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A Double Standard Worth Keeping:Race and the Differential Power of the "N-Word"

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Smoke Break:

--- Quote from: Shallow on September 20, 2007, 07:49:44 PM ---I even have a couple of friends from Nova Scotia who came to Canada through the underground railroad in the 1800s and they said the word meant nothing to them.
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they need to surrender themselves to medical testing so I can live that long

Maestro Minded:
it really doesnt matter what people around think, because they're not the ones being offended. is that really that difficult to respect the opinion of those who feel offended? you can track the word nigger to spanish negro and whatever, but the fact is that negro means black. nigger will never mean the color black in english. nigger means black slave, nothing else.

Shallow:

--- Quote from: Maestro Minded / LME on September 21, 2007, 05:36:02 AM ---it really doesnt matter what people around think, because they're not the ones being offended. is that really that difficult to respect the opinion of those who feel offended? you can track the word nigger to spanish negro and whatever, but the fact is that negro means black. nigger will never mean the color black in english. nigger means black slave, nothing else.



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It only means black slave because the civil rights era push it as such. It very well could have just meant black, but the powers that be want blacks to stay angry and keep worrying about stupid things like what words whites are allowed to use rather than what's going on in the country.

Wolfen:

--- Quote from: Shallow on September 20, 2007, 07:49:44 PM ---I even have a couple of friends from Nova Scotia who came to Canada through the underground railroad in the 1800s and they said the word meant nothing to them.

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i'm calling shenanigans

boycriedwolf619:

--- Quote from: Wolfen on September 21, 2007, 09:32:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on September 20, 2007, 07:49:44 PM ---I even have a couple of friends from Nova Scotia who came to Canada through the underground railroad in the 1800s and they said the word meant nothing to them.

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i'm calling shenanigans

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Now that I'm looking at this I didn't realize what he just say. The 1800's!! thats a long time.

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