bjl
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Are you feeling alright over there?
Yeah, are you?
Are you feeling alright over there?
Yeah, are you?
But to answer your statement. The legacy of lost identity (connection to Africa/Africentricity), slavery and subsequent segregation/stereotyping make blacks as a 'cultural group' more sensitive to derrogatory remarks than say a white person who might laugh off being compared to a cracker. The racial slurs don't carry the same stigma, public humiliation and personal erosion of self-esteem.
The racial slurs don't carry the same stigma, public humiliation and personal erosion of self-esteem.
In your (humble?) opinion.
I don't believe you can speak for everyone and you shouldn't try to.
I might laugh off being called a cracker but I don't think I would laugh off being called an a-hole. In this case the CFRB reporter is probably considered more a part of the social elite compared to a lowly parking attendant. What can't the CFRB reporter call the white parking attendant?
I wasn't attempting to. History and common sense knowledge speaks for itself.
to the present day where people are still getting away with racial slurs like this security guard has.
in my extremely humble opinion!
LOL, you're not very humble, I've read your posts, you make a lot of false statements, and when called on them, you deflect and weasel your way out of an answer....you should go into politics
Then why did you state it as a fact? You know who writes history books don't you?
People get away with homophobic slurs all the time...I don't see you coming to annyones defence in that regard....very revealing.
The point is to be mean when you're angry. If anything, "racist" is the new "nigger" or "damn Jew" or "Chink" or whatever.
The context is much more important than the actual word said. Calling someone a "n i g g er " after they pissed you off like cutting you off on the road is different than saying "all blacks should leave North America" at a Black history month rally.
Abduction, lost heritage, cast overboards, slavery, being born and dying a slave, masters raping slaves, biracials torn between worlds, emancipation: free but really not, next to no pay, next to no useful lands, retribution for slavery denied, new immigrants placed on higher social pedestals then existing black population, rampant segregation, lynching, adult suffrage denied, interracial marriages null and void, civil rights era opening doors to people largely not of African decent, to the present day where people are still getting away with racial slurs like this security guard has.
The guy was being mean-spirited but it doesn't make him a racist.
The context is much more important than the actual word said. Calling someone a "n i g g er " after they pissed you off like cutting you off on the road is different than saying "all blacks should leave North America" at a Black history month rally.
What's going to happen next? Are we going to start saying "damn teenage punks" is discrimination and can't be used when angry? Technically it is.
There's too many problems with persecuting people who use slurs in a heat of the momment swear. It's just not practical and people aren't robots.
My point is that words mean little in themselves, you can say what you want and it alone should not be grounds for any real type of punitive punishment. It's only when given in certain contexts should there be punishment.
How much of the above is personal experience? And how much is just hereditary anguish?
I think it's easy for cultures to become mired in their own historic misfortune. How do you heal 15 year-olds embittered by events they've never experienced?
I think we need to start separating historic ills from current realities. Things aren't all rosy and neutral, but we're a long way from lynchings and segregation.
Dentrobates also commits the injustice of painting all 'white' people with the same brush, effectively dehumanizing them and viewing them merely as a uniform entity of privileged 'enslavers'. This is the height of the very sort of bigoted and lazy thinking or stereotyping that he so viciously purports to decry when it comes to blacks.
...and such is the danger of Dentrobate's self-righteousness, by forcing yourself always as the marginalized victim of history and the whipping boy of society you are in effect doomed to to continue to be just that, if only in your own mind.