Monday, August 3, 2009
Fxckin' Racist
Me and a few of my friends were casually strolling the city the other day when on about three seperate occasions, people drove by and shouted "go home niggers!" and things of that nature. It didn't really bother us though. And that scared me. It feels as if our generation doesn't take the "n" word serious anymore. But it could've been because we knew we couldn't do anything about it so we just laughed. But I do kind of feel like if they said it in front of us I would've punched them in their fuckin' faces. Basically my question is, does it seem like the "n" word is being taken much too lightly in our generation?
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Ok I don't believe so because I would not laughed I would of got it crackin! I've been praying for somebody to call me the n word cause its over with. But I do believe blacks is taking it lightly when we call eachotha the n word because I know I use the n to other blacks!
ReplyDeleteHmm, this is quite a good question. I believe that a word is just a word. I don't think that it means much. Me, I'm a mutt, I am a mix of several different ethnic groups. so the odds of me becoming offended by names are very good. However, names are names and some people are stupid. I think its good that people can use these words loosely.
ReplyDeleteMarquis, that is terrible.
ReplyDeleteI want you to consider what you've labeled your post. Do you think that that title is offensive? Do you think that calling people something else in response to being called a name further perpetuates the problem instead of having a conversation for a solution?
Recently, I heard two black men call an Asian man, Fukudome and hit his car. Is this racism? I thought it was, but I didn't say anything. Am I implicitly invovled by being quiet?
HMmmmmm,i think people don’t take it offensive as much as they used to and I think that the way it should be like that. but to black men would sit up and call each other a Nigga and then get mad if someone else from another race call them a nigga Why is that???
ReplyDeleteDisagree!!! Yes it doesn't matter what a person says but the n word from a white person is totally disrespective and its just like somebody spitting on me thats totally disrespectful. Maybe because I lived in a racist town and Chicago its alot of blacks so....
ReplyDeleteLol I meant disrespectful.
ReplyDeletei dont think the "n" word is taken seriously anymore, because black people use that word all the time in casual conversation. but they get mad when white people say, by no means does it make it right, but why should it be okay for ethnic groups and every culture be able to say there "hate" word, but no one else can say it. I think black people brought this upon themselves because they use it as a part of there everyday vocabulary, so how are they gonna get mad when someone else says it, but its totally just for them to be able to exchange that word freely..
ReplyDeleteObama has not always been someone who I thought would change that issue because there are other groups he has isolated too. Obama is not a proponent of the GLBTQ community. Don't you think that, in order to change all of this labeling and hatred, we have to accept everyone?
ReplyDeleteThis came up at the movie in the park last week. If you read the play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (and you should), there is a homosexual subtext. For the movie, they changed this and emphasized the issue of women and the treatment of women in the south. This seemed like an okay change because, at the time, women needed to be involved in society and the world "wasn't ready for the homosexual subtext." I don't know, is that right, to change the movie and the meaning? Is it okay to think the world isn't ready for something?
Sharmaine, why only from a white person?
ReplyDeleteLook into the history of the word. I know that cunt, historically, was a word of praise for women...now, I don't want to hear it from anyone's mouth.
Connotation changes, but is it group specific?
To sexy dancer how would you feel if I call you a reck neck or honky thats disrespectful. Although we do use the n word to eachotha what u mean thats not right? Have you ever seen the outcome when i white called a black a n word:(
ReplyDeleteIts not a great word but its also different ways to use the word....
i really want to clarify this for once and for all BLACK PEOPLE DONT USE THE N WORD IGNORENT PEOPLE USE THE N WORD point blank ill be honest i have used it in joking situations when im depicting an IGNORENT PERSON and i do not claim to be apart of any race of people as ignorent as the ones who use the n word to make themselves fell more manly I HATE THAT WORD and anyone who uses it irritates me to no end but the fact is if i was to outwardly show my disgut for the word i would have no friends because of how many use it
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sharmaine. Racial names are thrown around too much by the people that it normally would have been used to describe. Isn't it hypocritical when someone else is able to use an offensive word, but they don't like it thrown at them? I'm not assuming that you're someone throwing this around, but I don't hear other ethnicities using racial terms when talking to one another when it comes to entertainment media.
ReplyDeleteSharmaine, I still don't understand the "different" ways to use the word. I have been called a few things and I've never accepted it from anyone.
ReplyDelete@sharmine
ReplyDeleteIM NOT TRYING TO SOUND RACIST EITHER!!!!
but i just dont understand why someone would get upset when someone calls someone a word, that the person affected uses it too. i dont call other gay people fags, because its disrespectful, so there for im not going to use it, so why would you use the "n" word?
i think the N word depends how they use it because during my high school years it was full of mexicans they always say the N word even though their not black. it can be a habit sayin the N word but they don't actually mean it.
ReplyDeleteI think it has alot to do with the context it's used in. It's not really about race to me anymore. If I have a white friend that I know isn't a racist and he says "what's up my nigga?" I won't have anything to say. But it's the fact that I know these people were saying it to get under my skin that really...well...gets under my skin. But I guess as corny as it is "sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you" is still mostly true.
ReplyDelete@martini
ReplyDeletewhen you hear "ignorant" people using that word, do you say something to them?
i agree with sexy dancer...if you gone get mad if someone calls you the word then why use it?????
ReplyDeleteyea in my hood every one say the n word.In my old high school the portricans and mexicans said to each other like its not nothing,and i found it weird because the black kids didnt find it offensive. I think it is taking too lightly because as an afraican american if i go to latino school and say a racist word like ( what up weback!), in try to make it sound cool,i might get jumped on. people dont realize that that the n word was used to lower the blacks back in the days, to make use feel like nothing.im still tring to figure out why they say it so much,because it pisses me off.
ReplyDeleteMarquis, this is what happens when women call each other bitches or whatever, but it's totally not cool for me.
ReplyDeleteEven though "nigga" is a different spelling and it's been reclaimed, it's not reclaimed by the whole community. Even among black speakers, use of the word is problematic because of its potential to give offence, as is clear from the following, from a black speaker.
Also, it used to be used to mean someone who does menial labor. So, there was the phrase white nigger. This history is so confounded. It's kind of like how, in Spain, you don't say Franco anymore and they even changed that chocolate company to be called Frango (or something).
Words. thats all they are, weather they mean something to you or not. look at it for how it is. if someone called you a googley eyed frankfurter, you would probably think nothing of it. but as soon as someone puts meaning behind it it's suddenly offensive.
ReplyDelete@ sexydancer no i dont say anything to them because as i said if i spent my whole life fighting people for using the word my face would not be as prettyy as it is now but i do feel great sorrow plus consider this whenever my gay friends try to act straight the first thing the say is "what up my nigga" so what does that tell u ? and hispanics use the word for the same reason i bbelive because its only the ignorent ones trying to assert ther manhood on others that use the word bu hey guess what thats how the word started out as white slave holders using the word as a way to degrate and insult there slaves and assert there authoprity IHATE THE FACT THAT YOU NEED TO USE A WORD TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE POWERFUL
ReplyDeleteIt's not about the spelling though. It's about WHO is saying it. Not WHO as in what race...but WHO as in the person. It's not that I'm offended by the word. It's that I'm offended by how this person is trying to offend me by using the word.
ReplyDeleteit's just a word
ReplyDelete@AZ
ReplyDeleteAre u black?
go read the rest of my posts sharmaine
ReplyDeleteas for everybody else. I have explained myself in the rest of my responses, instead of fighting about it, try actually reading everything before you respond
there is no time fore racism. let those who would like ot stay in the past stay in the past. if they do not liek some one because of race color or creed, thats their fault and they will have to suffer the repercussions of there actions. By feeding into it it is just giving it life.
ReplyDeleteO I have and like I said ur not black so you don't know how it feels to be called the n word!
ReplyDeletewell no i dont.. but to me it dosent matter because black people call each other that all the time so why should it matter when somebody else say it.. when you guys say it all the time
ReplyDeletehat I've noticed, after reading this, is how easily we fall into defense mode and accuse other people of what they understand / don't understand or even how they are acting. It's almost like a dismissal of the conversation, a way to bring a new conversation that makes the other person feel uncomfortable. I think that's normal, but it's something to notice. How do we have a conversation that is uncomfortable without resorting to uncomfortable behavior?
ReplyDeleteI am interested in Alex's comments because it brings up semiotics. I suggest reading Roland Barthes. I also want to let you know that a lot of the Writing and Rhetoric teachers will give you a background on semiotics. It is good to push into that question about language and its power--it's also good to go deeper and decide who gets to say what and who doesn't get to say what. Things do hold different value when certain people say it. The l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e movement comes out of this issue of the political strength of words and the co-opting of language by politics and business.