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

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

[fatzone]

Well%u2019 this just go's to prove it'
No one person has a monopoly on ignorance.

[ld_kool_2006]

Has everyone forgotten how Jesse Jackson called Jews "hymies"?

[ms38654ob]

Hey, if you can use a word, I can use it too, regardless of the word or the meaning. Anything else is unaceptible.

If blacks want non-blacks to not use the 'N' word, then they have to stop using it too. No double standard!

[olgreyghost]

Great, because a word is considered offensive, some people want to ban its use, but we have to ask where will it stop? Remember the raucus over the use of the term "*********" a few years back? That term has no racial undertones, but what the heck, Orwell was only a few years off...

[mav80404]

mleigh22, I hope you are right. I just want EVERYBODY to be on the SAME playing field... no "it's ok for this race or that race, this creed or that creed, to say and/or do this thing or that thing." Let's just all get on the same page and decide what is and is not acceptable. What is acceptable, don't gripe and complain about (ANYBODY), and what is not acceptable, don't do (ANYBODY)! Seems like a simple enough solution to me. Why do people insist on making it 200x more complicated than that?

[mleigh22]

You know what I cannot wait for the day (although i will never see it) When there are no races. We will just be one big mixed race. That day is coming and then the stupidity and ignorance won't be an issue anymore.

[mav80404]

Naber1961, you took the words right out of my mouth. When will people of ALL RACES, COLORS, AND CREEDS stop jumping the "racist" term wagon?! And don't blow me any junk about "*****" being different than "the N-word".... It's the exact same word that was put together out of a slang from people who refuse to learn the basics of the English Language Pronounciation. It's the same word. Be careful all those who say that they are two different words... Because otherwise people will be using "*****" instead of the other term... and it says right here in the article it is acceptable. I like what my Drill Sergeant said the 3rd day of Basic Training... "NOBODY will use that term... not even blacks... because *I* can't use it, so neither can you! FAIR IS FAIR!" I agree... no double standard. Let's put the works on level ground and all agree to either not use the term altogether, or stop complaining about people using it. The way I see it, anything other than those two options is simply hypocritical.

[kemetorigin]

btw, who still uses honky? I haven't heard that in years.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are opportunist who only represent themselves and the unfortunate ignorant souls who haven't the deliberative faculty to stand for themselves. Kramer is not a real issue. Institutionalized racism is. I worry about the closet racists who do not hire minorities, red line minority districts to restrict voting rights, destroy educational opportunities, and whose wives bump into you at the supermarket without even the slightest hint at excuse me because saying such to a person of color enrages them.

[kemetorigin]

***correction***
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[kemetorigin]

Speech is protected as long is at is not used to incite a riot, panic, or violence. Thus, Kramer's use of the word *** in its context is not protected because it was used vehemently to provoke someone else. Comedians are heckeled all the time. It goes with the territory. Comedians are expected to ignore and continue with their material as are athletes when they are taunted in stadiums. There is no difference. I concur with Eleanor Roosevelt, no one can make you feel inferior without first having your permission to do so. Thus, the word *** has no power unless you allow it. Why are whites so angry about this and using it to dry imaginary and impossible parallels to Chris Rock and Chappelle?