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Originally Posted by Dorkchop
Have any balck people posted in this thread, or anyone not white?
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While I'm half white (Half Native), I still consider myself blacker than Funky Fly.
Anyway, wiseass comments aside, I may not know what it's like to be black, but I know what it's like to be a minority. People die in this country on a disturbingly regular basis for being "faggots," and many of them aren't even actually "faggots." And while I can't tell you exactly what he black experience is, I can guaran-damn-tee you one thing: Each "black" person's response will be different. There is no one reaction for blacks to nigger, any more than there is a gay response to faggot, a Jewish response to Kike, or an asian's response to the 5 million racial slurs they have.
I went down to Pearl Street last week, and got shot some dirty looks for the term "queer." Some gays don't care. Some hate the term. Some use it to ID themselves. And yes, there are blacks that do the same thing, it's called empowerment.
This is one of the reasons I use words like fag so damn often, because the more shit like this is used the less meaning it has and the less power it has over people. However, even some of my own friends disagree with me, and feel that the deaths of people like the iconicised Mathew Shepphard or however it's spelled are reason enough to take this shit seriously.
There is. No agreement. In any. Minority. Period.
We are all people who hold different ideals and different things rub us the wrong way.