RE: Charles Barkley
December 3, 2014 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2014 at 12:33 pm by Heywood.)
(December 3, 2014 at 11:09 am)bennyboy Wrote:(December 3, 2014 at 10:17 am)Heywood Wrote: Oreo is a derogatory word, but the "derogatoriness" of the remark refers to ones character and not their skin color. Not all blacks consider oreo to be a racist term and neither do I.
Let me be racially unbiased here, then, in saying that both you and the black people you are talking about are fucking idiots. Oreo means "black on the outside, but white on the inside." It's just about as explicitly racist as a term can possibly be.
Racism
noun
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
Nobody thinks that "oreo" refers to all members of a race like the word "nigger" or "cracker" does. "Oreo" is a derogatory word directed at a characteristic of an individual and not a characteristic of an entire race. Racism is about characteristics of an entire race so for the word to be racist it has to be something which attempts to make a description about an entire race. The term "nigger" can be applied to all blacks(by a racist person). The term "oreo" can not credibly be applied to all blacks(even by a racist person).
