TV's Frink said:
If I haven't, I'm done with you.
What is with all my crackers being done with one another here as of late!
African descent is a bad way to word it. I am of African descent, and I couldn't be more white. Personally, I think it is a shame it is used at all, but let's just spit it as it is. Under current social standards, it isn't okay to say it unless you are of the proper skin color, not of the proper continent.
Warbler said:
there are people out there that would react much more nastily than Frink to someone using racial slurs. Maybe racial slurs are more acceptable in whatever country you are from, but they are unacceptable and offensive to most Americans. Most don't use them, even as a joke.
Well, to be honest, in the context he was using them they are not really racial slurs, are they? In the past I have spent a lot of time overseas and working with foreingers from numerous countries, and I noticed a trend that many of them find the whole (insert politically correct term for the style of speech we are discussing here) thing really cool and humorous and like to mimic its style in much the same way we silly Americans like to try fake British, Scottish, Irish, and Austrailian accents (usually unable to distinguish one from the other). We can turn around and take a piss on them and point fingers for it, or we can realize that it is our own culture's (or, more specifically, a subculture of our culture's) fault and place the blame where it truely belongs.
And, as a matter of fact, many white people do use those words as jokes, even in the presence of "African Americans" and great fun is had by all. It is a really silly and awkward social standard, and absolutely deserves to be made fun of.
Of course, when the word is used in an offensive context, I will stand beside you and condemn the living hell out of the offender.
Until then, we should try to be more understanding of one another. (Damn, my friends are right, I do sound like a fucking hippie!)
