Re: Phyllis: Activists Say YIKES We need to KILL the MD BILL! LOL

On 5 Apr 2005 10:22:27 -0700, "eugeneshapiroisapig"
<mockingbirdstl@xxxxxxx> snickered:

>I often use the word ***. Not as a general pejorative aimed at
>blacks. However I totally reject the idea that any word is off limits
>for one reason or another, or that certain word can only be acceptably
>used by one class of people.
>
>Many blacks use "***" as a tribal code word, it can be a term of
>affection and brotherhood. But whitey can't utilize this word? Even
>though whitey invented the word?
>
>*** has other connotations as well. It can effectively describe a
>group which is oppressed or demeaned. It can also be used to describe
>someone who is lazy or selfish - regardless of skin color.
>
>The current PC climate which excoriates whites for using the word
>*** in any form I see as part of a hegelian cycle. there is thesis -
>blacks are inferior and we call them niggers - antithesis - don't ever
>use the word ***- and synthesis - slavery was a long time ago,
>racism is no longer an issue, and it is ok to use the word ***
>because it conveys a powerful unique image.
>
> While much of the world may still be in the anti-*** stage of
>thought development, I have graduated to the synthetic stage in which
>in my conception we recognize differences, and embrace the
>similarities, and *** can be used by all classes, it's no longer a
>special word reserved for blacks as a reaction to the racism of the
>whites who first coined the term.
>
> in my world, we are all niggers.

Chapelle does a good comedy with the phrase. The blind *** who
happened to be a KKK leader.(classic!) He divorced his wife when he
found out that he too was black. He couldn't be with a *** lover.
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