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Originally Posted by scubadiver626
They use the word to take its power away. Whites use the word redneck in a similar way, but its meaning doesn't run so deep.
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I'm wondering what the word even means anymore?
It hasn't been used by a slave owner to a slave since the 1860's.
It was used pretty commonly up until the late 1960's during segregation in a derogatory way.
But since the 1970's (Richard Pryor) it has been used almost exclusively by blacks. That's 40 years.
How much longer will we have to wait for a word to lose it's "power" when it already has no power for white people to use it?
I think that's what bothers a lot of non-blacks (white, asian, jewish, hispanic)...it seems like no matter how many decades go by, the "problem" is never solved.
I guess multi-millionaires like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, etc. would see their cash flow and power end if this shit were allowed to stop.
None of those guys were born millionaires. And none of them ever had "real" jobs.
But somehow, magically...through the horrors of "racism"...they have lived the kind of lives that the poor kids in Chicago will NEVER know.