> 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.