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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Personally I wonder if blacks use the word in a comraderic fashion to try to take ownership of it themselves in an effort to take much of the vile sting and power out of it from the whites who used it to to benefit themselves and dehumanize the whole black race in referring to its people derogatorily as nothing more than chattel and property for centuries right up through to the present time. It means total subjugation and humiliation, lack of any power and pain of every kind and use of force to be made to serve and work and humble oneself in behalf of a race of people whether they wanted to or not, liked it or not. I am only surmising but if I could take the power from a word that had been used against my family and my people from way back, I believe I would.
Women allow other women to call them "bitch" playfully and often use the term right back to them but no man or employer had better step in their face and use that term or tell jokes using it in their presence. Kind of the same thing but to a far, far lesser extent. |
I think having rules for certain words is wrong if one person can use a word but then the other person can't then maybe the word should not be used at all. Not everyone who has used a certain word such as the n word is a terrible person and people need to remember Paula Deen is an old southern women who grew up with that word being normal at her time.