I don't understand either. But I do know this. Black guys call each other the n-word all of the time, and it never leads to a fist fight. And if a black guy called me a honkey or cracker I could easily walk away. Just sayin.
and you are missing the point. Im not talking about being offended. I said the law is the law is bullshit response to what I am trying to say. The law was the law when everyone couldnt vote and people had to use different water fountains. By your response the law being the law, that was ok because it was the law. Thats my point and thats bullshit, it has nothing to do with being offended.
Try to understand this, nigga is a word just like any other word, which I really dont use. But if i said Kal-El you are my motherfucker as in my friend thats a different context than fuck you motherfucker. If you use a word with malicious intent that it takes on a different context. Thats the difference in the meaning of that word. The word doesnt offend me at all but if you are using it to degrade me then yes we have a problem and you are not dense. You are a smart guy and can understand this. And people have called me that, hell I was driving home from work one day, guy rolled his window down him and a lady. I thought he was asking for directions. He screams out of the car that I was just a fucking nigger and thats all Id ever be. I smiled and kept driving. I could have pulled out my .380 and that would have ended bad, but I was offended and I kept it moving.
I'm a little white boy who grew up as the minority around Mexicans in Southern California. Half my family is Mexican so that's what I was around and I got called every single name in the book, treated like I didn't belong etc. There is no special feeling you get when you're discriminated against. You either learn to walk away, or you fight. There isn't some magical button. Hell until I got to the South (Arkansas) I thought the main racism towards African-Americans was from Asians and Mexicans. Trust me, they are a lot more vicious in their attitudes than white people ever will be. But no need to pull a you just don't get it card, it's not some magical special feeling.
Possibly but I doubt it, if was a black guy and he pushed his way through the football players saying "get the fuck out of my way nigger" like this guy did, I think they would have beat his ass just the same, however he was white and white guys in this country have a long history of discriminating and calling people niggers for the pure use of degrading and controlling them. What is your point?
Their personal opinions on African-Americans for one, for Mexicans their tendency to escalate things to violence for a second. Owning them obviously was a white thing, but why we talking about slavery if you and I both weren't alive to see it?
does that mean it didnt happen, my grandfather and dad were alive during jim crow and segregation, I guess i shouldnt talk about it because I wasnt there to see it? Because its all good now right? No lingering effects from it? Im the last to make excuses, Im as hard on black people as I am any other people, but lets not try to forget history and not talk about it because 'we werent there'
Neither of those words carry the history of prejudice and injustice that the n-word does. I really don't think white people have the same experience that black people have with regards to racism. Over the past several years, I've noticed that black males, when pulled over on the side of the road by the police, are standing outside of their cars when talking to the police. I don't notice that with white males, and as a white female, that has never been the case for me. That's just one thing I've started noticing--after a black friend of mine talked about his experiences with police (he's a business owner with two degrees from Rice.)
