The n word.

[ccharles000]

I am very upset because I just had an argument with my uncle. He called Obama the n word and I called him a bigot. He told me that it meant ignorant and was not racist. I love my family but many of them are just plain stupid.:grr:

[msongs]

1. maybe he's been listening to too much rap music lately nt

[babylonsister]

2. You're right- I was taught the 'n' word was a curse and was never to be

used. I think my mom was right, too.

[Kahuna]

3. Truthfully Charles when a lot of black people use that word against

other black people they do mean ignorant people or people who hate to see other people have something. You know your uncle's heart. Judge him by his actions not his words.

[wellst0nev0ter]

10. Yep, Black People Made Him Do It

ffs.

[CreekDog]

12. well he called one of the smartest men in politics the n-word

then explained that it meant "ignorant".

i think that racism is involved by any reasonable standard.

[EFerrari]

14. Wtf?

:wtf:

[hfojvt]

16. not in my experience

They use it as a generic word for 'bro' and usually include themselves in the group, but they treat ni&&a as a different word than ni&&er. Some white people try to claim that it is another word for 'thug' and thus does not apply to all blacks, but just to the thugs. I think they are full of crap and that it will turn out that all the thugs they see just happen to be black people and that almost all of the black people they will just happen to think are thugs, even if the supposed thug in question is lawyer, mayor, US Senator, or President.

[rhett o rick]

4. This will be on Fake News before long. They will play innocently just reporting

people saying it. Probably actually show video of people saying it. Michael Savage will also start any time now.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. And posed as a question no less. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

5. So, he's ignorant...

...and elitist?

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Your uncle is a racist and a bigot and just plain stupid.

The republican party can only run on one issue this fall: 'ya gonna vote for the the n*?'. It is all they've got. I am confident that we as a people are better than that and will answer overwhelmingly, 'yes we are'.

[ccharles000]

13. I agree.

[two gun sid]

8. Your uncle's on the wrong side of history

he and people who hold opinions like him matter less and less. Don't let him get you down.

[Ilsa]

9. My hubby and I won't even let our kids hear that word.

It's on the nasty side of "fuck" on the spectrum of cursing and name-calling here.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Did he specify, exactly, why he thought Obama is 'ignorant'?

>>>He told me that it meant ignorant and was not racist.>>>>

[newmajority]

15. Racists have been trying to justify this one for years

Some of them even try to justify it by saying there's a difference between "black people" and "niggers".

Oh yeah? well what's the difference?

"Well, the black people are just ordinary folks who are black. Niggers are assholes"

Uh huh.... So what do you call white people who are assholes? Like yourself, for example?

(sound of freeper crickets chirping "Dixie")

No, seriously.... Isn't an asshole just an asshole?

"Well, but that's different, god dammit!!"

Yeah, how so?

It just IS !!11!11!111