Even though not all black Americans refer to themselves as the pejorative n-word, an alarming proportion of the Black community uses and/or supports use of the term. For instance, ministers invoke the word from their pulpits, and the NAACP, with the wink of the eye, looks the other way when prominent blacks publicly embrace the word. Many black college professors support their students’ use of the word. Minister Louis Farrakhan… Continue reading
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The Enigmatic N-word
Friday, August 20th, 2010Frederick Douglass’ 4th of July Speech: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Thursday, July 1st, 2010In Frederick Douglass’ July 5, 1852, Fourth of July speech, he told the audience:
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity… Continue reading
Boondocks Obsession with the N-word
Thursday, May 27th, 2010No American minority group has been caricatured as often and in as many ways as blacks. The entertainment media, from vaudeville to television, has portrayed blacks as happy-go-lucky idiots, dangerous thugs, and any definition of a n**ga one could fathom. The industry has degraded the black community for years, simply to make a buck, and always at the expense of the black community. Members of the entertainment industry defend their… Continue reading
Boondocks…Black America’s Shame
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Black America’s failure to hold Boondocks ACCOUNTABLE for its use of the n-word manifests an inability to rise from an 18th century enslaved mentality state of mind. If the producer of the show was white all of Black America would be up in arms over the use of the n-word and the fact that Aaron McGruder is BLACK should not give him the license to degrade and demean Black America… Continue reading
Wife of Slain Civil Rights Leader Speaks Out
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of slain prominent Mississippian civil rights leader Medgar Evers, speaks out against use of the n-word by all Americans, but especially Black Americans’ use, whose use of the word is the most disturbing and damaging in her perspective.
Why all the fuss over a word?, many will and do ask. Some Black Americans believe there are more important issues in the black community that one should… Continue reading
The Omens of an Orwellian Society
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Self-preservation, the primal instinct or natural desire to protect self and stay alive, is a universal, normal and natural phenomenon for all living organisms. In the event of a perceived threat, the life form settles into survival mode and begins to exhibit those behaviors that ensure the organism’s existence. However, human beings’ ability to self-protect is far superior to that of the basic organism’s “fight or flight” only option. Humans… Continue reading