Topic : 09/12 The N-Word Debate

responding to the last person....yes respect has to be earned ...

if someone spits in your face are you going to respect them? no

human race... things have changed and evolved use your common sense and use your knowledge.

respect is obviosly something that needs to be earned or else why do we have inmates in our prisons?

It's hard to step outside of yourself.  We all have preconceived notions so it's hard to set that aside.  Just think how many people think they know what jesus or mary looked like and can swear that that object looked the 'spitten' image of him or her when there was no portrait or picture taken two thousand years ago.  Based on what and where is this certainty coming from?  Up until the seventies black people did not like you calling them a 'n*****''.  In the black community not enough good people scoll these people for making the 'slave mind' acceptable.  You can have blacks in the public schools say that 'you are acting white' if you speak well.  If a white person says it everyone jumps on that person.  If a black person is successful he/she is critisized with 'oh you think you are better'.  In the white community they stare with disbelief.  I think to combat this perception we should talk about what the word means.  I think they are real and they are the ones destroying the black community by not taking responsibilities for there actions.This perception is within the black community as well as white because blacks also say if a white person acts wild and hasa criminal attitude they say he is acting black!

Africa is a continent.  We are not talking about other countries.  We are talking about America. 

This is an American problem between European Americans and African Americans.  The rest of you are just caught up in the middle of it and don't really know  what's going on.  You miss the whole thing if you are not black and you don't want to know if you are white. Everybody else is not a part of the issue. And, the history books can't  begin to tell the story.  And, nobody has the right to belittle anybody else, not even us black people.  I don't even know where that come from.  Why do you think that it's like that?  I use the "n" word in-culture.  I don't use it with others and no one has the right to use it with me.  Got it? 

I never hear other races call each other names like I hear Black folks call each other the "N"word.  I do not hear Italians walk up to each other and say, "Hey what's up "WOP" or what's up my "Honky".   It would not be acceptable  to do so.  So why is it acceptable for Black folks to use this derogatory word towards each other? ... Because the music industry perpetuate the use of the word in the music that our young folks listen to as well as the videos and advertising.  It needs to stop now!