It is funny how some people never show up or make comment

[i am herdman]

when a numb skull like the Harrison guy from Kentucky basketball opens his mouth.

Just think if the guy from Wisconsin had said that about Harrison? Career over.

 

[Walden Pond]

Harrison will have enough problems of his own if that's how he's going to carry himself.

 

[i am herdman]

One guy in the national media, Dan Wetzel, wrote that is was not racial. Stupid comment but not racial.

So what if the guy from Wisconsin had said it?

 

[Walden Pond]

I've heard that if you say it the way Harrison did then it's OK. The guy from Wisconsin likely would have had a difficult time, but maybe he could have learned not to enunciate the ending and he would have been all right. If you pronounce it with a clear -er ending though, your goose is cooked.

That's what the cultural gurus seem to be saying.

 

[A Cousin From Richmond]

There will be a time in the near future where the roles will be reversed and a white guy will drop the version ending in -a toward a black guy.

And all hell will break loose.

 

[i am herdman]

I don't get the whole thing. Let's call each other a name we don't like. Now calling white guys that word.

Reminds me of Steve Martin in the Jerk.
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[Walden Pond]

I don't know. That's why I prefer concrete things like equations and physical properties of construction materials. All this cultural stuff is too wishy washy, theoretical voodoo, Kentucky basketball, things that you just can't always depend on.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

It wasn't racial. That's how some of these kids talk. He uses two words he uses every day, that he uses without giving it a thought. It was still classless.
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[i am herdman]

Originally posted by Raoul Duke MU:
It wasn't racial. That's how some of these kids talk. He uses two words he uses every day, that he uses without giving it a thought. It was still classless.

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So we used it growing up as well and meant nothing by it either.

 

[riflearm2]

Originally posted by i am herdman:

So we used it growing up as well and meant nothing by it either.

it's called situational awareness. due to the history of the word by whites against blacks in the situations it was used, it is never appropriate for a white to use that word. a black using that word toward a white is entirely different than a white using it against a black.

as a kid playing basketball, older black players gave me the nickname "lil nig." even at a young age, i was aware of the meaning of the word and how it wasnt appropriate for me to use even in a non-demeaning way, but it was alright for blacks to use in that way.

 

[i am herdman]

Originally posted by riflearm2:

Originally posted by i am herdman:

So we used it growing up as well and meant nothing by it either.

it's called situational awareness. due to the history of the word by whites against blacks in the situations it was used, it is never appropriate for a white to use that word. a black using that word toward a white is entirely different than a white using it against a black.

as a kid playing basketball, older black players gave me the nickname "lil nig." even at a young age, i was aware of the meaning of the word and how it wasnt appropriate for me to use even in a non-demeaning way, but it was alright for blacks to use in that way.

It really just shows one reason the black the community can't gain respect. They walk around calling each other that word. Who the hell is going to take someone seriously that walks around doing that?

Why do black leaders and black parents keep tolerating this?

It would be like whites walking around hey cracka. Hey hillbilly. Redneck, please.

 

[SHAMMOND16]

The way I've always thought about it is when someone is in a group, you can get away with doing things that people from outside the group can't get away with.

For example:

In the state of WV, you see guys that have "redneck" on the back of their trucks. You have country songs that sing about "rednecks" from WV and all around the south. You see whites who call other whites rednecks, hicks, hillbillies, etc. Let someone from Hollywood, a politician from DC, or someone in the media call them rednecks and see what happens.


I agree it's stupid either way and the black community & the white community are stupid in that sense. But it does work both ways.

 

[banker6796]

Herdman, whatup my hillbilla?

 

[big_country90]

Originally posted by riflearm:

it's called situational awareness. due to the history of the word by whites against blacks in the situations it was used, it is never appropriate for a white to use that word. a black using that word toward a white is entirely different than a white using it against a black.

as a kid playing basketball, older black players gave me the nickname "lil nig." even at a young age, i was aware of the meaning of the word and how it wasnt appropriate for me to use even in a non-demeaning way, but it was alright for blacks to use in that way.

The black guys on my junior high basketball team are the ones who started calling me big country. They called me that all through high school. Then, without prompting, the black guys I played ball with every night at the rec center at WVU started calling me the same thing. Then, when I went through a 6 month training program for my bank, all the black guys there started calling me that, again, with no prompting from me whatsoever.

Were they racist? Or was I just that cool, like you?

 

[SHAMMOND16]

Since when was "Big Country" a historically derogatory term? What if they called you a f@ggot? I bet that wouldn't have been ok. But when a group of gay guys call each other f@ggots, they laugh.



It's like when a fat guy calls another fat guy fat....everyone laughs.
But when a skinny guy calls a fat guy fat....the skinny guy is a mean asshole.


It's just the way the world works.

 

[Walden Pond]

The only names that really count are the ones they call you behind your back. That's when the truth comes out. My favorite was being called retarded. The people always sounded so unsure when they called me that. They weren't too sure about it, but they thought there was a pretty good chance it was right.

Once you realize you might not starve to death over it, people thinking you're real dumb is kind of funny.