GREAT article "Time to retire the N word"

While on the discussion of Racism............

[video=youtube;BbK0Om8HklY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BbK0Om8HklY#at=19[/video]

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;517656]RoadToad.....I had never seen that skit.......I think it absolutely applies, and I think if you could take the HATE out of how it is used, which is nearly impossible, you'd kill the word.

BUT, personally, I believe the N word is much more hurtful and hateful than any OTHER of those words used by Dustin Hoffman in that skit......[/QUOTE]
"which is nearly impossible" there's the rub... the word has been used and used and used, without it's hurtfulness being diluted. But I will say this: personally, I rarely say the phrase, "the n-word." I think that just gives the word even more power. I never call people niggers, whether they're present or not; that's just not the way I think. But, if I'm talking about the word, I generally just use the word. It is, after all, just a word, and I don't care if anybody thinks I'm a racist because I don't refuse to utter it.

Oh and BTW.. I obviously had my dates a little off. It wasn't the late 50's, it was the early 60's. He makes a reference to "President Kennedy..."

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;517686]While on the discussion of Racism............

[video=youtube;BbK0Om8HklY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BbK0Om8HklY#at=19[/video][/QUOTE]

Some great questions in that video.....