But she ain't messing with no broke wiggers

Don't know if anyone remembers the Ice T song N*****. We would all sing along with it.

It was playing in the car on a road trip for my basketball team said a blacknplayer said "any of you guys say it and you get kicked in the back"

That was good enough for me. I don't have the right to the word so dont get butthurt about not being able to say it.

 

Yeah, I should have perhaps clarified. I wouldn't be singing "Gold Digger" at a karaoke bar or in front of people who would get offended. Is that a form of hypocrisy? Sure. Do I care? Nope.

 

I grew up in southwest Atlanta, and everywhere I have lived since the third grade has a large number of black folks. That word very seldom passes my lips, song or not. I love "Gold Digger", but if I'm at a basketball game and the DJ plays it, I'm dropping that line. Call it caution, common sense, politeness, political correctness, or not wanting to offend people sitting nearby, but I'm not singing it.

 

Yeah ... I'm not partial to any music that would have that word, but even if I were ... I wouldn't use it. I say this as a white-headed white guy with about as thick a Southern accent as they come. I suppose it could be used innocently, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna test that hypothesis.

 

For those of you who don't interact with kids in the high school/college age, you'd be utterly amazed at how casual that word is. It's an insult, unless it isn't, and two kids of different races (neither black) will call each other it. There's a popular rapper named Rich Chigga -- well, he's a Chinese version of it, hence the name.

So for all the heat it draws in the microaggressions area, I don't know if it has ever been more prevalent in everyday culture.

 

Yeah, I know that. I've got black friends that I could use it with, at the right time and with the right delivery. The thing is that if you start to use it, the time might come that you use it unthinkingly - and that might be at exactly the wrong time and place, around the wrong person. This is one where I find that erring on the side of caution is both sensible and courteous.

 

Report says students will not face discipline, and rightfully so. Thank you to the powers that be at UNH for using a shred of common sense in this case.

If my daughter was expelled for something as innocent as this, with no intent or malice, I'd be pissed. Through the roof pissed.

 

I agree. I think it's going to cause even more problems down the road when these kids keep the filter off but aren't in the education cocoon.

 

A few years ago, now, I had to travel out to Asheville for a couple days for work. I noticed David Allan Coe was playing at The Grey Eagle the one night I was staying in town. I said what the hell, you only live once, and trudged down there.

Really fascinating experience, especially given the unexpected places life has taken me.

Anyway, the tangential connection to this thread was seeing the enthusiasm with which the crowd full of bikers, hillbillies, rednecks and other sundry WT enthusiastically filled in the lines of "If that ain't country" that even Coe drops these days.

I have still never told any of my colleagues where I disappeared to that night. Not sure I can.

 

David Allen Coe popped into my head when I was reading this thread, too. I'm glad you posted this.