race question

[Scarlets]

Firtsly, I am a srict anit-racist, secondly this is a delicate subject, but I am confused. 90% of the time, if a white person uses a certain word beggining with n and enfing in r they are sacked / reprimanded, if an afro carribean person for instance uses it, nobody batters an eyelid. Why is this? Similarly, would I be frowned upon if I started an award ceremony called the MOWO's (Music of White Origin?)

[Oneeyedvic]

As I have said previously, the race relations laws are ludicrous and are too anti white. The reason black people can use the n word is that they seem to have taken it as a friendly insult - for example I caould go up to a friend and call him a w@nker - if I did it to a stranger they would probably hit me. Since white people have no soul or rhythm, MOWO's would not catch on ;-o

[Oneeyedvic]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question63268.html discussions also relates

[Oneeyedvic]

and why hasn't cruithinboy posted yet?

[cruthinboy]

Can't be a**** Oneeyedvic: too many cans of worms, not enough time.

[cruthinboy]

Oi, no soul or rhythm. Been to a Northern Soul all-niter Oneeyedvic? Spot the Black man! Re. use of language - I call myself part of the Aryan Master race all the time, but if a non-white did it, I'd be fuming (-;. Hope no Americans are reading this or I'll be banned under Anti-Irony Legislation ... as I've found to my cost on other forums.

[Shipstabber]

Spot the black man!? It's easy - they're singing on all the records! Apart from the one's sung by black women.

[cruthinboy]

Nice one **********! But what about Bobby Paris!

[WaldoMcFroog]

The n word was considered completely verbotten for many years until the mid-80s when it started to reappear as a fraternal term between rappers and hip hop artists, and from whence it became part of youth lanaguage. There's an interesting article about it here:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Downtown/DailyNews/downtown_n word_020410.html

Also, the NAACP (North American Association for the Advancement of Coloured People), one of the leading bodies associated with the civil rights movement condemns the word still.

MOBO was started because the mainstream awards ceremonies did not recognise achievement by black musicians, and in music which had black origins, such as hip hop. However, the awards are not restricted to black people. It would be pointless setting up MOWO since this is essentially what the BPI is already.

[cruthinboy]

how come C*****wh*** could call him/herself that but I got censored when I replied? Aha, is this illlustrative of Scarlets' original posting????

[Shipstabber]

No, it's just a loophole in AB's profanity filter. Although I am actually a "**********".

[Oneeyedvic]

Knew you couldn't resist.

[Dilkes]

I think racism is funny.

[Oneeyedvic]

Names such as N1gger should also be taken in context - the word ***1 ** verboten but why - Brit = British, Scot = Scottish, Afro = African, Ausi = Australian etc I know of someone who had to stop using Pak1 as an affectionate term to a coloured friend - he started calling him Stan instead ;-)

[sharp1]

the question shouldnt be 'why isnt there a MOWO'?, but "why is there a MOBO?' this is simply a matter of black people seeing the difference of there colour, as opposed to no black people, non black people trying to say everyone is a human, we are all under same umbrella, so we wont have a seperate awards, but someone felt the need for there special music to be given its own award ceremony. MOBO is just making black people look more different to non blacks. I mean lets have an award ceremony for every single race, the asian award ceremony, the chinese award ceremony!

[cruthinboy]

I think given that MOBO is the mainsteam now (hip-hop, "R&B") etc. - the MOBOs are a bit redundant. Just think the nightmares MOWO would hold in store though: Coldplay, Elbow, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, Starsailor ... yikes!

[Ouisch]

(by the way, the "N" in NAACP stands for National, not North American)

[tomd]

At our place average weight straight white men are the only people you can tell jokes about without getting cautioned. I'd also get into all sorts of trouble if I opened a "Straight Bar".

[mike1222]

Certainly in the UK, with all this idiotic Political Correctness and Racial Awareness, the one person who is not as equal as everyone else is the white, British, heterosexual male. Even in the Police Service there exsists a Black Police Association and probably a Gay Police Association (not sure about that one, but in all probability it does!). You can bet your life that if a white heterosexual officer tried to start a White Police Association or a Heterosexual Police Association he (or she!) would be sacked. I've no connection with the Police - this is just an observation and the tenet would probably apply throughout Britain in all walks of life.

[Laura-sakura]

There is a new film out called White chicks where too black men pretend to be white women. Just imagine the outrage if that were the other way around....

[el duerino]

yes the whole thing is a bit of a joke. personally I think its time people started to take a stand ie. saying no to minority pressure groups. get a ******* grip and get on with it. there are so many cases of reverse discrimination that my hypocrisy meter just went off the chart.