Opinion: What bloggers are saying about...
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...John Ridley’s reconsideration of the N-word:
Because of my ancestry and the society we live in, I have been labeled and I haven’t any right to say what follows. Therefore I’m putting up links that can be read. These are stories about black society from a black man. THESE ARE IMPORTANT, THOUGHT OUT, & REFLECT SERIOUS PROBLEMS PLAGUING OUR SOCIETY. PLEASE READ HIS WORK!
John Ridley must be related to Ward Connerly.
Although I agree with him that the idea is ridiculous and shortsighted, I don’t like the way he is choosing to defend his position by taking through the easy road and attacking Jesse Jackson when he doesn’t have to do it to make his sensible point.
Words are just [gol-darn] words. They’re referents, metaphors, if you will, that indicate a particular concept, communicative slippage between sender and receiver notwithstanding. Intent is clutch.
I’m still waiting for somebody to point out why the hecklers shouldn’t get any compensation: because they clearly won the exchange with Michael Richards. No amount of offensiveness on Richards’ part could protect him from the devastating truthfulness of this succinct conclusion:
It’s not funny, that’s why you’re a reject. Never had no shows, never had no movies. Seinfeld, that’s it.