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Originally Posted by mercedesjin
People of African descent, however...
We've essentially been destroyed. I'm not trying to play the "who was more of a victim?" game. It's just a fact.
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You act like black people, or of African descent (which no longer makes sense since I met a white African the other day), were the only race ever enslaved. There are still slaves of all races to this day. And unless you are still a slave, you have the same opportunities as I do in America and thanks to "Affirmative Action" in some cases better than others. So how have you been destroyed?
Again, we all make our own opportunities.
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Originally Posted by mercedesjin
"Nigger" just tends to heave up a hell of a lot more painful history that other ethnic slurs, simply because black people have had more of a painful history than other races.
I think that the Black Power Movement may have made that clear, and so that's usually why - for people who find the word offensive, anyway - people tend to have such a violent reaction.
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I don't think their history is more painful than others, they just choose to keep reminding everyone of it. Why is it OK for a black person to use the "N" word but if a white does it they are a racist? It would be better if we just left the history in the past and
everyone quit playing the victim game and quit using all racial slurs.