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[otis]

I was looking at that thread where everyone is all assed up because Micheal Richards used the N-word! True. He didn't use wise judgment screaming it out several times in public.

But I use the N-word all the time. I even use it on white people.

I also use the C-word. That's my all time favorite.

And all I want to know is the truth. Have you ever said the N-word?

If you've never said it, then you have the right to all your moral outrage.

But if you have said it,--even whispered under your breath--then you're no better than Michael Richards or a dumb redneck like me.

So fess up! Have you said it?

[RACETRAITOR]

Reminding you all that I am a skinhead, no I never use that word. I'm not a racist moron.

[gang ah jee]

I don't think the issue was so much that he said the word, it was that he meant it.

[otis]

[gang ah jee]

[cubanlord]

[otis]

That's all I'm saying.

Michael Richards isn't out there burning crosses on people's front lawns.

He overreacted to getting heckled.

[Satori]

[jajdude]

Careful, even a word that merely sounds bad can cause trouble. Remember this? It happened in 1999.

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Washington, DC's black Mayor, Anthony Williams, gladly accepted the resignation of his white staff member, David Howard, because Mr. Howard uttered the word 'niggardly' in a private staff meeting.

Webster's Tenth Edition defines the word 'niggardly' to "grudgingly mean about spending or granting". The Barnhard Dictionary of Etymology traces the origins of 'niggardly' to the 1300's, and to the words 'nig' and 'ignon', meaning "miser" in Middle English. No where in any of these references is any mention of racial connotations associated with the word 'niggardly'.

In other words, it's a perfectly good and useful word. But there is the unfortunate coincidence that it starts with the same four letters as the word "nig ger". The news media are so loathe to use the "N" word, that they've been substituting the phrase "racial slur", as in "...they mistook the word 'niggardly' for a racial slur..."

Washington, DC's population is 60% black, and it's citizens have been very critical of Mayor Williams for "not being black enough" -- especially because he hired several well-qualified whites to help him run this troubled city.

Racial intolerance, ignorance, and misplaced political correctness have cost a white mayoral aide his job in Washington, DC. And, as many of the other stories on Adversity.Net clearly illustrate, the "niggardly" controversy is only the tip of the "intolerance iceberg".
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I think the guy was re-hired soon after though.

http://www.adversity.net/special/niggardly.htm

[RACETRAITOR]

If Michael Richards had been calling the hecklers "bastards" or "retards" we'd still be laughing at him for having a meltdown on stage, which makes him a bad comedian regardless of how offensive the words he used are.

[gang ah jee]

[millsy99]

Who's Michael Richards anyway?

[Mashimaro]

[Son Deureo!]

[millsy99]

Oh no!!!

ET TU, KRAMER?!?!?