On The N Word
As you recall from last week, Elizabitch Hasselbeck got very emotional during a debate with Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepard over the use of the controversial N word on The View.
Hasselbeck insisted that the word should not be used to describe anyone or be used by anyone. Whoopi took the position of many stating that only members of the black community are entitled to use the word.
Now steps in actor Taye Diggs, who has his own opinion about the situation and about Hasselbeck.
Diggs says Hasselbeck "doesn’t understand, and, no offense — I don’t think any white person has the right to tell a black person or to even weigh in on subject matter such as that. They don’t know what it’s like to be called that word; they don’t know what it’s like to be black.”
Diggs continued, “They can have an opinion, but… don’t take a word that you created and called me for many, many years, and then me being in my position, have the strength to change what it means in my own culture. Don’t try to take it back now. Now it’s ours. Leave it alone.”
What do U think?
Should everyone stop using that word? Or should it be allowed to be used by only some people?
[Image via WENN.]
If You Are Easily Offended…
Now This Is Just Ridiculous
Re: Mandy – You go Mandy!!!! I agree wholeheartedly!!!!
i agree with the majority of people on here.
I especially like the comment that if we don't have an opinion on what black people do, then get off the backs of women who want to have an abortion or gay people who want rights of their own.
but that is a completely different matter. black people need to stop segregating themselves and maybe they'll feel better about the life they live…n*gga
JUST STOP USING IT
I will say just this:
I have many gay friends who call each other "fag" or "fudgepacker" and I, being a heterosexual, have no desire to say either word despite hearing it constantly in television and film. That being said it is not my right or my position to tell ANY gay, lesbian or transgender person not to use said word whether I find them offensive or not.
The same applies across the board with any hotbutton words or statements reflecting themselves or their personally defined groups…. I personally believe it is grossly offensive to tell someone how to refer to themselves. I have friends and relatives who are overweight, the word "fat" is a constant in our society and I would never use the word regarding them or not, though I have often heard many of them use it.
What Diggs seems to be saying is that this is not White Americas issue to debate, opions can be had on both sides, but at the end of the day Black Americans are not stop going to say a word based on the desitres of white society.
Who the hell is Taye Diggs, give me a freaking break. He isn't doing anything else and his career is going no where the Z-lister should shut his pie hole. It's always all about the race card and the fact that black people can pull this card out and use it anytime they want, but white people or people of any other nationality can't do this and get away with it. Elizabeth had great and valid points if you can't see that then your just a retard and you need to go get back on the short bus and go back to school. Go to hell Taye!
Elisabeth was right