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Old 06-11-2004, 12:59 PM   #5
ladysycamore
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Originally posted by zippyt
Ok lady syc , i agree with you mostly , BUT why is it ok for a black person to call another black person the "N" word but let a white person say the same word and they are racist ???? Where is the fucking equality there ????

Zippy: the best explaination that I can give is that sometimes it's not what you say, but how you say it. I'm sure that you have heard blacks say to each other, "Yo man, dat's my nigga!" It's said in a way that isn't offending the other person, and it's understood by the other person as such.

Now, if a white person says, "You damn dirty nigger!"...well, how is that going to be received? The same way that you received the word "cracker".


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And YES it buges the fuck out of me to be called cracker by a black person for this same reason .
As well it should.

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A few years back i was working in a plant that had a black superviser , he called all the black people by name , all the white people he called bubba . I said " ok rastis " , he got verry Irate . I told him my name is CHRIS NOT BUBBA !!!! We had to be seperated so we didn't kill each other .

Not trying to rile you up , just curious .
No problem, although I had made a promise to myself that I would stop trying to explain black behavior to whites, because it was getting to the point where I was banging my head against the wall with some of them. However, you asked nicely, and wanted to know. Thanks.
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