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Originally Posted by PhilnEdee
Being white, being from the south, my take on the word is this...it's really such a bad word to use in any context. That word has more history associated with it than if you said "George Washington"...and none of it good...if a black person says it, or a person of any color says it...its not a good word to use towards anyone. To me, that word is the definition of slavery: oppression, racism at its worst, torture, killing, uneducated...all based on a persons skin color. I played on a USTA league tennis team one year and I was the only white player on the team...the rest of the team members are all good friends, but one time some of them said I was their "white nigger"...honestly, I didn't like it...so I can only imagine how someone who has ever experienced real racism (it still exists...didn't just go away) would feel being called that in an angry and offensive way.
As for my take on this episode...blown all out of proportion, giving him way more publicity than he deserves...because as a standup comic...he really blows. The Chris Rock analogy from Bigger and Blacker is a very good one being from what he deems a normal black person's point of view...but even there I think he missed the boat on just how dirty and hurtful that word can truly be.
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like you said - there is a long nasty history behind the word.
to me that word will always be a symbol of hate and ignorance in its purest form.