<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Apr 5 2007, 10:55 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ugh, you are such a poor reader. I will try to take your post seriously one more time.I don't give a sh*t what card you were dealt. I don't care if you are green or black. Just because you are black doesn't mean I can't have an opinion. Basically your whole argument is, "I am black, and the word doesn't matter to us." Explain why the F*ck I should care what you say? Why should I listen to you over the scholarly people on tv that say that the word still should not be used? Why should I listen to you when I have enough sense to know that if I say the word around many of my black friends, it will offend them? There is no reason, and you have no worthwhile point. You see, if anything, experience gives you a bias. You think that you know what you're talking about because you're black and you don't care. Whoopdeedoo.Explain to me how race is a paradox. And again, I didn't denounce the word nigger. I don't know what the F*ck you're talking about.You mean affects. How the word affects people. Yes, my point was that you don't have any idea how the word affects people, thus you cannot speak for every black person in the country. And you do say that you only speak for you and your homies, but everytime you post you use some term like "black community." Quite honestly, I don't give two shits how you and your 17 year old friends feel about the word. I am talking about black people in the world, not just you and your friends. I don't watch 24-hour news channels. When did I use the word change? Enlighten me.I did indeed compare the situations, but only to a small extent. I did not say that the power of a shotgun is similar to getting called a nigger. That is how you interpreted it (incorrectly). Anyway, a comparison is not a metaphor, but I am not surprised you don't know that.I don't know what you're getting at. Are you saying the word nigger is trite?</div>-You're bastardizing my position with an emotional exacerbation of my point. Don't attack a straw man. Argue it straight up. I'm not saying the word doesn't matter "us." I'm saying that I see a lessening of its impact among black people. Black people on television or any national medium are doing the same service that successful black entertainers have done for America all along - confirming what you already think you know. If you don't want to believe me, if you can't conceive it, close your ears. I'll live. And attacking me personally is even weaker than your using this straw man - it's straight snobbery. My reading skillz are bomb.-Race is a paradox because it's indefinable, while "racism" is not. For example, I'm a bit of a racist, but I don't quite trust it. I think we're just people.-You can have an opinion. But it's too bad you don't seem to relish challenging your own narrow view of how black people feel in regard to this word. Do you and your friends talk about this often? I bet you avoid it like hot coals. That's why I'm surprised you don't value my input. But of course, you already know, because you have black friends. You've become one with their inner Negro secrets. You know what offends them. It's funny. You don't care about a black person's opinion, or the fact that he talks to black people about this issue regularly. But I've decided not to be offended. In your mind, I probably shouldn't even exist, or I'm lying. Too funny.-I don't just speak for my homies. I speak for mothers, small business men, drug dealers, high school and college students, the homeless and dispossessed. Where is all that inevitable black outrage that you know so much about present in this thread?-As far as change of the word, you said that you recognize the word doesn't have any meaning. Surely you didn't mean to imply the word never had any meaning. That's a tacit admission that the word has evolved or changed. If I'm wrong or was assuming too much, let me know.-Sorry I called your analogy, and that is what it was, a metaphor or comparison. Maybe even I called it a parable. I like this argument, but I've been doing alot of reading lately, and I'm a little tired.
