Michael Richards rant

[holly]

Is that bowling alley near 85 off Piedmont really 24 hours? Let's start a goddammed league!

We'll be TEH BR00TAL ROLLERS

Anyone???

I'm in.

[BlazeTSU]

Calm down, Sir Blaze. No hard feelin's man. I'm not saying you're being a tough guy, I'm saying people thinkin' droppin' the N-bomb is a cool thing to do. I'm not naming names of people I'm referring to.

On a side note, you're a real life tough guy. You could crush my melon with your mighty, and thunderous, biceps of steel.

All I'm cryin' about is that droppin' the N-bomb ain't a fucking cool thing to do. Now if peeps wanna bash on Swedes, that's cool. I could cry all day about Christianity ruining all things Viking, but I ain't trippin'.

I can't relate to a group of minorities, because I don't know what it's like.

We're all minorities as metal heads.

Fuck it, dude, let's go bowling.

its all good.......all in the name of a good thread. like i've said before, i got a brother and we fight all the time.....and as soon as its over we go drink a beer and laugh about it. i still love you and everyone else here....i don't know how to hold grudges.

and yeah, lets go bowling........and then lets go drink a beer and then lets go play some loud ass metal.

[Vince]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THESE:

http://www.break.com/index/kkkramer_rac ... remix.html

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/11/seinfeld-recut.html

[stalindrummer]

HAHAHA That second one is perfect! "Go and take the monkeys side!"

[braindrag]

I'd like to know why a word so widely, WIDELY used among blacks (possibly more often than 'the' or 'a' in some cases) is considered practically fucking unspeakable when used by anyone else.

You cannot claim a string of letters as your personal slogan and then cry foul or racist or hateful or bigot or discriminator or supremacist when it gets used elsewhere. Surprise! That makes you the discriminator.

I think you're completely missing the point.

First of all, the word is not just "a string of letters," as you so casually put it. It's an extremely loaded word that connotates memories of every foul bit of racism in America from segregation and Jim Crow all the way back to slavery. When a white man calls a black man 'nigger,' he is not only reminding him of that legacy, but also re-affirming it.

Second, somewhere along the way, black people started using the word themselves to refer to an ignorant person. This has been going on for a long, long time, but it has recently become most visible in hip-hop culture. The same culture has been co-opted by suburban white kids all over the world who imitate black culture. These people view being black as being fashionable. So, just like the rappers they listen to, white kids started saying 'nigga,' without thinking of its implications.

Third, you're obviously not black, and NEITHER AM I. So how the FUCK do we even have a right to debate the use of this word?

Language is not only a form of communication it is a science. That science is called Linguistics. Even a lot of these people's conservative hero, Newt Gingrich wrote a book and many papers on the subject. I appreciate your informed commentary, Vince.

[Death2all]

I'd like to know why a word so widely, WIDELY used among blacks (possibly more often than 'the' or 'a' in some cases) is considered practically fucking unspeakable when used by anyone else.

You cannot claim a string of letters as your personal slogan and then cry foul or racist or hateful or bigot or discriminator or supremacist when it gets used elsewhere. Surprise! That makes you the discriminator.

I think you're completely missing the point.

First of all, the word is not just "a string of letters," as you so casually put it. It's an extremely loaded word that connotates memories of every foul bit of racism in America from segregation and Jim Crow all the way back to slavery. When a white man calls a black man 'nigger,' he is not only reminding him of that legacy, but also re-affirming it.

Second, somewhere along the way, black people started using the word themselves to refer to an ignorant person. This has been going on for a long, long time, but it has recently become most visible in hip-hop culture. The same culture has been co-opted by suburban white kids all over the world who imitate black culture. These people view being black as being fashionable. So, just like the rappers they listen to, white kids started saying 'nigga,' without thinking of its implications.

Third, you're obviously not black, and NEITHER AM I. So how the FUCK do we even have a right to debate the use of this word?

Language is not only a form of communication it is a science. That science is called Linguistics. Even a lot of these people's conservative hero, Newt Gingrich wrote a book and many papers on the subject. I appreciate your informed commentary, Vince.

or how about he master Linguistics Avram Noam Chomsky

[Animal]

Maybe he and Mel Gibson should do a movie together.

[Death2all]