Is the term “nigger”* any more defamatory than the word “chink” or the word “cracker” or the word “wapp” or the word “redskin” or the word “spic”? Because I would like to know how it came to be that “one particular word out of all those mentioned above, suddenly “became the talk of the nation”! Can you explain that to me? Why did Black rights become such a topic of grave importance over, Hispanic, Chinese, Indian, Gay, Women’s rights (domestic violence, child-support), bullying of our children, manslaughter victims of DUI…? Why have so many different peoples rights come intermittently or dispersively or skewed or jagged…? That is, if WE are supposedly so concerned about the rights of others (in general)?**
*Is it less defamatory when a Black calls another Black man a “nigger”?
**None of this should have anything to do with public opinion, votes, agendas, vendettas…!!!!
Sidenote: When they were dragging all these people into court who held high positions in society, for using the N word 20 years ago… and then hanging them out to dry.. Using them as examples regarding this country taking seriously…. Did it ever occur to anybody that maybe these people were sorry for the way they behaved 20 years ago – that their attitudes had perhaps changed? It seems to me that there are a lot more agendas flying around in all of this -and far too few well-meaning individuals. Ignorant to say the least anyways. Hell some of the Black folk* who were victimized showed more compassion and forgiveness than the White folk who were out head-hunting (as I recall).
*Some of the gentlest, most respectful, most sincere, humble people I’ve ever met were Black.**
**I’ve seen black men taking orders from white men show more humility*** than white women taking orders from white (or black) men in this country!
***Where does their humility come from -God fearing, disciplinarian up-bringing…?
MINORITY REPORT
Afterthought: They always ask people who claim they’re not racist “Do you have any friends who are minorities?”
A man once remarked: “He’ll I ain’t prejudice -I hate everybody!”