Soooooooo Charlie Sheen had some words for his ex-wife Denise Richards.
Check it out here
And in the words of AOL:
“On Wednesday, a three-year-old voicemail that Sheen left for Richards was made public, in which Sheen calls Richards, among other insults, a “f—— n—–,” despite the fact that she’s not black.”
Now ok…why exactly did AOL feel the need to point out that Denise Richards is not black…as if the only niggers in the world are black folks??? Granted the slur has been typically used exclusively to describe African Americans…I personally know a whole lot of NIGGERS who are not black.
So, in my quest for enlightenment as to why the author of this article believes that only black people can be niggers, I visited dictionary.com…and look what I found:
Nig-ger: Slang. Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
Well, looks like Charlie Sheen was more educated than the idiotic author that wrote this article. So now Charlie Sheen is doing damage control, apologizing to his black friends and the black community. Personally, I really dont give a shit that he called her a nigger. I’m actually HAPPY to hear the term transcend beyond us ‘common black folks.’
I feel like a part of the reason the n-word has been pigenholed into a slur against blacks is because we accept it. So, lets stop. Starting today…(and in honor of Juneteenth) walk up to every white person you know and say ‘what’s up my nigga!.’ Watch them squirm then bust out laughing. If only they knew that some of them are niggers just like us…ha!
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Circa 1962 or ‘63, Lenny Bruce did some stand up material about semantics and offending people. He said, take n—–, for example. All you have to do is repeat it seventeen times and it no longer means anything.”
Naturally, he did just that to an astounded nightclub audience.
Then he crowed, “See? It’s meaningless now. It’s no longer offensive!”
Mr. Bruce could be surprisingly naive about some things.
I think the n word has become currency in a daily negotiation, a way to shock our parents, (especially when misspelled & ending in a instead of r) and a form of control. We can say it, you white folks can’t. Or alternately, if you black folks say it, you’re hypocrits with no self-respect.
Nobody has a solution for poverty, homelessness, fatherless kids and fatherless kids with guns. Nobody can solve the problem of white owned companies fleeing urban areas for the suburbs, only to find that they can’t maintain their staffing levels because people in the inner city can’t get to the burbs by bus. Oh, but we can all argue bitterly and authoritively about the n word. It makes us feel so validated.
Nominal aphasia can be a good thing. It’s interesting how much simpler social interaction becomes when the n word is simply deleted from one’s vocabulary. It’s more difficult to feel offended by a word you don’t use, no matter how many times you hear other people use it.
lol! Good points, except that I don’t agree that we accept it. What do you mean by that? Just because there are black people that USE the word in a friendly manner to refer to their black friends isn’t a good enough reason to say that. Or do you mean that, as a race that was condemned by that word, we do not do enough to dispell its meaning?
Only up for some friendly debate!
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slync81 Says: June 20, 2008 at 8:27 am e
lol! Good points, except that I don’t agree that we accept it. What do you mean by that? Just because there are black people that USE the word in a friendly manner to refer to their black friends isn’t a good enough reason to say that. Or do you mean that, as a race that was condemned by that word, we do not do enough to dispell its meaning?
Only up for some friendly debate!
To answer your question…I dont mean that we accept it by using the term, I mean that until very recently, we did not do much to dispel the stereotype that nigger was synonymous with an African American person. In fact, we go as far as getting MAD when white people use the term to refer to each other in a friendly manner. Its almost like we’ve adopted the term as opposed to shunning it. We feel like its ‘our’ word when really it was a word that was developed to degrade and belittle us. I personally feel that the best way to take the power out of the word is to turn it around on others as well. If we stop taking ‘ownership’ of the word nigger, people like the AOL writer wont feel the need to say point out the fact that someone who was NOT black was called a nigger…why? because now nigger applies to everyone, not just black people. Make sense?
I agree that it was stupid to say “despite the fact that she’s not black”, as if it would be appropriate if she was.
However, I don’t buy it when the people (and yes, the dictionary) say that it is a word that refers to an ignorant person, regardless of race. Many people who feel that way have not experienced the brutality of the word.
When someone shouted “nigger” to me from across the street, or told me that their mother said they should call people like me a “nigger”, they weren’t trying to say that i was ignorant, they were trying to insult me because I’m black.
Yes, it makes sense, and I agree. Black people HAVE adopted the word, and its a disrespect to our elders that we now see it as a way to clarify ourselves and our culture rather than what it is – a derogatory name.
However, I don’t think the word will ever ‘apply to everyone’ in the way that you hope for. It’s too ingrained in our history for it to be recognised as something that can be used universally. If a white child asked its parents what nigger means, they’re not going to refer them to the dictionary, they will say what they THINK it means.
But we can hope.
(Good post!)
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