I don’t
know how to phrase this but I will try to explain as much as possible and since
my blog is in English, so I will only concentrate on this language. If you have
heard people talk to each other, usually there are greetings and then you talk
but there is this curious thing about using slurs when talking with your own
race and again this is in English so I stick with this as mostly African
American people when talking to each other use the N-word as much as possible
and this has seeped into the entertainment culture and it has become like a
street language. I have never heard white people say hi “white Trash” or hi
“Redneck”, it is just a normal greeting but you hear the hip hop and rap music,
there is a plethora of the N Word and despite the half hearted efforts of some
people, the use of it has not been stopped or curtailed.
The only
thing that has changed is that when some non black person says it, they have to
apologize for using a racial slur or it
becomes a big deal like you have offended the whole African-American community,
but have literally heard this word spoken on the streets of New York without
immunity and even some non white people use it while talking with their
compatriots without realizing it being a racial slur. And I would be blunt that
most of the activists rallying against this word don’t want non white people to
use it while not doing enough to discourage among their midst. I may be wrong
but I suspect that the African American community don’t want to retire or
abolish this word as it shows their uniqueness and they want to be the sole
owner of this word while raging against anyone outside their race using the
word as if it is blasphemy but it is okay to use among themselves however they
want. If the use of this word is to be banned, it should start with the African-American
community taking the charging and trying to make this word offensive to
everyone not just to non black folks.
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