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Originally posted by godfather545
I 100% agree with Bbs decison.
I am a 22 year old black man born in this contry and i am sickened by the outcry over Emilys removal.
The ease of how Emily used that word is scary. The vast majority of my friends are white and i have never been called n****** not even in jest. I have a feeling that emily is racist and uses this word a lot to describe blacks. If you are non-black ask yourself how many times you have used the word n******..Im guessing not many.
i belivee Emily words were ' urrgh u are pushing it out you n******'. This is cleary derogatory. its not the same as someone say whats up my n****** the YOU part of her sentence is the key. Where whats up my n****** is creating a sense of belonging and togetherness 'YOU' is clearly not.
The word n***** is definitly worse when said by a white person and that is the truth. It was a word created by whites during slavery to describe blacks so a non white using the word would definitly not upset me as much as a white person.
Being called a n***** is difficult to explain to a non-black person as i am sure being called a p*** is to a non asian. Coming from personal experience of a racist attack i recieved, it leaves you feeling INADEQUATE, SMALL, and WORTHLESS. it is genuinly the worst thing anyone could ever say to me
Nicky and Charly were only repeating Emily when the said the word. If i went to poliice after being racially assualted and repeated what was said to me would i then be arrested? of course not that would be ridiculous. If Charley said the word of her own accord then i am pretty sre she would be punished by big brother. The fact is Charley WAS deeply offended, she was still up at 3 in the morning talking about it. She said she wasnt but that was just to cover her true feelings.
So what do the majority of people protesting over BBs descision want? for n***** to become commonplace among non-whites? if i get called a n***** in the street and become upset will i see no justice because some idiot uses it in a rap song? This is a sad sad day and shows that RACISM IS STILL RIFE IN ENGLAND
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Charley used the word first, in the house.
The defence for Emily is that she was using the word in the context she presumed to be 'friendly', and it had
already been used by a black member of the house. Several days passed before Emily used the word, so she assumed that there was an equal standard. Big Brother set that standard when they let Charley go unpunished.
I appreciate your point of view, and can't even imagine the suffering you have endured at the hands of real racists, but it is 2007, there is a new context for the word ****** and it is spoken all over the country, and that context is around because black people have kept it around, just like Charley introduced it into the Big Brother house. So now, we all,
black and white face the prospect of being particularly considerate of how we use the word ******, and lets hope
we can all move forward to day when
none of us says it at all.