NAACP Burying the N word?Will this funeral truly diminish the usage of this atrocious word? What happened to the NAACP of the Civil Rights Era that fought for equality?
While I understand that the N word is often degrading and innapropriate, I cannot think of a greater waste of time than "burying it". Blacks face soooo many other issues like the ridiculously high rates of AA men in prison, or the alarming number of AA females with HIV/**** -just to name a few- that it's pretty puzzling that the NAACP of all organizations would choose to focus its efforts on this. If anything it made the organization look like a joke, especially because even BLACKS are saying this "funeral" is plain ridiculous, and to be honest I don't know whether the NAACP is lying to itself or the public when it says this funeral is actually going to make a difference.
i agree with you but ,then, part of me has to applaude the NAACP for actually trying to be a catalyst in change of something that needed to happen long ago. if we don't stop, or come to some type of resolution about the word, then we may be our own worst enemy in this fight. we have to, as a people, take a step back and try to find out why we use such a neg. word, as a term of "endearment' towards each other..
i agree with you but ,then, part of me has to applaude the NAACP for actually trying to be a catalyst in change of something that needed to happen long ago. if we don't stop, or come to some type of resolution about the word, then we may be our own worst enemy in this fight. we have to, as a people, take a step back and try to find out why we use such a neg. word, as a term of "endearment' towards each other..
I agree. But , please keep in mind that some could argue, why so soon. This whole discussion about the N word has been on the table for some time now. i do not feel like the NAACP has done a great job in the past about addressing this issue and trying to implement action - even if the action's consquence will only be adorned as symbolic. I believe that the NAACP was misguided about what sequence the issues should be addressed in. They are finally understanding the the "N WORD" debate is the pandora's box and the very significant beginning stage of addressing every african american social issue in this country. issues that we have with our government and other cultural groups (from the misappropriation of tax dollars in the united states to send OUR men to war, the [still] UNEQUAL quality and value education within primarily African American communties versus "white" communities,etc.) AS WELL AS the problems that we have within our own community ( the blatant disrespect of women on a DAILY basis, our black men going to war and or JAIL, black finances, unemployment, the overall disparity of wealth within our own community, our percsception of light skin vs dark skin) will all be on the road to a solution when we , as a people, decide to speak about this issue and embrace ourselves. only, then, will other people embrace us.
True, also other issues that need to be addressed are ****, mental health, **** in the communities, educating children of our history to understand where we came from, the family unit and revitalizing our communties.
It would be nice that other people will embrace us when we get our act together, but they will find other things to pick. It could be jealousy, greed , envy, malice, or anything else that are coming out of the hearts of ignorant or self-hating individuals who are mad at the world and look to pick on others.
Thanks for commenting, I wish others could talk about this.
I don't know. I've been kind of in the middle on this issue. One one hand, I do agree that there are other issues that the NAACP can take issue with, much more worthy issues. However, I'm guessing it is a symbolic act, to bury the N word. It may not help so much with our age/generation (21-30), but maybe for the younger generation, it would hold more credence. At least I'm assuming that's the idea. In order to change the views and ideas, you have to teach it to the babies. The older ones are pretty much a lost cause, which is why I say it probably won't make much difference for older folks, but for the young young people it may do some good.
Alright i think this is a waste of time .....do yall notice in general once something becomes prohibitted the more you see of it..i.e. ****, marijuana, which btw u can almost get it at every local corner in da city .....Lets be realistic...why does it matter...having a so called funeral for the word People are still going to use the word which defeats the purpose....so yall really think having a funeral is going to do something i thought NAACP was better than that.... newayz how bout we focus on something that we can actually aid and try to fix like hmmmmm struggling single mothers tryna put food on da table... or still suffering **** Katrina Victims....hmmm ever thought about that.....thats my lil 2 cents ....Deuces
