Oprah Winfrey: I don't like it cause it carries too much pain with it. Every guy who was ever lynched in Mississippi, and they were hanging, and they used that word.
Don Cheadle: And that's why I believe that we're going to even take this word that you've used as a weapon against us, and we're going to incorporate it so that it's not a weapon within our own culture, and use it to one another, so that it's not harmful to one another. We're taking the teeth out of that word...
But in all actuality, the minute a non-black uses that term in a derogatory manner, the venom, vile, and evil behind that word is returned to its full negative power in an instant. So, the black person is immediately subjugated and will respond as one who has just been subjugated.
The power behind the "N" word will always be evil conquering good.
It's no different than a gay man saying, "fag / faggot / queer," to another gay man. It's okay between the two of us, but catch a straight guy using it in a derogatory manner, and there's trouble in River City.
And the same can be said for all of the other negatively-motivated terms that are used to infer one's superiority over another (Jew, Kike, Wop, Jap, Honky, Chink, Wetback, Nigger, Faggot, etc., etc., ect.).
Regardless of who is using it and it's intended use, once a weapon, always a weapon...
A gun can be used for good, but at the end of the day, it's still a weapon.
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