Replies to '09/12 The N-Word Debate'

Yes, we do have better things to do.  But  this conversation is necessary.  If it was not such a hot topic there would not be so much response. People have something to say about it.  Try to understand.  I read your response and I thought to myself, this is not an African American person. This person has never felt like a second class citizen.  This person does not know what  it feels like to be treated badly not because he/she is not qualified or not because he/she is not educated or not because he/she is not connected or intelligent but because of the color of your skin. Stand in the mirror, look at all that you have and everything that you have accomplished and tell yourself that none of it is because of the color of your skin.  Can you really say?  Have you ever heard (If you are white, you're alright, if you are brown, stick around but if you are black get back)?  I  am just trying to get you to step outside of yourself for a moment and step into somebody else's skin a black skin. There was an actor who disguised his or her self as a black person to see what it felt like to live as a black person.  There was a movie made about this very thing.  But I am talking about a true story.  After only a few days going threw the life as a black, the person was distraught!  Yes, we do have more prevalent and urgent things to prevent and solve and cure but before you criticize someone else put yourself in their shoes first.