There's this guy (I'm cool with him) in our school, he's spanish (full dominican) and he gets offended whenever a person says or shouts nigger and he hears it .. first of all, why would he get offended? he ain't black, he's spanish ... maybe just cuz he thinks other ppl think of him as black cuz he looks black?? (in which he actually does) .. come on i wouldn't get offended when some dude call me chink thinking im chinese .. wen im korean. i don't get him. wat u guys think why? smfh

Dude.

The point of hearing someone call out a racist term in the matter can upset anyone. It may not upset you, but hey your different. Everyone is different.

And hes not spanish.
Spanish people are from spain.
Hes Hispanic.

Dominicans have black ancestory also. The rapper JR Writer is dominican.

yeah hispanic .. whatever. but i don't get why he still wood get offended by that, an insultive racial term to a race that aint even his kind ...

Still, it's a racist term.

Just because hes not a certain race doesn't mean he can't get offended.

I get offended if anyone says something racist, even if it isn't towards my race.

do you make topics like this to spite people? i swear you've made 342423 of these topics before. you still don't get it?

i have a cousin that is the same exact way but my cousin doesnt like any racial words he gets all offensive because hes spanish and when someone says "nigger" or "spic" or anything of the sort he immediately wants to take you out.


its pretty funny though i mess with him alot

QUOTE(Statistik @ Mar 6 2007, 8:55 PM)

yeah hispanic .. whatever. but i don't get why he still wood get offended by that, an insultive racial term to a race that aint even his kind ...

So? Just because he may not be black doesn't mean that he can't have some reaction to the term. How do you know that people in his family where never called that term? You obviously don't know much about him at all. And the fact that you are even asking this question is dumb. Just because someone isn't of the race that the term is being used as an insult to, doesn't mean they can't be affected.

What do i think? I think you should stop giving your school a bad rep by talking about racism there.

It is afterall a very offensive word. Whether he takes it to the heart or not, he could be offended that the person is using the term so lightly. Even if he is hispanic, that doesn't mean he has no reason for getting offended.

Because some people aren't stupid enough to think of themselves solely in terms of their own ethnicity, but instead dislike any and all racism.

If you think people ought to only be offended by racial slurs which affect them personally, you are incredibly narrow-minded and short-sighted.

Well the Dominican Republic and Haiti are on the same island. So its not unlikely that he may have black family members or some black in him somewhere down the line. I know a lot of Domincan people like that.

Some Dominican's are Hispanic though they're of black nature, thus they're black. I would know, I have lots of Dominican friends.

Dude join my f**king club.
The offcial HISPANIC club.
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=165286

You could learn alot about stuff like this in there.


ILY James.You sumed up everything I wanted to say to him

Diana, It's me Lucy... [/spam]

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...Seriously, please answer the question.

I'm trying to figure out who wouldn't be offened by it. I get offended myself about that word because it's something blacks fought so hard to overcome.

Since James already stated something that seems like it came directly from my own thoughts, I'll add this: It also offends me when black people say it to one another. I think that is one of the most ignorant things in the world. Their people were suppressed and tortured so that they would never be called that again and they sit there and call one another that. It really gets on my last nerve.

LUCY!!!

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Yeah the whole concept of black people calling eachother the n-word i always thought was as equaly insulting.Racial words are truely unacceptable regardlless if you yourself are that race.If that makes any sense..