quote:Originally posted by Tired of Ignorance:
#I have never felt mad or pain over hearing someone call a white person the "c" word. Its immiture and wrong but I havent ever cried over it.
You know, you, perhaps unknowingly, raise an excellent point here. Why don't you feel pain or feel mad or cry over being called the "c" word? After all, it is a racial slur designed, by your own definition, to cause you to feel and do exactly that, right? Could it be because you have never been told you were supposed to feel mad, feel pain or cry over it? Perhaps it is simply that every time the "c" word is spoken, we do not highlight it or magnify it. I know by experience that to view yourself as a victim is unhealthy. Letting it go and forgiving is the only way to be free. They remain in bondage by choice. It's not even reality for them...it's in the mind. If SOME (not all - more than you think are embarrassed by people like JJ) black people would teach others to respond to the "n" word exactly as you respond to the "c" word, they would be free of this perpetual state of victimization that creates hatred between fellow Americans.