all oppose verbal bigotry, all the while condoning blatant violence in the various forms (such as military action). The symbolism behind this funeral might be comforting, but in the end we are still threatened by the same old evils of racism and hatred.

Those evils are not decreased by word-sensitivity, but in fact are increased. The racists among us all have been given this strength by those to sustain the false-power of words. *** did not demolish "queer" by funerals, but by dismantling the stigma. Taking charge of words does not require anger. There is still a common goal.

However, by a process of elimination, if one word-marketing strategy is best to stop bias among groups of people, then the other ought to be criticized. To my knowledge, NAACP has failed to do so.

[mitch0927]

It's just a freaking word. Who cares about it anyway. Oh yeah, its for all the people out there that will say, "mommy, they called me a name and I want all of them to get fired and do a public apology." Good grief people, there are a heck of a lot more important things out there that need taken care of. What a waste of time.

[Syndicate]

As long as blacks use cracker I will use N_____.

[jjp735i]

The NAACP can bury the n word all they want. But I am tired of teaching my kids not to use that word while their black friends use it all the time. Please don't call it a part of black culture. It's a word no one should be using. Period. You cannot expect one group to freely use the N word and not the other. It will never work until ALL people stop using. So dig deep NAACP, the N word will just crawl back up each time.

[infidel_us]

Wonder if they bothered to invite Snoop and the other trash mouthed hip hop "naggers"???? Didn't the "colored" people pull this same PR stunt last year??? This seems like a retread.

[reel-crazy]

Perhaps they should have buried Cracker and Honky while they were at it so we can ALL get along for a change...

[kailumego1]

It's about time, excellent, now hopefully this will catch on to the rest....