White People Can’t Say Nigger – part 2

Hey neighbor, I knew it was gonna happen sooner or later.  A little over a year ago I writ on eBlogger about this very thing. (http://justanogeezer.blogspot.com – 8/18/10)  Well it’s back.  White folks still can’t use the word “nigger” in America.  Now I ain’t talkin’ about using that word in any kinda mean sorta way.  I’m talkin’ about just using the word period!

Yesterday, Herman Cain and some others, once again, made a big deal outa the use of that word.  Don’t get me wrong friend.  I think Mr. Cain has been one straight talker on a whole slew of political stuff.  He’s been straight-up on taxes, debt, big government and such.  But I ain’t sure why he’d go messin’ with this issue.  Looks to me like he went hook line and sinker for that liberal bullshit.  

I don’t particularly cotton to Rick Perry or the hat he’s wearin’, but this here is just another bunch of bull made up by the media.  It’s just amazin’ to me that the media would stoop this low to create “news.”  Reckon it don’t matter that it ain’t Perry’s spread.  He’s just leasin’ the place for huntin’ just like his Pappy did.  And his father painted over that name 30 odd years ago when Ricky was still a youngun.  So now, the fools that runs the “news” shows play “the race card.”  Sure ‘nough, that’s one way to kill a political opponent now ain’t it?  And that’s cause white people can’t use the word nigger.

In the black community, nigger gets used a whole bunch.  And it ain’t in a nice way either.  Black comedians use that word almost as much as they use the F-word.  And you probably don’t remember, but Niggerhead used to be a pretty good chew.  The word gets lots a use in other parts of the world too.  In England, nigger means people from India and Asia as well as from Africa. Nigger Head is the name of an island off the north side of Australia.  Nigger is the right pronunciation of the French word “nègre.”  Lots of English-speakin’ folks all over the world still call Brazil nuts “niggertoes” and without any kind “racial slur” intended.  Up there in Canada, they once had a Niggertoe Mountain.  At least it were till they got one of them politically and socially acceptable names back in ‘66.  Yet, white folks can’t say nigger in the good old US of A (and in them parts of Canada that don’t speak French).

So if me and all my neighbors can’t use the word nigger, you damn well better NEVER use words like whitey, whiteboy, cracker, honkey, whitetrash and the like!  Well, that’s what I think, even if I am…

Justan O. Geezer

White people can’t say nigger

Reckon that title makes me a racist, but I got somethin’ else to talk about first. There’s been a heap o’ noise lately about this Dr. Laura Schlessinger and her radio show. Didn’t know who she was till this flap. So I ain’t no fan of hers. And I do think she kind of went off the deep end there, if you know what I mean. But… if you read the whole conversation (at http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008120045), maybe she did have a point to make.

Why is it that some folks can use certain words in their everyday conversations, while other folks ain’t supposed to use the same words at all? Why is it Americans of Negro decent use the word nigger all the time, but if Americans who are white use it, they are labeled as racists? Heck, they could even be arrested and charged with a “hate crime.” So why is the word nigger banned, but other defamatory words like whitey, honky ‘n a bunch of other words ain’t banned? Is that equality?

Let’s face the ugly truth here folks: Everybody, black, white or green, has got prejudices. Like, I especially hate politicians tellin’ me bald-faced lies (and thinkin’ they’re getting’ away with it.). But I don’t hate folks just cause their skin looks different from mine. I’d pick cotton ‘long side any man (or woman). ...Though I’d probably get pretty riled up with some young whippersnapper who ain’t pickin’ his share.

That doctor lady done a damn poor job of it, but I do believe the point she was trying to make, was more akin to a saying my pappy used to have, “Weeds need hoed no matter what they look like.” If we’re supposed to be equal, how come we got different rules for different folks? We gotta get rid of all the weeds.

Oh yeah, I used that word that Dr. Laura and her black female caller used, so now I’m a racist. That got me to thinking ‘bout another thing that happened not long ago. This here fella, LeBron James (one hell of a basketball player) decided not to stay with his old team, the Cavaliers. The team owner, Dan Gilbert, threw a conniption over LeBron's “lack of loyalty to the fans.” Now even Ernie down at the Casey’s knows that Gilbert’s fit was really about losing his main draw at the gate. Now that poor millionaire will have to depend on income from his casinos. OK, but to continue this soap orpy, in steps the Rev. Jesse Jackson who made a statement saying Gilbert was “treating James like a runaway slave.” Nobody nailed Jackson to the cross for that one. Reckon only white folks can be racist.

But you know what? I really don’t give a plugged nickel, ‘cause I’m plumb tired of being called names myself. They don’t think I can hear ‘em, but I do. I ain’t deef yet. I hear ‘em call me an old hick. I am fed up to here with it. The next time one of them city folks calls me a hick, I’m going straight up there to the TV station and raise hell about the way I’m getting’ treated. I’m gonna demand I get respect, even if I am Justan O. Geezer.