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'Burn a Koran Day' Pastors Let the N Word Flow

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elizajane8/31/2010 3:04:38 pm PDT

re: #16 squiems

no denying this guy is an islamophobic prick, but the “take home message” of this video is that racism is wrong, the “n word” is a demeaning word that shouldn’t be used by anyone (black or white), and that all double standards (especially treating people different based on the color of their skin) are wrong and contrary to christianity. The video lacks any kind of subtlety, but it isn’t racist.

Sorry, but no. It completely lacks any remote understanding of what history means to a group of people, what it is to be a minority, how oppressed groups can lay claim to insults as a way of defusing the word and reclaiming power (“queer”, for instance). It’s saying, “We don’t hate you now, so stop acting like spoiled babies.”

And frankly, I just fine it insulting (to black people, to my own intelligence) when white people make this big thing about how there is no racism any more except in the minds of blacks. Give me a break.