One Mans Reaction to racial slur on Survivor Series

**Pete** · 11-30-2005, 06:22 AM

The thing about the word 'nigga' is that it has been popularised as a greeting by blacks themselves, to my knowledge Jews don't go around saying to each other 'whatup Kyke'. Also as the article mentions some blacks differentiate between the word 'nigga' and 'nigger'. To a certain extent I think the 'cat is out of the bag' with regard to the word being used by other ethnicities.

For my own part I don't think Vince should have said it and as I have black relatives myself I dislike hearing the word tossed around lightly because of the harm I have seem first hand that it can cause but at the same time I understand why he may have thought it was acceptable to use it. If I was the guy who wrote the article I would direct more of my ire at rappers/others who put the word into the public domain rather than Vince McMahon, especially when it was obvious he had the cooperation of two black people in the skit.

In repsonse to Funky Fly, racism is Far from confined to whites, I mean look at a movie like 'Guess Who' where the cntral joke is the black fathers racism towards the white fiance, if the roles were reversed it wouldn't be treated as a comedy and if it was there would probably be a huge uproar about it.

11-30-2005, 06:22 AM	#27
Pete Posts: 4,642	The thing about the word 'nigga' is that it has been popularised as a greeting by blacks themselves, to my knowledge Jews don't go around saying to each other 'whatup Kyke'. Also as the article mentions some blacks differentiate between the word 'nigga' and 'nigger'. To a certain extent I think the 'cat is out of the bag' with regard to the word being used by other ethnicities. For my own part I don't think Vince should have said it and as I have black relatives myself I dislike hearing the word tossed around lightly because of the harm I have seem first hand that it can cause but at the same time I understand why he may have thought it was acceptable to use it. If I was the guy who wrote the article I would direct more of my ire at rappers/others who put the word into the public domain rather than Vince McMahon, especially when it was obvious he had the cooperation of two black people in the skit. In repsonse to Funky Fly, racism is Far from confined to whites, I mean look at a movie like 'Guess Who' where the cntral joke is the black fathers racism towards the white fiance, if the roles were reversed it wouldn't be treated as a comedy and if it was there would probably be a huge uproar about it.