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Author: Day BrownDay Brown Date: Jul 30, 2008 20:05
Noon-Air wrote:
>> I have lived in the Black community, like the 9th ward of New Orleans,
>> and heard 'nigger' used all the time, in some part a way for them to
>> defuse, and get over it; which you cannot.
>
> Sorry sport, I also lived in the 9th ward in NOLA. That in itself does
> not give you license to use the "N" word. While I am at it, there are
> all types in all races... you don't have to be black or white to be
> racist. Fortunately, I wasn't raised that way, and I didn't raise my
> children that way either. If you want to live in the dark past, then
> your welcome to it, but please don't try to drag others down to your
> level. As a mechanical contractor, I deal with all types of people every
> day. there are some homes that I have been in where I have had to come
> home, strip down outside, take a shower, and put on clean clothes before
> I could continue my work day. The sad fact is that there are just as
> many undesirable trashy types that are other colors than just black, and
> they live in the exclusive gated communities just as wall as in broken
> down trailers in the woods.
> I try to keep it real simple... their money is all green. You can do
> what you want but please keep it on alt.racist.
I try to follow Stoicism. I do not give anyone else the power to elicit
an emotional response in me with magic words like "nigger", "honkey", or
whatever. If you wish to remain vulnerable to what others say in this
way, I dont have a problem with it. But REAL empowerment, as Epictetus
and the others show, is to be in full control of yourself at all times,
and now you want me to control myself in the presence of others with the
full expectation that they are unable to do so for themselves.
Which is racist on the face of it.
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