Many years ago I taught young black kids in an inner city. I acquired a profound contempt for the kind of culture, or lack of it, that I encounterd there. I learned a contempt that I never experienced from viewing poor urban America at a distance. The worst of it was a poverty of spirit that was greater than the physical poverty.
But I've never seen a reason to use that word. Whatever your feeling about black people generally, these people are our neighbors. Nothing will alter that fact.
We don't live in Yugoslavia or Iraq. We live in America, and I believe that we can find a way to live together without nursing this poison in our hearts.
I regard the use of the word nigger like I regard the use of pot. When used in the first instance, no immediate measureable harm is done to the person. But both of these practices are daggers aimed at our liberties. The long-term, wider consequences of using them provides the PTB ample ammunition to restrict our freedoms.
Personally, I don't deny anyone the right to use pot or to say the word nigger or any other word that suits them. But I don't use pot or call folks nigger out of principle. I ain't playing either game.
I used to drive a taxi many years ago, doing school deseg runs, transporting niglets from their area into white schools 30 miles away.
Once, one the the niglets found a fly buzzing around in the back seat, and smashed it, shouting in triumph, "I killed the nigga!"
The blacks I saw were always calling each other nigga this and nigga that.
I live in a neighborhood that prolly 50% black, 40%white, and 10%mexican. It's prolly more white than my guess, as we tend not to hang out on tha corna quite so much.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
We don't live in Yugoslavia or Iraq. We live in America, and I believe that we can find a way to live together without nursing this poison in our hearts.
We need to bring them here, it's called Multicultural Diversity and best I can tell it's some sort of new religion. Let's sell them some crackers, right?
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
