Chris Rock ~ When Can White People Say The "N" Word

If you have seen the the new Chris Rock special on HBO you know what I am referring to. If you haven't seen it he tells the tale that it is only okay when the are singing along to a song where the artist is using it or on Christmas Eve bewtween 4:30 - 4:59am if you get muggged at a Toys R Us going in to get your kid a toy and the mugger pisses on you.

Granted, I find Chris Rock to be VERY funny but I also find this topic to be very ironic as I am Irish. Many people may think what does you being Irish have anything to do with the "N" word.

Irish and Africans Americans had lots in common and lots of contact during this period; they lived side by side and shared work spaces. In the early years of immigration the poor Irish and blacks were thrown together, very much part of the same class competing for the same jobs. In the census of 1850, the term mulatto appears for the first time due primarily to inter-marriage between Irish and African Americans. The Irish were often referred to as "Negroes turned inside out and Negroes as smoked Irish." A famous quip of the time attributed to a black man went something like this: "My master is a great tyrant, he treats me like a common Irishman." Free blacks and Irish were viewed by the Nativists as related, somehow similar, performing the same tasks in society. And you must know that many people would chose the black person over the Irish person.

So this leads me to another part of my post. If it is so bad to say the "N" word, than is it horrible to call someone of Irish hertiage a mick? If so, than when do the Irish get their funeral to bury that word? Yes, the NAACP actually had a public burial for the "N" word.

So is it okay for me to ask for moneyfrom the United States government because my ancestors were treated like blacks? And if they were treated like blacks, than wouldn't that entitle me to some money, since some blacks continue to ask the government for money for the way their ancestors were treated.

The entire point of this post is that everyone needs to stop focusing what happened in the past and move towards the future. If Chris Rock thinks that white people shouldn't use the "N" word, than hoenstly, I don't think that another person of African descent should use it either, in any form.

Is that racist, hoenstly, I don't think so. I think it is treating it as it should be. If you want to bury that word, than bury it for all.