Comments on: End Of The 'N'-Word In Entertainment?

After Michael Richards' Rant, Black Leaders Ask Stars To Stop Using Racial Slur

[agnim]

"based on your personal attacks on everyone who disagrees with you"

RonnieHM at 07:32 PM : Nov 28, 2006

Again, being obtuse. How can there be 'personal attacks by blips, on a computer screen?
There are no 'persons' here, just written ideas being exchanged across cyberspace.

[ronniehm]

Agnim, based on your personal attacks on everyone who disagrees with you, it seems incredibly unlikely that you're seriously concerned about offending people. It's more likely that you're just an a*hole.

[ckspeakie]

My parents are Southerns - educators - who raised me in Southern California. I never heard that word used by my parents, family or friends. I started hearing the word on rap songs and from my pre-teen son who, because he loves rap music, found the use of the word perfectly acceptable (in spite of my scolding!). The word has been re-introduced into the lexicon and regardless of who says it or why, there cannot be such public uses of the word - marketable products that employ it without others imitating or using it also.

[agnim]

"Just to bring you up to speed, the topic is public uses of the nig-word in the entertainment industry. If you're going to keep a word active in the minds of the black and white people who watch your films or hear your songs, you probably have some responsibility for its continued use."

RonnieHM at 05:46 PM : Nov 28, 2006

Are you really that obtuse? You must be, or is looking for an excuse for racism, which is the root cause of the problem. LOL

It IS NOT the use of the word, per se, that is the problem. The problem is the WHO that is using the word, and for to what end.

[agnim]

"Unfortuneately, I agree that there should be no double standard."

mav80404 at 05:41 PM : Nov 28, 2006

You too with the childish talk about 'double standards'?

If racism from whites weren't a problem, then the word nig.ger FROM WHITES TOWARDS BLACK wouldn't have been a problem, since the word nig.ger coming from whites IS EXPRESSIVE OF THEIR RACISM!

Black friends may call each other whatever they bloody well please. Since whites are historically NOT FRIENDLY to Blacks, they have NO so privileges.

I would dare that rabid racist richards to call Black rappers nig.gers to their faces, even though the Black rappers may freely address each other as nig.gaz.

Likewise, no Black person is going to feel they are at liberty to address whites as rednecks, even though whites may freely address each other as rednecks.

[ronniehm]

"So you want to dictate how Blacks should address EACH OTHER? LOL"

I guess it never occurred to anyone that there'd be one guy in the crowd who thinks we're talking about private conversations between you and your mom or your friend.

Just to bring you up to speed, the topic is public uses of the nig-word in the entertainment industry. If you're going to keep a word active in the minds of the black and white people who watch your films or hear your songs, you probably have some responsibility for its continued use.

[mav80404]

Agnim: Unfortuneately, I agree that there should be no double standard. What you described easily is offensive REGARDLESS of who says it, and should not be said at all. There is a differance... If you don't want me to address you a certain way, don't address others that way, and don't allow ANYBODY to address you that way. It's a simple fix. The double standard exists, and it's uncalled for. My opinion is "the 'N'-word" should not be said by anyone to anyone. Not white to white, not white to black, not black to black, and not black to white. Beyond that, it's futile. Comeon people, leave the double standard and nobody use the term.

[superchez1]

How long is the African-American population going to keep hiding behind these kinds of words to justify trying to move ahead as a people. It was fine when those hecklers retaliated with anti-semetic remarks. If you want the public to follow an unspoken line of right and wrong it's about time the african-american population does the same. They seem to keep using the past to justify hypocricy. African american men betwqeen the age of 15-35 are far more racist toward whit men than whites are towards them.

[gmond]

Apparently it is perfectly alright for Jackson to call NYC "Hymietown", and then demand a boycott of Seinfeld DVDs allegedly for the actions of one person - he just keeps showing his own hatemongering anti-Semitic racism, and anyone who listens to him is a hypocritical idiot.
Oh and btw, Richard Pryor pleaded with the black community to stop using the N word many years ago, and Mooney damned well knows that, he proves he is just another opportunist jumping on the poor pitiful me Jacksonwagon.

[ronniehm]

Kemetorigin, the reason no one uses the word honky anymore is because no one made a big deal out of it, so it simply went away. People use the nig-word because they want to offend people and it works.