[autumnraine]

It’s a power trip and don’t let anyone tell you different.

They can use a word that *we* cannot.

Complete. Power. Trip.

[yldstrk]

It’s the same as Polish jokes, Poles are the only ones that can tell them, or Catholic jokes, Catholics are the only ones that can tell them.............

[mrsmel]

Exactly. I just read an account of a black man attacking, stabbing, patrons at an Outback restaurant. He stabbed three people, including a pregnant waitress. He kept going up to people in the restaurant and trying to initiate conversation, saying things like “What’s up” or something. When the one man and his daughter responded wirh something like “excuse me.” because they were a bit taken aback, he attacked them with a knife and started yelling that no white man was going to call him a ni**er. No one was killed, but the man, his daughter, and the pregnant waitress were injured before he was apprehended.

Sounds like he was trying to gin up a “ghetto lottery” case against Outback. All he had to do, if he’d worked it right, was claim that someone, anyone, called him a ni**er.

Already in Britain, they put people in jail for less.

[mrsmel]

According to one account I just read, she used the word ni**er in reference to a black man who put a gun to her head in a bank in 1968 in order to rob her. She used the word in her deputation. I would say that’s an appropriate description of a black thug who would put a gun to my head..

[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s a power trip and don’t let anyone tell you different. They can use a word that *we* cannot. Complete. Power. Trip."

This is exactly my impression. A few years ago I was riding the bus and two black male teenagers kept calling each other the "n" word, in voices loud enough for me to easily hear. It was obvious to me that they were doing this partly to emphasize that THEY could say it, but I couldn't. I was tempted to tell them, "If that's what you call each other, who am I to disagree?"