<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c1bfe6a-ae91-4ba1-b229-c14100cc7a08/ABE45F7D-AA62-4060-B93D-3FD4D4912BE9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/" href="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stereohyped.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/">as much as I personally disagree that time is slowly turning nigger into a word with a different meaning and that we as black people can “take it back” and turn it into something positive, I disagree even more with banning it. Even symbolically. Not only because this is America and we don’t <EM>do</EM> things like that here, but also because it’s totally ineffective</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/">It’s an old person’s solution to what is now a young person’s problem. Change starts with education. It starts at the home. It starts with rappers putting the pen to the paper when they write out their lyrics. It doesn’t start with symbolic bans and mock funerals. That stuff is a joke.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.stereohyped.com/img/A99D9A28-8374-40D6-BF82-C826A945645C" alt="nigger.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/">We have to realize that banning a word doesn’t ban racism. It shuts people’s mouths — some people’s, anyway — but it doesn’t change their thoughts. And we’re talking about a WORD here</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stereohyped.com/the-n-word/what-is-in-a-racial-slur-20071113/">Black Americans have a hell of a lot more to deal with than a <EM>word</EM>. Especially one that’s not even ours</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ABE45F7D-AA62-4060-B93D-3FD4D4912BE9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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