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Originally posted by Sleazy
Why is it OK for blacks to call whites a Cracker but if a white person calls a black person a ****** everyone jumps up and down? I am NOT a racist I just dont understand why its accepted
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Both are obviously disrespectful.
This is a question of history and of a new people trying to emerge as collectively powerful, despite having had their respective cultures cuisinarted. Black people who are the descendants of slaves have a tangled cultural lineage. This and historical racism leave a gap that makes racial identification stronger. Justice isn't the issue.
You can call a Kenyan a ******, and he may look at you like you called him a long necked polka-dotted sneezleberry- i.e., what the fuck is wrong with you? He could also be puzzled and alienated when American blacks call him brotha.
A weirder thing is that Jamaican blacks usually don't mesh with American black solidarity even though they have a slave history.
Clean integration says a lot about what's going on. In that respect, we failed here. Chain gangs, private prison labor, and the urban planning of two generations back shout ****** like nothing else.
That said, I'm not black, nor do I particularly care about American black people any more than I care anybody else. Every people in history has gotten raped, murdered, sacked and sold by somebody else. That's the cycle.
For a stronger taste of the same idea you're sensing, try living on Oahu for a few months.
Fuckin' haole.