{"id":1867,"date":"2007-11-07T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2007-11-07T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T13:06:27","slug":"the-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"The N word"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I lived in the little town in which I grew up, I was surrounded by folks who threw the N word around pretty regularly. <\/p>\n

Until I was, say, nine, my parents were the only people I knew who didn’t, in fact. <\/p>\n

I got so used to hearing it that I started tossing it around myself. <\/p>\n

Until dad heard me. <\/p>\n

Usually I got an asswhipping for fucking up, but this time hr reached across the kitchen table and slapped me upside the head, hard. <\/em>Tears streamed down my face from the sheer pain- dad had a handshake that would break bones, so his hand was hard and strong. Mom said “He doesn’t understand, don’t be like that” but dad said “that’s no excuse, we raised him better”<\/p>\n

Eventually, I did understand. I saw the way the ‘good old boy” network in my town worked, I saw the way my neighbors acted, I saw the racism and hatred<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There are a bucketload of people who are scum. Black, white, asian, mexican, whatever. Scum is scum. Using the N word is as unfair to the other scum as it is to black people it stereotypes.<\/p>\n

The Internet is a wonderful place. It allows you to be hateful and intolerant of people you never met, regardless of their race, color or creed. You don’t need the N word, it’s rude and distasteful to anyone with class. <\/p>\n

Keep this shit out of your vocabulary. Listening, Dog? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I lived in the little town in which I grew up, I was surrounded by folks who threw the N word around pretty regularly. Until I was, say, nine, my parents were the only people I knew who didn’t, in fact. I got so used to hearing it that I started tossing it around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}