If you wife calls you a b*tch . . .does that mean everyone can? If ya mom calls HoneyBuns.. . does that mean everyone can? Rocket River sometimes context means something . . other times.. the person saying something changes the meaning of the word
I don't think the word should be used at all unless you know for a fact the person you are talking to isn't offended by it. I'm 1/2 Chinese, and I get the gamut of insults from my friends...and I'm cool with it. I give it right back to them, including my black friends. But if we're playing ball and they bring other black friends I don't know, I never use any of those derrogatory words that I would use if alone with my friends. And I hate the argument that "they call each other that, so why can't I?". That's just dumb.
This! However, this was in my middle school days with my friends from the hood--it really just was a substitute for "fool". Once, I got out of that environment, my use of the word went away.
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My Uncle Clive used the N-Word in 1971 and again in 1985, each time he was taken off the crow's nest of the HMS Pinafore and locked in the brig. He always did have a crazy lisp though, so we never knew if he really meant to say it, Clive wasn't really all there. That was Clive to a tee though, I mean it really was. Say what you will about the mental capacity of a 67 year old man with as many mental disorders as an entire loony bin, but I'll be damned if he didn't teach at least 40 Chinese Kids how to hack into a Coke Machine.
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I have mixed emotions about the issue. I work at a high school and I would say, on an average, I hear it 20-30 times a day. It is not all from african americans either. I hear white kids say it to white kids, black kids to black kids and everything in between. The word seems like it is second nature in youth today, I only graduated high school 5 years ago, and I dont even remember hearing it that much.
I'm white. Therefore I don't use that word. Why? Because I think it's ignorant and racist and also because I don't want to get my ass kicked.
time and place for everything at some point... i was forced to say it to a black person one time when i was the only white person on the block. Granted, i was at the boys club playing with my best friends (all black) and they were joking around and begging me to call this one kid one because he got all pissy since he got schooled by a white boy. After i said it, we all just laughed and went about normal business. Cool story cracker!
I see you are white and have good black friends as well, you are clearly not a racist and excused from your behavior.
Schooled? So You embarrassed him . . . then called him the N-Word? In front a bunch other Black Folx? WOW! I guess. . . . Rocket River "even doves have pride" "well . . . maybe not"
