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The N-Word: Laura Schlessinger And Mel Gibson Distinguished . . .
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by Hargrove | August 13, 2010 at 02:38 am
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In the heat of an argument, Mel Gibson told his former girlfriend, "you look like a fucking pig in heat and if you get raped by a pack of niggers it will be your fault."
Laura Schlessinger, speaking to a *Diasporan woman who called her talk show, to complain about racial remarks made by the white friends of her white husband, in her presence. When asked for examples, the woman asked "How about the N-word? So, the N-word's been thrown around . . ." Schlessinger said, "black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger." And she didn't stop there, before she was done, she'd spewed the word nigger eleven times . . .
When Mel Gibson used the n-word, he spoke it privately, to a person who is not associated with the word's denigrating meaning, a person who was not likely to be hurt by it. Many people use the n-word in this way.
When Laura Schlessinger used the n-word, she spoke it publicly, to a person who is associated with the word's denigrating meaning, a person who reached out to her, a mental health professional, for support when she believed that she was being racially violated. Laura betrayed this woman's trust, by giving her more of the same. Racist behave like this because they don't identify with their victims. Cruel people behave like this, because they deflect their pain, by causing pain.
Fat women can congregate together and describe how fat they are and how disgusted they are at the sight of their bodies; but no thin person would enter the room to make the same comments.
Alcoholics can come together and describe what it means to be an alcoholic; but not one would enter that room as a teetotaler, presuming to tell alcoholics what a non-drinker thinks.
Wheelchair bound people can come together and talk a special language about their chairs, and the quality of life from their chairs; but a walking person would not presume to assume that knowledge and language.
Why then is it so hard for some people to understand that words of oppression, spoken by people who resemble the oppressor, should not be used toward, and around, the people who have been denigrated by that language for 400 years . . .
Racism provides a perfect canvass for the Schlessingers of the world to record their pain, since it insulates them from empathy for their victims, and it refines their insensitivity in meanness.
Laura Schlessinger is so alienated from her parents and sibling, that her mother was dead for two months before her body was found; and her father, according to her, is "petty, insensitive, mean, thoughtless, demeaning and downright unloving." Well at least she resembles her father.
*Diasporan: A descendant of a survivor of the African diaspora
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at 10:33 on August 13th, 2010
I just wonder what it's going to take to heal this culture to where it casts off it's own racism. These days the "minority" cultures breed far more racism than the "oppressors" are doing. I'm white but I don't make a culture of it. I make an effort to be kind and considerate and yet I run into severe racism far too often. Like walking down the street, I smile at a man or woman and recieve a stony face in return only to see that person smile at the next person behind me who is of the same racial phenotype. what's up with that? I'm making an effort, when do I get to shrug off this racist cloak of oppressor that not even my immigrant ancestors earned? My parents arrived here in 1959, what have I got to do with all this except I was born into the culture.
I've been seeing a backlash among whites who rebelliously use these denigrating words and laugh evilly at being so naughty. we're so very tired of being scolded over and over for something we don't do, mistreated and disrespected for someone else's sins, that some are beginning to tentatively take up the standard in pure rebellion.
So to all of you oppressed people, please, grow up now? We've done a lot for you and now you have to take a few steps forward.
Oh, and I'm sorry for the racist BS you still run into, but it wasn't me.
at 12:36 on August 13th, 2010
Anarkissed,
The beginning of healing is the truth. We have to honestly strive to know the nature of the beast, before we can slay him.
I have been guilty of the "stony face," for *Eurmericans, and the smile for **Diasporans, but not for the reason you think. It was not a rejection of one and a preference for another, it was the damage from years of oppression.
When I was a young woman, I would receive scowling, hateful looks from Eurmericans, that were so startling I would rush to look for a mirror to determine what disgusting, awful thing had attached itself to me, When I learned it was racial rejection, I put on emotional armor, and a set expression, to march straight through it. But every so often, a kind Eurmerican would offer something else, and I would be too frozen in my defenses to respond. Well, I worked through that, and now I look everyone in the eye with a kind receptivity. But it took work. You know the saying, once burned . . .
The "backlash among whites" isn't because more Diasporans are complaining, it's because more Diasporans contradict the myth of racial inferiority, by their wealth and achievements, damaging the false sense of racial superiority that is, for the racist, their most valued "identity." So when things begin to appear "equal," the racist pulls out name-calling, discrimination, abuse, and whatever they can think of to diminish the image of the Diasporan, in order to preserve the idea of racial superiority . . . This pattern is reflected in the manner our President is treated, from defiant words, to ignored achievements, to withholding his title.
So, instead of just calling for the "oppressed people (to) grow up," let's all grow up together! And that part about white people doing "a lot for (us)," remember, we are the ones who had every aspect of their lives diverted from our use, and applied to the benefit of white people. We are the people who worked for 400 years, without a pay check; and we are the people who for 100 years after that, we were denied the benefits and protections of American culture.
I don't say these things as an invitation to guilt, but you cannot move forward from a lie.
We should call a moratorium on censuring and punishing words and ideas, and we should open up an honest, constructive, dialogue about race. CNN has taken a baby step in beginning that process, that has been airing every evening, perhaps something can be done to get the rest of the media involved.
Trust me when I say, most Diasporans are not bitter. They just want it to stop.
*Eurmerican: An American of European descent.
**Diasporan: A descendant of a survivor of the African diaspora.