Double Standards?, what do you think Options

[katherinee]

Since my dad just took the control from me, i have to watch the news. haha Anyways, you all might have heard of DJ talk show host Don Imus saying that the Rutgers Girls basketball team are "Nappy Haired Hos".

So here's the issue: news casts like CNN, MSNBC are saying that what he said was wrong and out of line, but the certain words out there used by rappers is hypocrisy. Meaning, they say that society is influenced by the "hip-hop culture" to use the "N" word, Ho, and all other provacative language. Moreover, they also say that certain words that are accepted by African Americans creates double standards in society. Furthermore, words like Ho, also bring up an issue about the degrading of Women.

I think this is issue is deep, and i really want to hear what our generation has to say about it.
So what are your feelings about it?

[kimmytree]

I feel like there HAS to be a double standard. I know when blacks call each other the n word, they arent using to mean the same thing it used to. But still, even if they are joking, at one time it was a horrible word. I dont understand why its okay to use.

If black people can call each other that, then why cant I call my East German grandmother a Nazi? Not that I ever would, but she'd probably shoot me for it. Just like the N word, Nazi is just as offending, if not more so, because people who lived through those times are still alive. If its not appropriate for a German to call another German that, then how is it right for a black to call another black something like that? I remember way back when I was like 13, my sister lied and told my dad that I joking called her a Nazi. I didnt, but my dad literally beat the crap out of me for it. He was born and raised in Germany, so it's very offensive to him. Even though I never actually said it, it's taught me that you can't use words like that.

So what I'm trying to say is, a black person calling another black person a N shouldnt be any different than a white person calling them that. And not just with that word, but with any other racial/offensive slur. NO ONE should do it.