Topic : 09/12 The N-Word Debate

I have Indian and Irish in me and I'm considered Black. Now we have our background out the way can we move on now!!! Did you read what I wrote or did you just see what you wanted to see!!! This is why nothing will change because when you try to have a discussion there are people that will post garbage. Listen my post was in response to all the silly post that was on the board. My post was answering silly questions that were raised on the board throughout. I'm not going back and forth with you because Its useless. Do some research and think about your post.

I wish someone would enlighten me as to why White people feel they have a stake in this debate. So Black people (some, anyway) can say it to each other but White people can't, so what? Do you want to? Then go ahead. It'll say more about you than anything else you do and you would have to suffer the consequences of being judged as a racist or a bigot.

I've yet to see one of the "Get Over It" folks on this board discuss the doll test that Paul Mooney brought up or the resume test Hill Harper brought up. White folks rarely want to discuss the very serious, pervasive institutional racism that continues affect Black people in the nation. Forget hundreds of years ago,  let's talk all of the things that were used to oppress Black folks AFTER slavery, who's effects are still being felt in our community today (redlining, for instance).

First of all let me say I am a 30 something white woman.  My best friend is a black women and I love her as though she is my sister.  Most of my other friends are also black.  Many people are raised as racists and others become racists by experiences in their life but it is still your choice.  Let me give you an example:  I spent about 4 years of my life (ages 8-12) in a small town called Woodbury where 90% of the population were blacks and 10%  were whites.  I rode a school bus where there were only 4 white kids (including me) on this bus.   Alot of bad things happened to me (by blacks) while I lived in this town.  I was called Honkey, Whitie, Cracker, etc. The point I am trying to make is do I hate black people for what happened to me in this town?  No way!  I do not judge all black people for what others in their race did to me so I wish blacks would not judge me for what my ancestors did to their ancestors. 

The definition of the N-word to me is: a lazy no good person who does nothing for herself/himself or society.  It in no way represents a race or group of people.  Let me remind you I am from down south and I know how the old timers have used this word.  However, like I said it is the persons choice as to how they use it or what it means to each individual.

Someone on the show brought up BET and Hill Harper said that BET is owned by Viacom.  It doesn't matter who it is owned by the point is that it exists the way it is.  Blacks have BET( I don't care that it is owned by Viacom), Negro College Fund, NAACP, etc..  If white people had WET, a White College Fund, or anything else primarily for white people all hell would break loose and we would be called racists and all of these things would be boycotted. 

It really touched a nerve with me when Mooney very angrily told a white woman that she is a minority.  I as a white woman in this country feel like a minority.  One of my favorite clothing stores employs mainly black women and most of the time when I shop there I am ignored or they act like I am bothering them by shopping there.  Do I go to another store?  No, like I said I love this store and its their problem as individuals not mine if they resent me because I am white. 

I understand the "black slavery" and I wish it never happened but it did. I did not enslave anyone nor did any of the white people alive today.  Did you get that?  No White Person Alive Today Enslaved Blacks!!!  This mess is never going to stop as long as "black people" have the attitude that we (white people) made them slaves and owe them everything.  Let me say though that not all black people feel and act this way but it seems the majority does.  Each of us (ALL RACES) have to take responsibilty for our own actions, thoughts, and behaviors if we are ever going to live peacefully in this great nation of the USA.  I just wish we could be "One Nation Under God" regardless of the color of our skin.