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Originally posted by rhizome:
tenletters,
It's not so much the term being used to describe their physical characteristics that blacks objected to; rather it was its use by white folks AFTER they knew that blacks took offence to the term and then their attempts to justify its use based on its etymology when they easily could have chosen a term more appealing to the black population.
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I'll have to read back through my posts but I don't think I tried to justify calling anyone ******. I was only debating the words origin and the fact that I hated that the word has grown into more than just a description of a color.
I do agree your explanation of why the word is so taboo now. Lots of bad things have happened in the past but to simply talking about the word is not a basis to be offended.
Without discussion we are doomed to assumption.