GREAT article "Time to retire the N word"

[GeoFisher]

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

[RoadToad]

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......

"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..."

[DJD]

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

Some great questions in that video.....