This is how even the most good intention, well meaning efforts to help black people can be twisted around to benefit white people.

Let's start with the basic premise of why did we originally ban the "N word" in polite society? I think the simple answer is to protect Black People.

And yet, here we are having an instance where a white person, more than likely if we had to guess, used the ban to threaten a black person's job. Even if we assume the complainer wasn't white, at the very least we know that the use of the word was used to threaten a black man's job.

If you take a step back and look at it, the rule being applied this way is so far from the original intent of such a rule. If we apply the original intent fairly, we would look at the context and speaker and say well this use isn't an issue because WM was telling a story and he himself is and older black person who knows damn well the history of the word.

But in our society applying the rule fairly means, well if white people aren't allowed to use it than neither should black people. What does it say that fairness means subverting the original intention of the rule and figuring out how to make it benefit white people.

Not to come at you personally but I am just becoming old an honery and feel like no matter what rules we pass ultimately if we don't change the power structure, the same people will benefit from the rules.

rant over.


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