An interesting anecdote:
Jackie Robinson actually had many try-outs with major league teams before he was signed by the Dodgers - one of the first was with the Boston Red Sox. He, along with the immortal Josh Gibson and a few other players, worked through a full skills workout in Fenway, decidedly out-performing the white AAA players running through the drills with them. As they left the field, a man yelled from the box seats behind home plate, "Great workout, but let's get those niggers off the field."
That man? Purportedly Tom Yawkey, famed Red Sox owner and philanthropist.
Now, the point is not to deride Tom Yawkey, nor to excuse his behavior as being a 'reflection of his time' or whatever - instead, I'd like to ask you this question:
You think an analogous situation ever arose with regard to white people? Did the word "cracka" or any other such nonsense ever come up in this sort of situation?
There's no sort of history behind these supposed white racial slurs. Your views are implicitly flawed by ignoring this fact.
FACT!
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Originally posted by thermobryan
True, they don't make it known, but should you have to complain about everything all the time. But the simple fact that most (not all) people dont feel that its wrong calling a white person a racial derogitory remark, and calling any other race an equal remark is unexcuseable. Take an example, if you saw that a group of white people were complaining about the words "cracker" and "honkey" etc were being used on television and they were protesting then most people would think they're crazy, right or wrong? The simple fact is that there is a double standard, and god damn it dont say im racist here. Whites can be trashed to no ends of the earth, its becoming as if theyre a joke topic now. But to make fun of a minority is a crime. Sorry, but I get offended if I'm called a cracker or white trash, because its a derogitory remark. Yes there are worse things you can call me, but putting me down isn't really high on my list of things to tolerate.
Whether the people complain about it or not, people advocating racial harmony and rights should see every side of the table. Do you think that calling white people crackers and honkeys is really helping race relations?
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