N-Word, We Hardly Knew Ye...

[Mateo]

Story here

People from all walks of life gathered Saturday in different locations to attend funerals, where the common emotion was that of rejoicing. The funeral was for the N-word.

It's controversial. Accepted in some groups and often found in hip hop music, it's also a racial slur that is being buried all over the country.


Dozens of people in Pearland said their final goodbyes to the N-word, both figuratively and literally. Organizers of the funeral held at Houston Memorial Gardens symbolically buried the ethnic slur.

There was video of a casket which contained a noose, a burned cross, a replica of a Ku Klux Klan robe, and an axe.

[Young Drachma]

I heard about this on NPR today on my way to work. They irritate me. Not because of their mourning of the N-word, that's fine and all. But can't they do anything substantive? Or is that asking too much out of a once venerable organization that contributed much?

Meh.

[ISiddiqui]

Well, the other side is when they try to do substantive things against hate speech or whatnot, some on the opposing side say why don't they go after their own people that use the N-word before they go after white people that do.

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by Mateo

There was video of a casket which contained a noose, a burned cross, a replica of a Ku Klux Klan robe, and an axe.

But yet no bling, bling, Bentley keys, Cognac bottles or such that the word and its use has made "its own"

Grrrrr.....
what an infuriating subject

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Well, the other side is when they try to do substantive things against hate speech or whatnot, some on the opposing side say why don't they go after their own people that use the N-word before they go after white people that do.

I know. It's never a productive discussion no matter what. People lack the context to understand the significance of what they're saying. Yes, even the very kids who say it themselves on a very regular basis.

Even if they did, I think they'd still do it though.

I think by and large, the NAACP and its ilk have made a series of very bad miscalculations over the past thirty or so years. They never caught up with the times or the changing political climate. And the reasons are very similar to the reasons that so many third world countries are corrupt and poorly run.

[ThunderingHERD]

A transparent, hollow spectacle. The metaphor doesn't even work.

[EagleFan]

N words are not (dammit I said one) acceptable? What's next (dammit, there I go again)? We cannot stand idly by and watch our dictionary be taken hostage (phew made it through that sentence with no- dammit). I blame Al Gore for this....

[Karlifornia]

Where can I send donations in lieu of flowers? The N----- Foundation?