RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
November 3, 2017 at 7:42 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2017 at 7:42 am by Joods.
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(November 3, 2017 at 6:36 am)pocaracas Wrote: And the more you single them out, the more insulting and offensive the words become.
I'm just going to say in reference to the video (above) that for as much of a good intention as this story may be, the host introducing the segment had no problems holding up cards with the words "cracker" and "honky" on them and saying those words, but then went on to say there were other words in which he would not say. Cracker and honky are words clearly used to define white people. So why then, was it acceptable for that host, who is black, to say those words, but he would not mention any other words to describe any one else of a race that wasn't white? I got over 2 minutes into that before stopping to write this. I did not watch the other two videos you posted, but I just wanted to point this out because anyone here knows that had that host been white and used the n word, there would have been an uproar and a calling for his firing. But because he's black and he prefaced the news story with a caution for parents of younger kids, by saying cracker and honky, he gets a free pass.
ANY word negatively calling out someone based on that person's race, is wrong. Period. Just because these words were used as part of a story talking about the impact these words have on people, doesn't justify the host using the ones not pertaining to his own race, while refusing to use the ones that do.
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