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Folks are in the bed with this dude. They are tucked in TIGHT for the next few years assuming he doesn't get us blown up. Folks won't openly turn on him for something so small. That's right. At this point, the word is small to the public at large, isn't it?
This is where rap getting huge in the 90s hurt things. And now, the word is flying around so much now in music and tv (and online) that the average person of not color generally thinks 'wait...why can't we say it in front of them again? Don't they say it and write it all the time? That doesn't seem fair'.
And shiiid...there's fight wolks online using the word on the regular. Message boards. Facebook. Twitta. Online gaming. Folks will throw that word around with comfort because the concept of getting their ass whooped or killed over it is a dying if not dead one. If the average white teenager playing Call of Duty online had ANY fear that some actual real life NIGGERS were gonna wrap on their door and tap on their window panes, they wouldn't dare say that shit into a headset that could be tracked to their address. But nope...they have comfort.
For instance, I don't ever remember somebody calling a nigger at a Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition cabinet if I was able to beat them. I was standing right there. By law, I would have had to rake somebody upside the head. They knew that. So it didn't happen.
Now? Folks might damn near see him as a hero (even more) for breaking down the flimsy barrier related to using the word out in the open without fear. Hell, now I hope he doesn't say it and have to cop to it!
>(which, hrm I give him 50/50 chance of getting caught having >said so before the end of his term) > >Here’s the thing: no matter how overtly racist we notice >this motherfucker is, at the end of the day he’a still >margarine/splenda racist enough to pass America’s “We are >still good and fair people” test. > >When he still dances around the ring, Ryan can still say the >language was “unfortunate”, his base can still feel like >he’s “Telling it as it is” while feeling they are the >marginalized ones and arent racist because it doesnt exist >anymore. > >What would happen if he tips the point over to where your >mainstreet American can’t just use the discognative >dissonance that helped em deal with the post Jim Crow era? At >the end of the day bad shit happens because ultimately people >are able to reason with themselves they are good people. (ie, >that black guy DID look shifty, that middle eastern dude >lingered long enough at the buffet to plant a bomb, I play >COD, I know) > >If he went full David Duke, would America come to its senses?
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