I am not an africanamerican, but I am offended when I hear the "N word" used even if it isn't used towards me. The "N word" should be treated as the "F word" and never used. It should never be placed in a history book for former words. It should just be a forgotten word.
I am offended by the woman from the audience who said, "They should just get over it". She should know how AfricanAmericans feel, after all women are disgriminated against all the time, just like AfricanAmericans. No, they were not born into slavery, but their distant relatives were. And they were treated like they had some sort of disease of some kind, because they were only allowed to use public restrooms labled only for colored people, they were only allowed to drink out of drinking fountains just for their race, they were not treated equal at all. Even ten years ago, I remember if an AfricanAmerican were to walk into a store that was filled with white people, the AfricanAmerican would get starred at as if they were holdhing a gun and robbing the store.
I live in Michigan, and as a child I was never allow any where near South of 8 mile because my parents were very against AfricanAmericans. Even now, before I moved back home to Michigan with my two sons, my sister called to warn me that her accross the street neighbors were black. I thought to myself, how sad my sister felt the need to tell me her accross the street neighbors were black. I told her that they were her neighbors and it didn't matter what they were, including homosexuals. We are Americans, and we need to stop giving each other lables and just refer to one another as just Americans.
