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Now it’s time to say goodbye to “N” and all his friends…
(by Luigi Luciano - May 10, 2007)
I heard that there was going to be a funeral held soon. To me it was a funeral to say goodbye. Even one family member said "I am a member of his family and I am glad that he is dead."
In fact only one person cried at the funeral. With almost 300 people in the crowd almost no one even shed a tear except that one person. When it was time to pay respects most people just threw the flowers at the casket in anger.
You will never guess the name of the deceased. The following is quoted from a recent article in the Hartford Courant:
“The word "Nigge,” more commonly known as "Nigga.” The funeral was staged, but the emotions were real as people attending the NAACP's northeastern regional conference burial of the "N-word". It began with a casket, donated by the Henry L. Fuqua Funeral Service in Bloomfield, escorted down the aisle in the Hilton Hartford Hotel's grand ballroom by two rows of white-gloved pallbearers.
There was even an obituary for the word and it traced the hurtful origins. Of "Nigga” the obituary said:
"Born to Nigger, the most oppressive force in the civil rights era, he was already well acquainted with the African American community. Like his father, Nigga focused all of his energies in belittling and oppressing African Americans to a state similar to that of slavery.
"Infiltrating into black communities, Nigga managed to disguise himself as a friendly, comical reference. He introduced the world to his cousin Bitch and Hoe. Together the three have been a dynamic force in black culture including music, film and literature."
Now Detroit will be holding a funeral for the “N” word this summer.
Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the civil rights organization's Detroit branch, said members and supporters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will conduct services and a "eulogy" for the racial slur. The mock funeral will be held during the NAACP national convention July 7-12 in Detroit, he said.
"We are committed to ending hate — word and talk," Anthony said. "It doesn't do anyone any good, whether it's a journalist on TV or a rapper on the radio."
I find this comical. Here we have a group burying a word that their own people have used to make money off of for years.
The way I see it is the “N” word is one that I have not heard around my family for many many years. In fact my children never heard of the word and only got familiar with it because of the black artists used it in their rap songs and video. In fact the word was less and less used until it was brought into popular culture by the African Americans themselves.
Holding a mock funeral is so ridiculous.
People like Al Sharpton who condemn the use of the word have used it many times. Now he apologizes for using the “N” word but it was OK when he did it because no one was complaining.
Between him and Jessie Jackson besides being extortionists they are the most racist people I have ever seen.
They jump all over people like Imus (Who I am not a fan of at all) because of his nappy hair reference but do nothing about all the so called black artists that use the “N” word and many other words.
It is a disgrace that people like Sharpton are even given a forum to express their bias views.
With the announcement of these mock funerals I am planning a mock funeral of my own.
I am tired of being called a “Cracker” now know as the “C” word which means a poor (usually Southern) white. It is insulting to me and degrading to whites. In fact I am going to have a double funeral to include the “H” word formally know as Honky. The word Honky was adopted as a way to belittle whites by the 1967 black militants seeking a rebuttal for the term nigger.
Enough is enough in fact I am going to write Nabisco and I want the name of the Premium Crackers changed because I cannot stand to look at that word in print.
It is also insulting to me that we have the Black Entertainment Network (BET) but no white entertainment network. I don’t see why we have NAACP the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People but no NAAWP Association for the Advancement of White People.
Bill Cosby hits it on the head when he talks about the black community helping themselves. Cosby said in 2004 "It is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us, and it keeps a person frozen in their seat. It keeps you frozen in your hole that you are sitting in to point up and say, 'That's the reason why I am here.' We need to stop this," Cosby said in an address before Jesse Jackson's 33rd Annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago.
He even spoke about the accepted word "The more you invest in that child, the more you are not going to let some CD tell your child how to curse and how to say the word 'nigger.' This is an accepted word. You are so hip with 'nigger,' but you can't even spell it," an impassioned Cosby lamented
Whatever happened to 'Black is beautiful?' Well, it was replaced with 'nigger please,'" he said to laughter.
My point here is that yes there is discrimination and yes we have a long way to go. There is not just discrimination against the blacks it is against all races; Mexicans, Indians, and Whites.
It is important for us to try to be more tolerant of different races and beliefs but it should not always be assumed that because a white cop shoots a black man it is racial. I am sure there are arrests and shooting of white people by cops that are not white and are not turned into a spectacle like Al Sharpton does to advance his own cause and line his own pockets.
It is time that people of all races stop using the crutch of racism to advance their causes.
Take a look at what is wrong in your life and try to fix it instead of blaming someone else.
If burying a word makes you feel better than so be it. In my case they can call me all the names they want (and I have been called many). It really doesn’t bother me one bit. When someone calls me names I look at the person that is using those types of comments and pity them. I feel bad for them. The only person that controls your life is you, not someone who calls you a name. Look at what you need to do to better your life and make the changes. Don’t blame society for where you live or blame it on anyone else. If someone wants a better life they can have it - they just have to want to have it and work toward a goal.
It is easy for some one to blame others for all their problems when the fact is in the end there is no one to blame but themselves for the choices they made.
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