So kindly allow me to introduce a new word into the English lexicon: "inthinkable."
An inthinkable is a person for whom critical thinking is difficult if not impossible. That is at best. At worst, an inthinkable is a person capable of thought but who has willingly chosen to shirk the responsibility of engaging his mind.
Colonel Sanders used to say the word, “nigger”?
Why? Was he singing his favorite gangsta rap song?
In the 50s and before "nigger" was simply the way a southern accent rendered the word "Negro" which was the required word in the nawth. Around Birmingham the word was pronoounced "Nigra" but still spelled n-e-g-r-o. In the sixties southerners forced their mouths to pronounce "Knee Grow" but by then the semiannual required change of terminology had rendered knee grow offensive. After being required to use "black" and "African-American" then "Afro-American etc. etc. many southerners gave up and returned to the old pronunciation or refused to talk to or about the people they had been friends and colleagues with before. Now we have come to the ultimate restriction- anything at all that a Southern white non Progressive person says is offensive and racist.
If ‘people’ were REALLY concerned, they would NOT produce records, air the records on Radio & TV, make CDs(??) etc etc for ANYTHING with so called ‘damnable’ language or phrases in it.
THEN sit back and stock up on popcorn.
Remember when NFL BANNED the N word on ANY of their properties etc (after a player claimed a ref supposedly used the N word on the field) and the Players Union jumped up and said it was just another chain on the Black players as THEY WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT DARE USE IT?
This all goes back to the days when your old man said he would “beat you till you cried” THEN “beat you for crying”.
An unwinnable ‘fight’.
Several years ago a couple of the young black Airmen with whom I worked asked me to recite lyrics to a rap song they had pulled up on a smart phone. Not only did I oblige, but when I came to the inevitable “nigger,” I enunciated it out loud in stilted tones. The reaction to hearing a white man say “nigger” was priceless. I thought they would die laughing. And no one was offended.
How a White Man says the N-Word to a Black Man | Laugh Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcBCy5SYEps
90 seconds
Oh, and it must've been really dark in the Schnatter's broom closet. How did John manage to work in there?
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