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Originally posted by RUgreek
A statment like that just sounds ridiculous at best 
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Um...would you mind elaborating? I will go first. What I meant by that is sort of what neicy81 said earlier. In America, althought there have been several isolated incidents of black-on-white hate crimes, THERE HAVE NOT BEEN NEARLY ENOUGH TO EVER EQUAL THE NUMBER OF HATE CRIMES PERPETRATED BY WHITES ON BLACKS. One or one hundred isolated incidents do not indicate anything in the grand scheme of things. Because stats and facts and anything concrete you may care to reference will tell you that OVERWHELMINGLY hate crimes are perpetrated by white men. In fact, your life experiences alone may jade your persepctive, but they will not cause a significant change in the big picture. Get it?
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The only reason why I even went to that whole "ownership" scenario, which I regret now because it's really just making this post a big ugly mess (my fault), is because this has been a problem before with the n-word. Apparently on a different debate, there is this whole ownership argument that has to go with who can use or freely say the n-word, and i felt there was a correlation between the two.
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Ownership of the n-word? My view on that is that it shouldn't matter to you who owns that word. It is not your concern. Why would YOU want to use it? Whether or not a black person chooses to use the word is up to them. Worry about yourself, not who chooses to use what word.
I have never understood why this has been such an issue for non-blacks. Why on earth would anyone else care or want to use the word so bad, knowing its connotations?