Reply #33: Ok... maybe not worse. Hard to know really, since I'm not

[lapfog_1]

African American, I don't know how bad the N word is to them. I know that we've censored it (the N word) our of existence in politically correct speech, but I also see black comedians and HipHop artists call each other the N-word (ok, with an "a" on the end instead of the spanish "er") all the freakin time. I accept that it's offensive enough that I would never, even when blindingly drunk or angry, use it. That's because it's not a word that I even think.

I believe that it would be even worse would be for a white person to call a black man "boy". But like I said, I'm not black so I don't know. Both are offensive. What I was called (since I know Hispanic culture very well) was very offensive. How does one rate the offensiveness of these things? I don't take much offense at either "whitey" (even though I'm not exactly white) or "cracker" (probably because I have no idea what it means or why it should be offensive - and I eat crackers occasionally... really, nobody has ever explained why that is a racial epitaph aimed at white guys.

Anyway, I shouldn't have said worse.