Nigger

What does that make you think? It doesn't make you think at all does it? It makes you feel. You're probably uncomfortable. You may even be wanting to look around and make sure no one sees you reading something that has that word as the headline.

Websters partly "defines" the word this way: The most offensive word in the English language.
Now first of all that ain't even a definition. It's a description, and it's the only word in the whole damned yankee dictionary that is described, instead of defined.

The modern PC movement is an exercise in futility. For example... You just can't call anyone a retard, or a mongoloid anymore. Now you have to say, "Mentally Challenged". See we had to stop using those other words, because they developed a negative conotation. The funny thing is though... Ever noticed that the jokes haven't changed? Its just that now, instead of calling someone a mongoloid when they do something stupid, we pat them on the back and say, "You must be mentally challenged." Same thing. In the end, what ever we use as a substitute for retard, or mongoloid, will be associated with 'dumb'. Why? Because language doesn't change reality.

It's funny that for a long time... nearly 130 years... black folks were happy with the term, "negro". But then they found that it needed changing. Coincidentally this happened not long after the divorce rate, and unwed-mother rate in the black community began to sky-rocket. So they went from negro, to black, to colored, to person of color, to black, and now to African-American. Each time they would have to change it, because the word would develope some negative conotation. In the end... It's fultile. Language cannot alter reality. Reality is, that blacks commit a disporpotionate amount of crime in this country (11% of the population - 30% of the crime: FBI). They are also more poorly educated. Studies have shown the average black high school graduate read at level comparable to a white 8th grader.

So why was "negro" ok for so long? Simple. Blacks were secure with who they were. They were a moral, noble race, that was looked on positively in general in the South. One of the largest problems blacks faced during the occupation and indoctrination of the CSA, was that yankee soldiers were lead to believe that they were immoral, and stupid like animals. When faced with a moral, and incredibily religous black reality, they often resorted to force. I quote "A soul looks back", writtin in 1910 by a former slave:

"When the yankee soldier came to a house, first they would rape the field girls. Then they would rape the missy girls. Then they would get drunk. Then they would rape the white women."

Now the problem with 'Nigger' is the emotional reaction it causes. There are some serious pavlovian influences here. I say, "Nigger", and some black kid does something stupid. He takes a swing, and then I press charges, and he goes to jail. For the rest of his life, he checks 'yes' on his employment applications. Me? I got a sore jaw that will feel better tomarrow.

Obviously this is something that I do not condone, do not feel, and do not do. However, others do. Others will use this word to make a kid do something that will scew up his whole life, out of pure damned meaness.

Its insane to assign that kind of power to a word. It's the equivilent of loading a gun and handing it to your worst enemy. The word means 'black'. That's all. Getting yourself thrown in jail over some racist stating the obvious is insane. Next time... Laugh at him.