| Author |
Message |
    
Brownbeauty123
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2046
Registered: 03-2006
Rating: 
Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 01:44 pm: | 
|
The NAACP has buried the word "nigga"..do you think that this will stop ppl in the black community especially those in the public eye (rappers, comedians) from using it anymore? |
Chrishayden
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4848
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 02:05 pm: |
|
If it does it will not stop white yellow red and brown people using it--and this is what we are concerned about isn't it? |
Brownbeauty123
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2048
Registered: 03-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 03:56 pm: |
|
DETROIT - There was no mourning at this funeral.
ADVERTISEMENT
Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.
The ceremony included a march by delegates from across the country from downtown Detroit's Cobo Center to Hart Plaza. Along the way, two Percheron horses pulled a pine box adorned with a bouquet of fake black roses and a black ribbon printed with a derivation of the word.
The coffin is to be placed at Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery and will have a headstone.
"Today we're not just burying the N-word, we're taking it out of our spirit," said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. "We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the 'pimps' and the 'hos' that go with it."
He continued: "Die N-word, and we don't want to see you 'round here no more."
The N-word has been used as a slur against blacks for more than a century. It remains a symbol of racism, but also is used by blacks when referring to other blacks, especially in comedy routines and rap and hip-hop music.
"This was the greatest child that racism ever birthed," the Rev. Otis Moss III, assistant pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said in his eulogy.
Public discussion on the word's use increased last year following a tirade by "Seinfeld" actor Michael Richards, who used it repeatedly during a Los Angeles comedy routine and later issued a public apology.
The issue about racially insensitive remarks heated up earlier this year after talk show host Don Imus described black members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" on April 4.
NAACP National Board Chairman Julian Bond repeated the call during the opening address Sunday night for the 98th annual convention, which runs through Thursday.
"While we are happy to have sent a certain radio cowboy back to his ranch, we ought to hold ourselves to the same standard," Bond said. "If he can't refer to our women as `hos,' then we shouldn't either."
Black leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have challenged the entertainment industry and the American public to stop using the N-word and other racial slurs.
The NAACP held a symbolic funeral in Detroit in 1944 for Jim Crow, the systematic, mostly Southern practice of discrimination against and segregation of blacks from the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction into the mid-20th century.
|
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9224
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: 
Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 09:15 pm: |
|
Dem niggas krazy. |
Renata
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Renata
Post Number: 2390
Registered: 08-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 10:19 pm: |
|
Kwame Kilpatrick. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy, but for some reason, his name just cracks me up. Poor guy can't help it. |
Troy
Veteran Poster
Username: Troy
Post Number: 705
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 11:08 pm: |
|
Thanks Cynique got my laugh for the night. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 9472
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 12:26 pm: |
|
The nigga is dead. Long live the NIGGA!!! |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5208
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 12:52 pm: |
|
This is NOT going to work. They can't just take niggger out of our vocabulary. They have to provide us with a replacement like nuppet or something  |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1698
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 03:38 pm: |
|
The nigga is dead. Long live the NIGGA!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA! |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1700
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 07:54 pm: |
|
My niggah only been dead and buried one whole day and I miss his ass somethin terrible!!! I don't know if I can live without him! I feel...well...sort of...empty without him...*sniff*
|
Libralind2
Veteran Poster
Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 881
Registered: 09-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 07:30 pm: |
|
good grief.....let the N word die..why dont ya
LiLi |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1709
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:08 pm: |
|
cuz I don't want to. K? K. |
Enchanted
Veteran Poster
Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 952
Registered: 11-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:11 pm: |
|
Lili thats true we ARE colored an to me thats the best name for it an anyone who WANT to be called a _____ is trifling pitiful and backwrds as the day is long. I dont miss that word an its way overdew that we stop using tht ugliness. |
Enchanted
Veteran Poster
Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 953
Registered: 11-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:13 pm: |
|
Awoman like white trash we have black trash an thats what you are if want that word in your mouth I feel sorry for you. |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1710
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:18 pm: |
|
Well enchanted as far as black trash goes...well you would know more about black trash than I. I don't give a damn what you and anyone else thinks its only YOUR fukin opinion. You're entitled to yours and I'm DAMN sure entitled to mine. And if you don't like that...feel free to read other posts you agree with and leave mine the fuk alone. GOT IT??? |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1711
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:20 pm: |
|
And as I've said before niggers weren't the only ones lynched. BLACKS, COLOREDS, and NEGROES were hung from trees too. So why in the hell would I put any more weight on the word •••••• than any of these other "preferred words" ya dimwit! |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1712
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 08:36 pm: |
|
AND if you are dumb enough to think that holding a funeral for a damn WORD is going to make you any higher in the sight of THE ONES you seek to impress, think again. They will just replace the word with another and in THEIR minds, you'll still be a ••••••! and they'll STILL tell •••••• jokes when no •••••• is around! IT HAS BEEN PROVEN OVER AND OVER again so what's the fukin POINT???? |
Email This Page