(*#&%(*#&(^%*& What!? You have it ass-backwards. It wasn't the PC people that made nigger anything other than a meaningless descriptive! It was a racial slur LONG before the advent of the political correctness movement. That's where its pejorative value came from...
Actually "nigger" was originally equal to "negroe" but simply a rural pronounciation of it. I didn't actually expect anyone to call me on it, though. You are right that it became a pejorative well before the modern p.c. movement but not really until the Civil Rights movement and the introduction of television news film of big mouthed southern politicians did it move from being the equivalent of "African American" for the vast majority of Americans to being the representation of piggish and hateful ignorance. Funny that it should then have been adopted by the hip-hop generation as a term of endearment. Personally I only call my close friends "m'nigger." Yo yo yo... Ok, I *rarely* do that.
At this point in time "black" has somehow become a "bad word."
I dont think it has. Many people take pride, or at least wont take any offense, in being called 'black.'
Yeah, right. You mustn't've spent much time around black militant assholes that finally managed to read a biography of Malcolm X and are offended by ANYTHING a white man says. "Don't call me BLACK! I'm an 'African American." Fucking nonsense. It's just another way to keep a barrier between him and me so that the "haves" can keep us under control. Of course "black" is nowhere near as "bad" as "nigger" but it raises the hackles of many a stupid moron. The thing is that it really isn't the "haves and have nots." Most Americans are "have somes" or "have a lot more than they need" but it's just distractions. The television has told them that they need to buy a bunch of stupid shit to be happy: Nikes, Big Macs, and Ford Expeditions. It has also made sure that books, art, and leisure are not part of their desires. We are a nation of fat, lazy, ignorant, shallow, slugs and we deserve to crawl into the beer trap set out by the cohorts of Bush & Co. I saw a great picture today of a little kid in Bolivia carrying a trash bag three times his or her size full of plastic cups. The child was obviously scavenging in a dump and the caption read "Bolivian child takes part in globalization of labor." I've also seen pictures of a five year old working in a "computer recycling center" in China, dipping circuit boards in a bucket of solvent with his bare hands just to extract a tiny amount of gold. Most of those children die before they become teenagers. Yep, that's the kind of labor that makes Bush & Co jump for joy because it drives down wages here in the States. Only a matter of time until we're all pounding our Nike logo clothes in our shit filled rivers and hoping we can find some animal run over by a huge, armored SUV so we can eat something other than corn for supper. If only we "have just enoughs" could join up with the "have nots" but we can't because they're "African American" and we're not. www.psychicreform.com Who let that monkey in here!?! Dada is dead. Watch your overcoat. "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a slow death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham