Topic : 09/12 The N-Word Debate

I WATCHED YOUR SHOW TODAY.  JUST 'GET OVER IT' WON'T DO.  I WAS BORN A DOUBLE HAIR LIP AND DOUBLE CLEFT PALATE.  YOU NEVER GET OVER IT.  YOU LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT AND TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE ACCEPT YOU FOR THE WAY YOU ARE.  WHY PEOPLE LET WORDS GET IN THEIR WAY, I DON'T KNOW.  IF I LET WORDS HURT ME, I WOULD BE HURT TODAY AT THE AGE OF 63.  I TAKE EVERY HURT AND MAKE IT A POSSITIVE IF I CAN.  IF NOT, I JUST GO ON.  WHAT MORE CAN I SAY.  IF PEOPLE LET WORDS RULE, I JUST KEEP AWAY AND GO ON BEING KIND TO ALL PEOPLES.  IT USUALLY ISN'T PEOPLES THAT UPSET OTHERS.  IT'S THEIR ACTIONS.

 

SUSAN

 We can't go through a viciuos cycle of "when they stop, we'll stop." Someone must be the bigger person and stop. it sounds as if you may use the word because others use inappropriate terms for whites. Is this correct? I'd just like to say, we can't be moved by what others say as it begins with the person in the mirror. Once we stop using derogatory terms, then perhaps we can encourage someone else to do the same and then it will be a cycle of respecting each other.

Paul Mooney is one of the biggest hypocrytes I have ever seen.  He is saying that he has had it so hard and he was a captured african american.  That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard, he wasn't captured he is from america.  He needs to shut up.  Black people are some of the biggest racits ever.  He is saying how hard black people have it.  If you take a civil service exam you obtain extra points which raise your score if you are a "minority"  Tell me how that is fair?  If you live in america now you have the same rights as everyone else.  Slavery ended a long time ago so get over it and stop making excuses.  If you look at the news you see mostly black people on it because that's how it is.  You say you want to be treated equal well then start holding yourself up to a higher standard than you are now.  If you think that "white" people are holding you back because they aren't allowing you to do something your an idiot.  Me calling you the N-word is the same thing as a black person calling someone a cracker.  Tell me how its fair for a black person to call someone the n-word but no one else is allowed to.  If you want to call yourself that then you are just giving everyone else the right to use it.  There is a huge difference between black people and the n-word.  It's all how you display yourself.  Paul mooney needs to take a good look at himself considering he said he used to use the word all the time in his act, what is he a born again black person?  I'm not saying one race is better than the other but how about you have an equal number of each race on the debaters.  So all of the people who get offended by it need to shut up take a look at yourself and evaluate on how you up hold yourself.  Slavery was over a long time ago.  Also isn't mooney being a racist saying "the white doll is the serial killer and the white doll is the one who will go to the mall and shoot everyone" "he learned from the best the white people" he needs to shut the f*** up and get over it!

I don't consider myself a racist at all but I totally agree that I think it is absurd that black americans have the right to segregate themselves with the Miss Black USA pagent and Black Networks and etc., yet I as a white american don't have those same liberties without being a racist.  I feel horrible about slavery as well as I feel equally horrible about the holocaust but I as a 40 year old female had no hand in any of that hatred!  I think it is a crutch for todays black americans, just like the black comedian on the show today to get irrate and tell a lady in the audience that he was dragged here as a slave......no he wasn't, his ancestors were and even though that was horrible it did not happen to him!!!  And if he were dragged here he has the freedom to go wherever he wishes unlike his ancestors.  I hate to use the term get over it, but you don't hear the Jewish community constantly crying racism everytime something happens to one of them that they don't agree with ro don't feel is fair.  I believe that as a white american both races have less than desirable members, there is white trash and black trash.  I don't think it is right for black americans to think it is OK for them to call each other the N word and then be offended when a white person calls them that....that is a double standard that they have created.  If you want others to respect you, respect yourself.  But the bottom line with my feelings are this, I get tired of hearing about how they are so unfairly treated....seems to me they have more opportunities than most by being a minority.  Spend more time teaching the next generation to respect themselves and less time teaching them to use the past as a excuse to expect everything to be handed to them because of their race.  Just my opinions.

I'm a 22 year old african american male and my view on the n word is that it should never be used no matter the race sex gender. Its a word that has hurt the african race for years and I feel that we as americans cannot and will not move forward until this word is buried.

I just thought that I would weigh in on the topic of discussion for today.  Well to start, most of the panel and audience was rather fired up by this topic.  I grew up in a house where the "N" word was seldom used, I am married, and have three children and am currently trying to start a business.  Seems to me like we should all find a way to deal with this word in a way that suits everybody.  I DO NOT use that word for any reason, my children were taught never to use it, and when I bring this topic up to them they act like "Duh Mom why would I?"  I feel like we are putting to much emphasis on this particular word and not really enough on the real issues at hand.  If it is offensive, or derogatory why use it at all.  Why can't we as a society sit back and say, "Hey we HAVE come a long way, why throw it all away?"  What you use in your own house is your business, what you put out there for the whole world to see is totally different.  Now here is another question to think about, "Does it even matter to anyone out there given my opinion here, what race I am?"  We have so much to be concerned about as individuals as well as a society, why can't we just say no to the word.  I'm not saying take it out of the history books, or to take it away from one's heritage, just realize that we live in a different time. If it wasn't said, it wouldn't be taught, and in turn wouldn't be used.  Period.

Just got done watching the Dr. Phil show and I have to say that I am touched deeply.  Never in my adult life ever seen the reaction for the N word.  I truly feel sorry for the people that think this word is ok to use. No matter if it's in thier private or public life.  I grew up in an mostly black neighborhood where this word would never be stood for by anyone.  I myself don't feel it's okay for anyone to use it. I had a very hard time with this word due to the fact that my stepfather at the time was a racist.  So I got to see first hand how this word could hurt so may people.  Our society today should learn to grow up and realize that no matter what life style you have, or where you come from this word is the most disgrading word in our language.  I don't care how you put it.  So grow up AMERICA we are all human beings with hearts and minds just like you.

yeah, that person really is.