Black. White.

Love that show. It proves how much ignorance is in this world. last nights show did have me thinking a bit though. The show was mostly about how Nicks views on how the word "nigga" or "nigger" didnt effect him. he said it around his friends and told the white kids that he didnt care if they used it around him. to me it showed the lack of power that word has on today children. The lack of power? Is that a good thing or not? with biracial children, bi racial relationships, and multi cultural influences in todays world, can people finally be getting past race and color?
His parents didnt agree that it was okay. And yet in last weeks episode his own mother called him a "negro". the arguement .. its okay to say it to each other because they understand each others struggles but its not okay to have people of other races say it to you or around you because its disrespectful.
I began to think how other races treat each other and if they had the same type of controversial words that they use with in their groups but would not allow others to use the same words.
Personally, the word "rucca" is the most offensive word anyone can call me. it could simply mean "lady, woman, or girlfriend". As in "mi rucca" = "my lady" it can also mean bitch .. "my bitch" i hate the word. I dont care who uses it .. but more offensively if a hispanic man uses it. I always correct a person when they say it .. whether they mean it as "my bitch" or "my lady" because it could be taken as offensive. What makes it worse is, that as offensive as i find that word .. noone from any other race but my own would use it. Should i give up some slack simply because it is someone from my race using it. No i think that i should be harder on them because they are of my race and should not disrespect me in such a manner.
Other offensive words: Spic in the mexican culture .. Cracker in the white culture ... Sand nigger in the mid-eastern culture.. (i know mid-eastern is not a culture but you know what i mean)
its disrespectful to those people, that culture, and or race. Its disrespectful no matter who uses those words. I have yet to see a group of mexicans greet each other with "orale spic --como esta?" or " your my spic,, brother ... " or a group of white people "heyya cracker -- whats up?"
When mexicans show each other respect or hold each other close to there hearts .. they use hermano, "my brother" not just in blood relation but in a connection that cannot be broken. That is a sign of respect to them. Not Spic, not mojado, not wetback. But hermano. Mexicans would find those words disrespectful to them, their family, and their culture no matter who uses it and definately would not use it themselves or to each other.
If the african-american people find the word "nigger" "nigga" "negro" to be so disrespectful why is it acceptable to be used within or by other african americans groups.
I will never understand that....
but then i am one of the ignorant americans in today's society.