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(Yahoo) Hero Not only does Jesse Jackson wish people would stop using the n-word, he wants black rappers, comedians and hip-hop artists to go first   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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styckx [OhFark]
2006-11-28 8:10:47 PM  
Great, can't wait for the rerelease of Pulp Fiction when this ban hits movies


Did you see a sign out in front of my house that said dead African American storage"

/diaf jesse
 
supichoo
2006-11-28 8:34:33 PM  
they'll quit fried chicken and watermellon first

isle seat near the wing plzkthx
 
HumbleGod
2006-11-28 9:03:41 PM  
Makes sense, rappers and comedians use the term most frequently. He realizes the hypocrisy in black folks getting mad at those who use an offensive term that they themselves also use. To claim the high road, you gotta take the high road first.

Anyway, good for Jackson. It's an outdated term whose time has come and gone.
 
titwrench
2006-11-28 9:31:49 PM  
Can I still be a cracker because I like when my black friends call me cracker.
 
JimmyHoffa2222
2006-11-28 9:32:13 PM  
I don't like jesse jackson but I agree with this
 
Confabulat [TotalFark]
2006-11-28 9:33:57 PM  
That'll never fly in Hymietown.
 
Bill Frist
2006-11-28 9:35:10 PM  
I think it is a dumb idea.

Banning a word only gives it more power.
 
Bonzy20
2006-11-28 9:36:01 PM  
JimmyHoffa2222 [TotalFark]

I don't like jesse jackson but I agree with this

Ditto.
 
doodoobutter
2006-11-28 9:40:26 PM  
The hero tag?

Seems more like dumbass to me.

Unless, of course, you meant the columnist was the hero. Or Michael Richards.

/confused
 
Josh The Stampede
2006-11-28 9:41:02 PM  
Bill Frist: Banning a word only gives it more power.

QFT.

The word isn't the problem here, it's the sentiment behind it. If Michael Richards had yelled "Get that guy out of here, he's black and I hate blacks and fifty years ago you'd be lynched!" he'd be in just as much trouble. It's about racism, not vocabulary.

The N-word just happens to be such that you can't say it innocently if you aren't black. Calling a black man "Boy" is offensive, too, but we can't ban the word "boy", and we wouldn't because people know that it's not always racist.
 
Heroic Poser
2006-11-28 9:41:05 PM  
Ya. You tell me when that happens.

Probably right after all Country Music singers stop singing about porch's, dogs and ex-wives.
 
WhitePac
2006-11-28 9:42:16 PM  
Can I still call a broken beer bottle a "attractive and successful African-American knife".
 
g1flash23
2006-11-28 9:43:02 PM  
Are we going back to Negro?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2006-11-28 9:45:33 PM  
Because blacks are the only people who have been mistreated in the history of mankind and therefore we must treat them like delicate fabrege eggs until the end of time.
 
bansidhe66
2006-11-28 9:49:27 PM  
Well fark me runnin'- I actually agree with that pop-eyed attention ho on something. Lead by example, what a novel concept. Surely another sign of the apocalypse.
 
JJ Money
2006-11-28 9:51:25 PM  
Yeah, prohibiting things such as...words that have many meanings...works really well.

Douchey idea.
 
An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name
2006-11-28 9:51:47 PM  
Those offended by a word are weak.
 
dumb_n00b
2006-11-28 9:52:44 PM  
I actually agree with that pop-eyed attention ho on something.

Nicole Richie?
 
DoBeDoBeDo [TotalFark]
2006-11-28 9:54:30 PM  
No one is calling for a ban or a prohibition. They are simply telling people 'if you want other people to stop using the word then you stop using the word"

It's the first thing Jackson has done that I can agree with.
 
JJ Money
2006-11-28 10:02:30 PM  
But it's an impossible idea.
 
The Mad Cockatiel
2006-11-28 10:04:48 PM  
My favorite commentary related to Mugato's post.
 
Saturn5
2006-11-28 10:05:15 PM  
And he also wants a boycott of the Season 7 DVD set of Seinfeld, because it came out the same week as Richard's "tirade."

/Jackson is still a douche.
 
PTW16
2006-11-28 10:07:21 PM  
So, as my old and grizzled ex-Marine grandfather once asked..."Are we back to calling them coloreds again?"
 
chuggernaught
2006-11-28 10:14:44 PM  
The best part is that Jesse's son is a carbon copy of his father. So if you were looking forward to shiat like this stopping when he dies then I have some bad news for you.
 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark]
2006-11-28 10:15:27 PM  
Jackson is an anti-semetic douchesucker, but in this case, he is dead on. Please let's kill the thug culture. It's every stereotype of black people that we whities have had since the end of slavery.
 
booha
2006-11-28 10:29:02 PM  
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bbowie
2006-11-28 10:56:55 PM  
its just a word.
 
Delawheredad
2006-11-28 10:58:19 PM  
Great idea. It won't fly. A wise man once said "There is nothing worse than someone living down to their stereotypes" -- gansta "culture" proves that in spades!
 
Former Lee Warmer
2006-11-28 11:15:45 PM  
Was it the Laugh Factory that, after the "kramer thing", decided to ban ALL 'hatespeech"?

Good luck with having Sinbad and.....well, Sinbad as your only acts.

/actually likes Sinbad, but doesn't think this'll bode well for the club
 
LessO2
2006-11-28 11:23:25 PM  
First good idea from Jesse Jackson ever.

I'm sure Fiddy Cent and Jay-Z will stop doing that.

Then find out their record sales would drop.

Then keep on doing it.
 
smeag0l
2006-11-28 11:49:42 PM  
nubianh Pleaze
 
robbiedo
2006-11-29 12:08:23 AM  
Brazil nuts can no longer be referred to to "N-word toes"
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2006-11-29 12:08:33 AM  
If Dave Chappelle ever comes back, he's lost half his act. You can't get by on just repeating "biatch".
 
jayhorn5
2006-11-29 12:35:05 AM  
img.fark.net to happen. Let's be for serious.
 
syrynxx [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-11-29 12:46:12 AM  
hypocrisy in black folks
Amen. First time I've agreed with that attention whore on anything since his reading of 'green eggs and ham'.

Context my deep blue eyes. Someone tried to claim context because if you called your male friend a biatch; he'd laugh, but if you called your wife a biatch; she'd get angry.

180 degrees out of phase. Calling a woman a biatch is 100% offensive; calling a man a biatch is basically calling yourself a homosecksual. Calling a black person a knicker is either offensive or it isn't. Either a black person is offended by being called a knicker or s/he isn't. Either it's an insult or it is not. The phrase 'my knicker' is offensive to me; I would never allow a peer to call me that and I have 0 respect for anyone who tolerates that derogatory epithet applied to them.
 
DeathByGeekSquad
2006-11-29 12:53:33 AM  
He hasn't been in the news recently, Sharpton has, I was expecting something like this...

I can't wait for the great Jackson vs Sharpton vs Obama debate.

/it could happen
 
Mentalpatient87
2006-11-29 2:59:50 AM  
styckx

http://pulpfictionedited.ytmnd.com/
 
Tungsten--Rail-
2006-11-29 8:35:51 AM  
This is fiction, just cause some crasy guy ask people to stop saying will only make people want to say it more. I say say it all you want, its freedom of speech, if you can't get over a word that is making you weak it's not anyone else's fault but your weak minded ways. The word only has power if you give it power, if you ignore it it will get old do to no one caring and just come up with a cooler word, and thus the cycle will continue no matter what. MIND OVER MATTER PEOPLE..
 
VARoyalty
2006-11-29 8:55:58 AM  
I don't agree with banning any words for any reason, but something needs to be done about the n-word. Blacks can go around calling each other that all they want, but if a white person says it, all hell breaks loose, and it's asinine. Either everyone can say it, or nobody can say it, it's that simple. Like Mugato said, blacks act like they're the ONLY people in history that have ever been treated badly and therefore should be given special treatment...but it's getting old. Every time they cry about racism when there's no racism, they diminish the TRUE instances of racism. It's like they keep crying wolf and nobody really cares anymore. Get your ass in gear, get an education, a job, and stop demanding handouts because of the color of your skin. Life would be a LOT better, and you would be able to know that you EARNED everything you have, and not have to wonder if you only got the job/scholarship/whatever because they needed to fill a quota. The hip-hop "culture" makes blacks look bad as a group (it's not fair, I know, but that's just how it is) and they need to do something to fix it. It would be nice if they could do something positive, instead of talking about shooting people, drugs, jail, bling, and God knows what else. Either way, I hope they make it a word that everyone can say, or just make it socially unacceptable for EVERYONE because these double standards are getting real old.
 
Opiate of the Lasses
2006-11-29 3:16:01 PM  
Josh The Stampede: The word isn't the problem here, it's the sentiment behind it. If Michael Richards had yelled "Get that guy out of here, he's black and I hate blacks and fifty years ago you'd be lynched!" he'd be in just as much trouble. It's about racism, not vocabulary.

The N-word just happens to be such that you can't say it innocently if you aren't black. Calling a black man "Boy" is offensive, too, but we can't ban the word "boy", and we wouldn't because people know that it's not always racist.

I think this is the most intelligent post I have ever seen on Fark. It gives me hope that relations will get better in the future because there are people who think this way. The word is just that, a word. The problem is the feelings behind it. People need to learn to be more tolerant, not just to hide their bigotry. I live in the alleged bastion of tolerance that is Northern CA, and I can tell you I've never been called attractive and successful African-American or anything like that, but it doesn't mean I haven't been discriminated against, albeit very politely and subtly. It's not progress if it's OK to still hate black people, just as long as you don't say attractive and successful African-American *wink, wink*. This applies to any and all forms of discrimination. If a person deserves your scorn, they deserve it individually, not as a group based on genetic characteristics they have no control over.

Jesse is a loser race-baiter who has done more harm than good in the last 10 years in my opinion, but he is right on this.
 
Nuuu [OhFark]
2006-11-29 5:54:44 PM  
Mugato: Because blacks are the only people who have been mistreated in the history of mankind and therefore we must treat them like delicate fabrege eggs until the end of time.

You're right, blacks aren't the only group who have been mistreated in history. I would hope that in public discourse we would respect every race and ethnicity regardless of mistreatment.

Here, the problem isn't slavery 200 years ago, but continuing inequity between the races that exists today. Blacks aren't doing as well as whites in America on average. The situation is improving, but it's not equal yet.

Since our relative positions aren't equal, when we use these racial epithets against blacks, we're not just insulting their race, we're rubbing our real, present day entitlement in their faces, and that's just not right.

Blacks don't have that problem when they make fun of whites. When they call white people names, they're the ones with nothing jabbing at the ones who have everything. It softens the blow considerably.

If you called Bill Gates a worthless scoundrel, would he care? He'd laugh till he had to wipe his arse with a hundred dollar bill. But if Bill Gates came to your home and called you a worthless layabout who can't provide for your family, that hurts. He didn't need to do that. It doesn't matter if it's true. It's just plain poor taste. So don't be that guy.
 
bansidhe66
2006-11-29 9:01:36 PM  
Blacks don't have that problem when they make fun of whites. When they call white people names, they're the ones with nothing jabbing at the ones who have everything. It softens the blow considerably.

No, it merely justifies dragging around a lousy attitude.

Years ago, I was giving a friend/coworker occasional rides to drug rehab counseling. J., by his own admission and in his own words, was a crackhead. One one trip, he marveled how another cowoker, a successful engineer with a family, nice home and expensive cars, could rant and rave that "the man" was keeping him from the success he was owed, while J. was on the verge of getting thrown out of his apartment, losing his girlfriend and children, and had to ask for rides because he couldn't afford to keep his car running- all because of his addiction. (Not a disease, a farking addiction- he didn't "catch" being a junkie.) J. shook his head, and said, "Everything that dude has, he's worked for, nobody has given or owes him a damn thing, and everything that's happening in my life, I've done to myself."

I respect J. deeply for acknowledging his own responsibility and not dumping it on others, and pray that he found his own success. HE has earned it.
 
dfenstrate
2006-11-30 8:48:31 AM  
Holy sh*t. Jesse Jackson is blaming the problems of the black on the black underclass instead of whitey?

Someone mark this date and time in a history book.
 
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