Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Discrimination
The very word of discrimination makes me cringe. I think everybody in this world should be entitled to live a free life without the worrying of being labeled with some sort of derogatory word to describe there race. I think everybody in this country if they have the qualifications should be able to get any job they want and not be shunned because of the color of there skin. There is a lot of prejudice that goes on everywhere. When I was just graduated from high school, I became a big time partier. Granted I grew up in utah, where we did not see all that many black people, but at these parties I would hear white people go up to their friends and use the word "Nigga" and everytime I heard it, it would make me sick to my stomach. Do they know how derogatory that word even is? They would use it as a friend terminology but I don't think its right. Slavery has been over for quite some time and this racism in the US has got to stop. I know I am just one voice but if we all stick together maybe we can help people realize that what they are saying SHOULD NOT BE SAID!
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I do agree with most of what you said, everyone needs to take a step back and realize that we are not in the 19th centry any more and when people realize that, then we will see a change.
the only thing I don't fully agree with is: if a black person calls another black person a "nigga" then that is alright, it's when a white person calls a black person "nigga" that's when it becomes derogatory, but no one gets offended when a black person calls a white person "cracker" now too my understanding that is also derogatory. I think there needs to be a equal level of respect between all races, if we only single out one race to be nice to, then everything is still out of balance, it's when we have the equal respect for all races, and all races have equal respect for us, then things will balance out and on a whole racism will be extinguished.
I feel the same way you do when people use the word "nigga" I don't think it is appropriate in any situation. I am not trying to justify white people using the term but some black people seem to have made it ok. When there is only one white kid in a neighborhood and he is friends with everyone there is seems ok for him to say it. But what if he leaves that area with his black friends and uses the term and another white kid hears him using the word... then the random kid is going to think its ok. haha I don't know if that made any sense but it did in my brain. Anyways I would be stoked if someone came up with a way to get people to stop using it!
That's pretty funny because I the same thing happened in my high school. There were two black guys that went to my high school (that's Utah for you) and everyone would try and act cool with them by the phrase "wud up my nigga". First off that's just stupid because these kids were totally outside of that culture and second off that word is so derogatory! Most other places would totally look down on that kind of talk but it doesn't seem to be so in Utah. It seems we need a good dose of education on the matter.
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