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Why can a black person say the N-word while others can't?
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Orange Beast [6233]
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Why can a black person say the N-word while others can't?
Jun 6, 2020, 11:44 AM
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The same reason you can call your wife "baby" or "honey" or "sugar" in public or private and I can't or shouldn't in public or private. And why if you call a woman "baby" "hon" or "sugar" in the office cause it's ok in another relational context-will get you fired for sexual harassment in a text, tweet or off comment. The same reason a parent or relatives in a family can call someone by a nickname like "stinky" and it be affectionate but outside the familial and cultural context it's off. Black Americans share a tribal and familial context that does NOT exclude them from the American "salad" of culture but at the same time can join them in what can be described as culturally "sacred" (without being demeaning or dehumanizing or superior to other ethnicities) spaces. Calling each other the N-word is not claiming moral or ethnic superiority over anyone else. I know a number of African Americans who refuse to use the word even amongst themselves... so it is still up for debate between us.
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Orange Phenom [14625]
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What about when they call us cracker?***
Jun 6, 2020, 11:49 AM
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Orange Immortal [62908]
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Re: What about when they call us cracker?***
Jun 6, 2020, 12:21 PM
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Cracker and Honky is a slur against white people that is used way more in pubic than you will ever hear the N-Word used by whites in public. I haven't used the N-Word in public nor private as a slur against black people in over 50 years when one of the best friend that I ever had is Black. I was 15 when we became friends, and he's still one of less than 4 or 5 friends that I have had for that long, and we are still best of friends today. If real love can be shared between friends, I say that we do love each other like real brothers would love each other. I can honestly say that I don't have a white friend that I love more than I love Sammy Lee bc he is my true friend and brother until death!!! Mine and Sammy Lee's friendship has never been tested or strained bc of race, and that I swear!!!
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All-In [10883]
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I kinda cringe when I hear those words tbh...
Jun 6, 2020, 2:08 PM
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Not because I’m offended...they just sound like a school yard insult. I’m thinking to myself, “you can do better.” I personally don’t feel a collective identity with whites so if I hear someone calling a white person that, it doesn’t bother me in the least.
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Orange Beast [6233]
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Think more about when you call each other that!!
Jun 6, 2020, 12:25 PM
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This is about what is going on internally around the N-word not about the C-word. I don’t know what you’re getting at? Of course name calling to demean others or make yourself superior is wrong.
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Oculus Spirit [43181]
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Does being called cracker bother you?
Jun 6, 2020, 12:31 PM
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I don't think anyone has ever called me a cracker to my face, and if they did it wouldn't bother me one bit. I don't really care what some random person calls me. Kind of like the looney left on Tigernet that like to call us names, it doesn't mean anything.
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Ring of Honor [21228]
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Being offended is usually a choice.
Jun 6, 2020, 2:23 PM
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To let being called a cracker offend you is a decision you make, and white people don't take offense easily against blacks. Black people, right or wrong, tend to be super sensitive and easily offended. What language a person uses often will tell you what is in their hearts, but it is your choice to let it trigger rage.
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Clemson Sports Icon [55405]
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Re: What about when they call us cracker?***
Jun 6, 2020, 4:29 PM
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I’ve been called a cracker a bunch of times, and it makes laugh every time. At no point in my life has that word ever offended or bothered me.
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Paw Warrior [5066]
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Re: What about when they call us cracker?***
Jun 7, 2020, 12:02 AM
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I could careless what people call me, I have never had a word bust my lip, bloody my nose or break my jaw! Talk all you want, but GOD have mercy on the soul that ever lays their hands on any of my children, grand kids, my wife or myself. I am always armed and will defend to the death my family, My self and my property. I treat everyone with respect until a person makes me do otherwise. I don't judge a person by the color of their skin but by the character they show me. I can be your best friend, a great neighbor, and a helpful hand when needed, but I can also be a person's worst nightmare if need be. We all come from the same shed blood of our LORD and savior JESUS CHRIST. He died for all people, not white, black, yellow or Red like my ancestors. We need more people acting the way CHRIST taught us than what we are seeing perpetrated on our TV and computer screens.
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National Champion [7996]
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Re: Why can a black person say the N-word while others can't?
Jun 6, 2020, 11:53 AM
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The same reason they can riot, loot, murder and burn stuff down and the media will cover for them and call it a "protest". However, when mainly non minority people peacefully assemble to question why their civil liberties have been taken away for months with no end in sight the same media treats them like borderline domestic terrorists.
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Tiger Spirit [9795]
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Re: Why can a black person say the N-word while others can't?
Jun 6, 2020, 12:23 PM
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Racist Covidiot.
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Orange Beast [6233]
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Heisman Winner [83214]
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I'm sorry - I have read the post you are responding to
Jun 6, 2020, 12:56 PM
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several times and I don't see "they', "those Americans", " who", or "you people" anywhere in the post. The guy is referring to people in Michigan mostly - the ones who protested "stay at home orders" and closed businesses while carrying their AR-15's. Maybe your reply is in the wrong place?
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Oculus Spirit [42325]
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Don’t see they?
Jun 6, 2020, 1:09 PM
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“The same reason they can riot, loot, murder and burn stuff down and the media will cover for them and call it a "protest". “
Maybe he doesn’t mean blacks but otherwise use what you mean rather than they
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Heisman Winner [83214]
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I knew someone would call me out for that
Jun 6, 2020, 1:20 PM
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but its use in that sentence was very clear as to who "they" are. Shouldn't have warranted a question from anyone.
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Clemson Icon [25825]
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Unfortunately you know exactly what he means
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