ARE YOU OFFENDED?
05 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
How do you feel when someone outside your race/nationality say racial slurs? Why is it not a big deal when someone of the same race/nationality say the racial slur?
This topic came up Monday on the TV show “The View”, Whoopi Goldberg dropped the N**** bomb and when Barbara Walters repeated it in the same manner as Whoopi, Sherri Shepherd got angry. Her comment was when it’s said by a Caucasian person it feels different or feelings flair up in the inside. A racial slur is defined as offensive or insulting nickname used w/out self-control for a racial group. How should this be handled in schools among young people, in college, in the workplace, among society &/or our neighborhoods?
Examples of RACIAL SLURS from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs
Cracker (U.S.) poor Appalachian or poor Southerner, a white person.
Half-breed A derogatory term used to describe anyone who is mixed Native American.
Honky An offensive term for a white person.
Uncle Tom A pejorative for an American black person who is perceived as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures.
House Nigger / House negro A derogatory term for affluent or highly educated African-Americans. Derived from the fact that African slaves who worked in the homes of their masters gained their favor, and were able to advance socially by reporting suspicious slaves and or activity.
Jap a Japanese soldier or national, or anyone of Japanese descent.
Jigaboo a black person with stereotypical black features (e.g. dark skin, wide nose, and big lips
Nigger / nigga An American-English slur originally used to refer to black-skinned people, but developed a dual meaning in the late 20th century.
Redneck In the US, the term is offensive to many, and refers to Southern laborer-class whites.
Spade A black person, recorded since 1928 from the playing cards suit.
Spook A black person attested from the 1940s
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01 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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