Should BGOL ban the N word?

Should BGOL ban the N word?

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GAMETHEORY

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POLL: Should BGOL ban the N word?

Personally As a black man,and a brother to my sisters I find the word highly incendiary and deeply offensive and since we all know that the is synonymous with lynchings and hangings, murders and rapes, the savaging of generations and the continued vicious divisions that lash our society.

When a white guy says it to me it's because he despises me. Whenever a black guy uses it with a flippancy that denies its potent force - it's because he despises himself. For that reason i believe in 2007 we as people have a chance to set a trend that other black owned forums will follow and that will make BGOL stand out from the rest



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water

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Everyone here know where I stand already.

If we can't make changes within our own "home" then we can't expect society to make the changes we seek.

If we lack the self-discipline to at least try it then let me off at the next stop........



:cool::cool::cool:
 

FatboySimms

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Why should it be "banned" thats HNIC telling us we cant say it
Now if we agree to stop saying it is one thing
but not Ban ne serious
 

BS2011

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I'd be curious to see how the dynamic of the board changes with a temp ban. I bet it cuts the e-thuggery and bullshit in half.
 

DreDee

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I don't give a shit either way becuase I don't use the word but I feel If you don't like the word just don't use it, you can't go around forcing people to not say what they want reguardless.





Still voted "No" though. :hmm:
 

Leeeeeee

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Why should it be "banned" thats HNIC telling us we cant say it
Now if we agree to stop saying it is one thing
but not Ban ne serious

Free Men of BGOL, UNITE against Tyranny wherever you find. Fight these Gestapo tactics designed to take away your freedoms, a little at a time.

First it's ******, then it's bitch and before you know it a typical response will sound like, "Gentlemen, doesn't that nice young African American female have a wonderful looking vagina. And her gluteus maximus is to die for. How I would love to have intercourse with her."
 

DreDee

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Free Men of BGOL, UNITE against Tyranny wherever you find. Fight these Gestapo tactics designed to take away your freedoms, a little at a time.

First it's ******, then it's bitch and before you know it a typical response will sound like, "Gentlemen, doesn't that nice young African American female have a wonderful looking vagina. And her gluteus maximus is to die for. How I would love to have intercourse with her."



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the public interest is more important than private interest, :hmm:

co-sign
 

King of Pain

Potential Star
BGOL Investor
Yes after you ban all of the words associated with self esteem issues in the black community; poverty,unemployment, etc....
 

kain

Professional Bastard Bum
Platinum Member
I made my position clear on how I stand on this word.

I want to address bigger issues that affect our community.

I disagree with the ban of this word.
 

water

Transparent, tasteless, odorless
OG Investor
I made my position clear on how I stand on this word.

I want to address bigger issues that affect our community.

I disagree with the ban of this word.


I dare you to create a thread attempting to address one, only one of those bigger issues and see how many people contribute..............


Some posters here revel in ignorance, they wear it as a badge of honor.....

Then when something fucked up like the Sean Taylor situation arises, they throw scorn.



:smh::smh::smh:
 

water

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OG Investor
May 18, 2006

What's in a Word: Howard Beach Hate Crime Trial






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A jury was selected for the trial of Nicholas Minucci, who was charged with a bias attack after beating a black man in Howard Beach last June. The jury includes four whites, four blacks, three Hispanics, and one Asian, but more interesting is how the jury was selected and how the defense seems to be approaching the trial. Prosecutors charged Minucci with a hate crime because he said, "What up n-----" during his attack on Glenn Moore (Moore suffered a fractured skull from the beating administered by Minucci and his friends in the middle of the night). The NY Times says Minucci's defense "is expected to suggest that a young man growing up in a mixed neighborhood in New York City uses 'the N word' as a matter of course and that the word no longer carries the racially charged overtones it has historically." The defense asked potential jurors if they were offended by the "n word" while prosecutors asked the jury pool if they listened to rap music.


Minucci's mother Maria said the trial was a way for the Queens DA to get publicity and said of the word of the day, "Every kid in the neighborhood uses it. It doesn't mean the same thing anymore. They all say it all day long, no matter what race.



They all grow up saying it now... All of Nick's friends — black, white, Spanish, Chinese — they all use the word.



You should hear when they talk on the phone to him in jail. "
Minucci, who has been described as having a "blingy" lifestyle, was a no-show during Tuesday's jury proceedings - he refused to leave solitary confinement in his Rockland County jail. And after the attack, it was revealed that Minucci had beaten a Sikh man after September 11, saying, "F---ing Arab! Why don't blow this up!"


http://gothamist.com/2006/05/18/whats_in_a_word.php




Why does the African American male fight to degrade himself in front of the world?????



You will sow what you reap..............
 

water

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Patent Offense: Wayans's Hip-Hop Line
Officials Reject Actor's Bid To Trademark Racial Slur


[SIZE=-1]Wednesday, March 15, 2006; C01

[/SIZE]It appears that Homey D. Clown still has a few tricks up his sleeve. You remember Homey -- the nutty street clown on the comedy show "In Living Color" who kept kiddies at birthday parties in line by whomping them over the head with a heavy sock and saying, "Homey don't play that."
The character disappeared when the show's run ended in 1994, but the guy who portrayed him, Damon Wayans, is still around. He recently starred in the now-canceled ABC sitcom "My Wife and Kids" and is trying to launch a hip-hop clothing line -- with a trademark that rapper Jay-Z famously rhymed with "Jigga."


But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office don't play that. Its blunt rejection of Wayans -- twice so far -- amounts to its own sock over the head.



Officials won't comment on their decision, but trademark attorney Paul Fleischut of St. Louis says the dismissal is a no-brainer.


"There is an act by Congress that says you cannot register a word that is scandalous or that disparages a particular group," says Fleischut.



Wayans's New York lawyers are pressing his case, but, says Fleischut, "It doesn't look good."





And it turns out that Wayans's idea isn't all that original.



The files at the patent and trademark office are littered with the remains of "dead" applications seeking exclusive rights to one or another version of the N-word.


In 1995, Marc Anthony Fitzgerald and Fred Harris of Houston sought to trademark the words "Naturally Intelligent God Gifted Africans" and turn it into a peculiar acronym.






Four years later, Scapheld Productions in Cincinnati sought to trademark "Rilniga -- any individual true to his actions and or statements."





The next year, Damon James of Houston put "Field" in front of the word and tried to trademark it.






In 2001, Wayde Jeffery Davis of New Orleans tried to trademark a 78-word rant that ended with the N-word, so that he could stick it on a T-shirt.





When 2003 rolled around, Keon Rhodan of Charleston, S.C., gave it a try, seeking exactly what Wayans asked for, except that Rhodan added the word clothing on the end.





Wayans, whose application was submitted early last year, could argue that the word he hopes to trademark, "Nigga," is different, says Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California and author of the book "The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop."





"I don't think it's the same thing," Boyd says. "Hip-hop has redefined the word. It can mean a number of things. It can be a term of admiration. It can be a term of recognition."





Earlier this month, for example, a mostly white jury in Boulder, Colo., cleared a man of ethnic intimidation for using the N-word during a fight in which he broke a black man's jaw, but some younger jurors didn't think the word was offensive because it's so conversational in hip-hop culture.







Yet, Boyd adds, the word may be conversational in hip-hop, but that doesn't mean it's been stripped of all its controversy.





"I've had this conversation with my students a lot," he says. "But I tell them that . . . not everyone is going to be as open-minded as myself."





NiaOnline, an African American-focused Web site, recently conducted an unscientific poll about Wayans's efforts.



In the poll, 84 percent of respondents say there's "no way" that Wayans should be allowed to own rights to the word.



Ten percent say, "Why not," and the remainder say, "I don't know."





"I would hope it would be used in an instructive way," says Sheryl Huggins, Nia's editor in chief. "Until we know how he wants to use it, the jury's out."
Wayans's attorney, William H. Cox, did not respond to multiple inquiries left on his voice mail in New York.



But his client's intentions are clearly spelled out in the application.



Wayans wants a retail store "featuring clothing, books, music and general merchandise." He would go global, marketing his wares online. There would be drama, comedy, animation -- the Gap meets Comedy Central, all under the N-word.





Several civil rights organizations declined to comment on Wayans's effort.


"We are going to focus on more important issues," says NAACP spokesman John White. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the National Urban League aren't bothering to comment either.


"I'm not sure who would talk about that," says Urban League spokesman Ricky Clemons.


The NAACP, at least, was more aggressive three years ago, when David T. Chang, an Asian American, created the board game "Ghettopoly," which he says was inspired by rap lyrics.








The organization picketed Urban Outfitters, one of the stores that sold it, and complained that the game depicted African Americans, Latinos and Jews in stereotype as pimps, prostitutes, crack addicts and money-gouging businessmen.





Urban Outfitters got rid of the game, and Chang was forced to sell only online.



Deluged by threatening calls and negative e-mail, Chang unplugged his phone, pleading, in the end, "I'm not a racist person."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031401960.html





Good luck African Americans....................:smh::smh::smh:
 

Prince of the South

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BGOL Investor
Nah...i wouldnt censor shit...i could see if this was some kids board or the majority was white...some times niggas be acting like al sharpton and shit. If you don't hear the word here,I'm sure you hear it everyday in music or just out with your niggas or some'n..lol.
 

water

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OG Investor
Nah...i wouldnt censor shit...i could see if this was some kids board or the majority was white...some times niggas be acting like al sharpton and shit. If you don't hear the word here,I'm sure you hear it everyday in music or just out with your niggas or some'n..lol.



Well if that is your logic then homo pics should be allowed cause I see that in society everyday also..........



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Complex

Internet Superstar
BGOL Investor
I voted yes :yes:

I'm still waiting for a good reason why we should use that word? Maybe we should start wearing nooses instead of chains to take away there power :hmm:
 

Leeeeeee

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I voted yes :yes:

I'm still waiting for a good reason why we should use that word? Maybe we should start wearing nooses instead of chains to take away there power :hmm:

It's not about a reason to use or not use the word. It is about the Free Men of BGOL being free from Tyrants who would tell us what we can and can not say.

Next they will be telling us who we can and can't talk to; where we can and can not eat.....hmmmmm, kinda sounds like the same Tyrants they are fighting against.

P.S. Chavez allowed his people to vote on allowing him to run for President for life, for him to hand pick all municipal leaders, and other broad sweeping powers; the people said, "no".

Nobody loves a Tyrant.

BGOL militia, be ready, with your weapons of war to fight this hostile takover of our site by those who are so much smarter than us that they think they have the right to decide what is right for us and take away our porno if we disagree.

NO PORNO. NO PEACE.
 

water

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How about this:

If you write the word "nigga" on BGOL , it comes up as asterisks.


We would know what you are saying but wouldn't have to see it.....

How's that???
 

Mo-Better

The R&B Master
OG Investor
How about this:

If you write the word "nigga" on BGOL , it comes up as asterisks.


We would know what you are saying but wouldn't have to see it.....

How's that???

There's no reason to compromise your stance, the word needs to be banned. We are the only race to willingly accept derogatory terms created by opressors.

I don't care how you say it, or spell it, there's nothing positive about it. All I know is if I feel the need to use the N-word someone is going to get hurt.

When did just being a brother become such a bad thing?
 

ClevelandDawg216

***TURBO CITY GLOBAL***
BGOL Investor
wow. what an epic battle for the advancement of black folk. such an important issue that warrants multiple threads created about it. :hmm:
 

water

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OG Investor
There's no reason to compromise your stance, the word needs to be banned. We are the only race to willingly accept derogatory terms created by opressors.

I don't care how you say it, or spell it, there's nothing positive about it. All I know is if I feel the need to use the N-word someone is going to get hurt.

When did just being a brother become such a bad thing?





The funny thing is that no one knows who is black or white on this site.

So somebody saying "fuck you nigga" could come from somebody white and it will be ok.

Soon BGOL will become a sanctuary for closet racist to spew their hate......... we already had instances in the past.



Then there are those who have a problem with "nigga" being used in online gaming but not on BGOL because the assumption is that we are all black???


For how long?
 

LennyNero1972

Sleeping Deity.
BGOL Investor
Say hell no to censorship. If you choose not to say it fine, I understand, but don't interfere with the next man's speech. This should be a free and open discussion and social board. If we ban the word nigga then what next? Quit being so scary.:angry::angry::angry::angry::angry::angry::angry::angry:
 

Gods_Debris

Rising Star
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Well if that is your logic then homo pics should be allowed cause I see that in society everyday also..........



:cool:

Interesting:hmm:... so you finally show your cards. I knew there was an "alternative" purpose to all these "ban the N-word" threads you seem to be continually posting, re-posting, and rehashing with the same end results everytime.:puke:
 

Rudey

Rising Star
BGOL Investor
Enforcing etiquette on a porn board is laughable.

SHIT,I guess even the devil himself probably has rules.
 

Otis Supreme

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Free Men of BGOL, UNITE against Tyranny wherever you find. Fight these Gestapo tactics designed to take away your freedoms, a little at a time.

First it's ******, then it's bitch and before you know it a typical response will sound like, "Gentlemen, doesn't that nice young African American female have a wonderful looking vagina. And her gluteus maximus is to die for. How I would love to have intercourse with her."


:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
 
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