I was called a ____ this morning by a ______ in the U.S. in 2007, for no reason

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
lol horsesh*t.

You expect me to believe that, you, a White guy visiting the ghetto, was called a "cracker" by a bunch of Black ghetto dudes, and you yelled out "N!GGER" back, and they didn't do anything?

They would've chased you down and gutted you. I doubt you had the balls. Were you alone?

Here's a story I can 100% assure you happened:

Me and my mom were in New Orleans, riding on the trolley, and black woman and what I assumed was her son were sitting within earshot of us, and she's having a conversation with her son who robbed a black person's house. She told him if he's going to rob someone, to rob a white person. Later on she said, and I quote, "The only good white man, is a dead white man."

Originally posted by Naz
Here's a story I can 100% assure you happened:

Me and my mom were in New Orleans, riding on the trolley, and black woman and what I assumed was her son were sitting within earshot of us, and she's having a conversation with her son who robbed a black person's house. She told him if he's going to rob someone, to rob a white person. Later on she said, and I quote, "The only good white man, is a dead white man."

I wonder if FoTN and his mother ever visited New Orleans...

This sorry ass thread is nothing but a shitty parody of a more serious one.

Very pathetic.

Originally posted by JacopeX
This thread is nothing but a shitty parody of a more serious one.

Very pathetic.

Originally posted by Naz
Why is being called a n*gger more serious than being called a cracker? Both are offensive racial slurs.

Originally posted by Naz
Why is being called a n*gger more serious than being called a cracker? Both are offensive racial slurs.

Well the word n*gger certainly has a lot more historical context, which makes it all the more offensive.

While the word cracker, lets face it, doesn't really have any, at all.

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Well the word n*gger certainly has a lot more historical context, which makes it all the more offensive.

While the word cracker, lets face it, doesn't really have any, at all.

Still, ignore the historical meaning of the word for a second and look at how they're both being used in the present day. They're both said by the opposite race to offend the other. Why does the historical meaning, which is exactly what it is, a definition a few hundred years old, why does that make the present meaning worse?

Originally posted by Naz
Still, ignore the historical meaning of the word for a second and look at how they're both being used in the present day. They're both said by the opposite race to offend the other. Why does the historical meaning, which is exactly what it is, a definition a few hundred years old, why does that make the present meaning worse?

I don't think you can take away the historical meaning, that's my whole point. We could say that about any word at all, ''well if you take away its meaning it's just letters''.

Of course a word that's synonymous with years of oppression is going to be more offensive. If I was black I would definitely be offended to be called a n*gger, I'm white and being called a cracker would mean nothing to me. Because it holds absolutely no historical relevance with the struggle of my race, in fact just the opposite.

Originally posted by JacopeX
I'm trying to say this never happened!

So you're psychic now too?

Anyway, back to the serious topic that sprouted up (regardless of whether or not the incident happened, for those of you trying to ignore the issue at hand) :

Yes, a double-standard is at work. Just look at the use of n*gger in the first place.

Will someone, please, explain to me why it's not offensive so long as both men are black; but lo and behold the moment a white man says it, he's knee-deep in hellfire and brimstone. If the word's as offensive and negative as the NAACP and ACLU keep telling us it is, WHY do those statements become null and void if it's used by a black man? Where else in society does this work? If I'm in anger-management classes, is it okay for me to come up and call someone an a**hole? After all, I'm one myself, so is it now perfectly acceptable?

Here's a better question; how long can the black community keep using n*gger with one another and honesty believe no white kid is going to pick it up and use it too? Especially with as popular as rap is getting (if you don't hear it in the first thirty minutes, you're listening to a censored radio station).

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
I don't think you can take away the historical meaning, that's my whole point. We could say that about any word at all, ''well if you take away its meaning it's just letters''.

Of course a word that's synonymous with years of oppression is going to be more offensive. If I was black I would definitely be offended to be called a n*gger, I'm white and being called a cracker would mean nothing to me. Because it holds absolutely no historical relevance with the struggle of my race, in fact just the opposite.

I know cracker has no historical context, but in the present-day context of a black person saying it to me for the sole reason of insulting me, I would find that offensive. I know that n*gger probably does sting a bit more, but that's no reason to think that calling a white person cracker is in any way okay or not offensive at all.

Seth Wynd, please don't tell me you're trying to say that every black person, is OK with hearing the word, in songs etc.? That would be extremely presumptuous and ignorant.

Originally posted by Naz
I know cracker has no historical context, but in the present-day context of a black person saying it to me for the sole reason of insulting me, I would find that offensive. I know that n*gger probably does sting a bit more, but that's no reason to think that calling a white person cracker is in any way okay or not offensive at all.

Of course not, in no way is it OK to offend someone in any way. Though that goes for any type of deliberately offensive name calling, which also has no historical context, the word n*gger does; so it's worse.

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Seth Wynd, please don't tell me you're trying to say that every black person, is OK with hearing the word, in songs etc.? That would be extremely presumptuous and ignorant.

As is your apparent decision to twist what I said to your own satisfaction rather than give any real input.

The intention is to offend someone on the basis of race with either, regardless of the reaction, neither action is better or worse than the other.

Reading back, I should have written; so it could be seen as being the more offensive of the two.

Just don't use n!gger, use nigga instead. Black people love it.

Originally posted by Violent2Dope
Which in turn makes you an ignorant racist and it pisses me off that a racist would have Jesus in your name. Just cause one black is racist doesn't mean all are.

You = Fail.

Originally posted by office jesus
You = Fail.

Who the hell is this guy saying hes Office Jesus? Yo, Im da only Jesus here son. Change your name or go to hell.

Originally posted by JesusTheChrist
Who the hell is this guy saying hes Office Jesus? Yo, Im da only Jesus here son. Change your name or go to hell.

I'm already there.

Originally posted by JacopeX
This sorry ass thread is nothing but a shitty parody of a more serious one.

Very pathetic.

Did you figure that out all by yourself, Sherlock?

BTW, the orginal thread is just as pathetic.