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Originally posted by GorgeousNikki:
The "N" word is unacceptable...(he is Norweign. His exact words were "I hear you people call each other "Ni**er" all the time, how was I to know that it was an racial slur"
Dang y'all!
Exactly. He didn't know, we may wish that he did, but he didn't. Now the sista could have made it a teachable moment, and EDUCATED bro-man on WHY the word is so troublesome. The he could have expressed his confusion at hearing Blacks use the word, and she could have educated him some more. Instead, he's confused, and has a lump where his eye shoulc be, and she's off the show feeling salty. Yeah, we get tired of having to be the "educator", but that's life.
[B]I once heard someone say that they can use it because they own their blackness. [B]
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Owning your blackness and owning a word designed to denigrate blackness are two different things. The sooner we learn that as a people, the less we'll have to deal w/ people who "hear [us] people use the word...all the time"