<p>Hey, I wanted to try to make my first post something cutting edge so I was curious if anyone had thoughts about the n-word funeral a few days ago:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19681288/%5B/url%5D">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19681288/</a></p>
<p>Does this seem like a reach to anyone else?</p>
<p>Perhaps they should bury absurdly high rates of illegitimacy, academic failure, and violent crime as well.</p>
<p>Honestly, I didn't realize the n-word was the biggest (or even a big problem) problem facing Black America today.</p>
<p>people make such a huge deal about racial slurs in the US. I'm a latino and I honestly could not care less if someone called me a spic. People have got to stop stygmatizing words.</p>
<p>"Perhaps they should bury absurdly high rates of illegitimacy, academic failure, and violent crime as well.</p>
<p>Honestly, I didn't realize the n-word was the biggest (or even a big problem) problem facing Black America today."</p>
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<li>lmao i agree</li>
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<p>and what now, because it's "dead" people are going to stop saying it?</p>
<p>The whole idea of burying a word, and actually having a public act to do so, is absolutely ridiculous. What a sham...</p>
<p>Hmm...oddly Black people are the main people who use the word...</p>
<p>we had a debate in my english class one time about using the n-word, and why black people were 'allowed' to use it.
i still think it's stupid, but apparently the people who use it have their reasons :confused:</p>
<p>I really don't know why its an issue...</p>
<p>The dude from Seinfeld and Don Imus got a lot blame for their statements then Mel Gibson, his anti-semntic remarks, and Rosie O'Donald, for her anti-asian impression. Is the African American community just overly sensitive?</p>
<p>I feel this is ridiculous
To actually BURY a word?
Though I do agree it is an offensive one, after burying it many ingnorant people are still going to use it.</p>
<p>I understand that it's a symbol, but it's a really bad one. First of all, anyone who reads "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "Huck Finn" will have to confront the word's interred remains. And aren't words just...words? You can bury the word all you want but burying racism is something else all together.</p>
<p>That is a pretty big waste of time. Someone is hoping to win the black vote...</p>
<p>Some people thought of it as a waste of time when the NAACP did the same for Jim Crow Laws back in the 1940s.</p>
<p>LOL .. most people who use the word on a regular basis probably don't read/watch MSNBC.</p>
<p>It's very comical that you generalize a whole skin color...a-hole.</p>
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<p>Race hustling, pure and simple. You are correct as usual, Mr. Payne.</p>
<p>time had a good article back when michael richards did his whole shpeal.</p>
<p>it had to do with the fact that if african americans choose to use the word as a term of brotherly and sisterly love towards eachother, they are excluding others and therefore promoting an 'us against them' attitude, which in turn helps push others to use the word against them. </p>
<p>my attitude is if someone is going to exclude me from using a word in the english language towards them, yet they are allowed to use it, that is in fact racist. of course the stipulation is that many non-blacks use it in a derogetory way.</p>
<p>NYC is moving towards making the words "*****" and "ho" illegal now. What happened to freedom of speech? I understand the n-word and others are offensive, but I was unaware that the government was capable of such things. Call me crazy.</p>
<p>one day a poor farmer is going to be talking about how his dog in heat messed up his garden and he needs to go out and hoe again and he'll be thrown in jail.</p>