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Originally Posted by GZire
For all those who say Michael Richards is racist for saying the "N Word," Damon Wayons got fined and banned from a comedy club for saying the "N Word."
Where all you PC people now? Why isn't Wayons a racist? (And no I don't think he is, but according to you guys earlier, he should be)
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ok. first of all, the two questions posed in this post are, as respectfully as can possibly be said, the dumbest questions i've heard asked of anyone in a long time. are you serious?
i'll preface this by saying i'm black, yet i grew up in a very diverse community. yes, all of our parents did pretty well, and we came from educated families for the most part, but nevertheless, we were a diverse group. in hs, and to this day, my friends and girlfriends were and have been a mixed bag of races, and i remember that word being tossed around very frequently by every race i've encountered without anyone getting mad. i do, however, remember one time when it was said by someone to me around the same age, and it made me so mad i wanted to destroy them. i gaurantee you that everyone in this forum wasn't the type to let "words" always roll off their back. there is something about everyone here that, if brought up the wrong way, will and has set you off to the point where you won't know how to handle shit. i don't care who you are. if not, you don't don't know what pride and love for anything are.
so, for the mass of you who say words are meaningless without action, you're fooling yourself. quit trying to be tough. we all have something.
with that being said, my race is important to me, as any white, chinese, japanese, indian, mexican, etc's race should be to them. when my best friend, who happens to be white, is riding in my car, and he's rapping along to a biggie song that he likes, and he hears the word, "nigga," i don't expect him to cut himself off. when you cross the line, and you use the word to hurt me, i have a problem. that's when i have to chop your ass down with a quickness and let you know that you are to NEVER go there under any circumstances with me.
i always find it funny when i'm dating a girl and she hears "nigga" in a song(usually "damn it feels good to be a gangsta." thanks office space and the ghetto boys), and she's used to saying it every time she's in her car alone. that first time is always funny for me 'cause i laugh and tell her it's ok. if she ever came at me and said, "you stupid nigger...y'all are always doing...," and she started to use it to cut me down, we're done.
i pretty much equate it to my pride in my country. i'm from america, and i'll be damned if you disrespect my flag, my national anthem, my customs, language, etc. in college i met a lot of people who'd recently moved to the US for educational and/or familial reasons who got into serious arguments with me about how great their countries were(mostly french people). they got on my damned nerves, but i had so much more respect for them than the guy who couldn't tell me how many stripes were on our flag.
lastly, i'd like to hit the comedians for a sec. let's take chappelle vs richards. f wayans. he's weak in the laugh game right now. i just watched a skit where there was a family called the "niggars" who's last name, on the surface, was used to snipe at common stereotypes of black people. watch it. then rewind it and watch it with the degree you got from whatever university claims to have taught you something. what's he doing? you're laughing, but why? what makes those things funny? for black people, look in the mirror. are they true? do you help perpetuate them? for whites, and everyone else, do you believe these things about blacks? better yet, are they you? moreso, are we all falling for bs stereotypes and imitiating them to different degrees at times as an entire society? why, 50 years after this shit was supposedly stopped, are we still at this point? why do you think he quit? what would you personally compromise for 50 mil? once it gets to the point where it touches your concience, and "its" ability(think about that) is being abused, is it worth it?
vs richards
this clown gets on stage and...well...we all know what he did and said. deplorable is a weak word in reference to what came out of his mouth. sure, technically, he used the same word as dave had, but there are a lot of words that can be understood and reacted upon based on that understanding in many different ways. dictionaries aren't as thick as they are 'cause the english language is that complicated. it's as thick as it is 'cause alomst every word means more than one thing. richards used the word the wrong way. plain and simple. if he's on stage joking, or if he's my boy, and he walks up to me and says, "what's up nigga?," i won't punch him in his throat, or better yet, sue his ass since he's rich and that's what americans do right? we're also supposedly fat, lazy, greedy, imperialistic, selfish, etc. how do you like those stereotypes? talk to a super patriotic Brit. good luck.
i don't know about you, but if a frenchie said that shit to me, it's on.
i love everybody. hell, my girlfriend's hispanic. i only really dislike people of all races, especially old asian ladies(sorry to the asian people in the forum) who can't drive, illegal immigrants, unfortunately mostly mexican, who drive around TX with no insurance, and those coward bitches who hurt one of my boys very badly in Iraq...whatever race they are.
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