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Talkin to some people I know and racism was brought up(protests). None admitted theyve said the N word. I called em a bunch of hypocrites. Who hasnt called brazil nuts nig toes? Licorice candies were nig babies. Hell we all sang eeny meeny miny moe....none of us caught a damn tiger by his toe, it was a nig! And every one of us at some point nig rigged something!! SOB now! Why people gotta lie like that??

We sure didn't grow up with wrist rockets, or slingshots...

eenie, meanie, minie, moe . . . yep I remember that one well. Never did get reprimanded for repeating that little diddie . . .

That's for damn sure! GrandDad carved me my first one when I was 5 years old & told me it was a Nigra Shooter.

Now the same terminology is used to describe a 9mm in Chicago...

The chocolate cream drop - LOVE THEM - Grandpa called them Nig titties...

My dad still calls Brazil nuts .......toes.
Only when it's me +him around of course,the left would lose their minds hearing it now,unless you're a rapper

Let me give you another "N" word and how it gets thrown about, and in doing so you can see how I view the other. Let me say up front that by forbidding its use throws a real monkey wrench in the process of healing, and it papers over history. I don't like the idea that it can't be used.

The other "N" word that comes to mind is Nazi. We all use it. We all think we know what it means. I'm 3rd Gen German American, and I've had it used on me, and my sons have been called it throughout their lives. Everyone thinks you can call a German a Nazi and it's somehow deserved. Y'all use it on each other all the time.

Yes, there were National Socialists. They even had a political party here in the States. I can even point out the old Bund Hall here on the north side of Cincinnati. However, it wasn't just Germans going to those meetings, and most Germans could not stand that crap. My family left everything behind to escape that garbage and come here to America.

What is offensive about it is that it is the modern variation of a whole string of epithets for non-Anglo Germanic folk that have been floating around since before the Founding. What is offensive about it on the receiving end, is that 300 years of German American history gets wiped out and replaced with a convenient meme that covers everything bad in the world.

At one point in our American history, Germans outnumbered Anglos in this country. 60% of Americans before 1900 or so were of German heritage and not Anglo. However, before the Civil War it was common for them not to be considered white. We got lumped in with Dutch, and Scandanavians, we were called "squareheads."

WWI changed everything. In order to go to war against the Kaiser, the Wilson administration had to drum up support. He instituted a propaganda effort of immense proportions, and in predominantly German town like Cincinnati, the Germanic influence was wiped out overnight. The German street names were changed. The German celebrations were banned.

I was researching for a novel a while back and was trying to find the origin of a "Turnwater" memorial in a local Cincinnati park. There was a dance pavilion, a reflecting pool and on the hill behind a magnificent memorial all grown over and forgotten with the name "Turnwater" on it. What I found out was that Turnwater, was actually "Turnvater" or "Father of the Turners," and the portrait on the monument was Frederich Jahn, their founder. I also found out that Inwood Park was built over a converted dump by and for the Turners, and the dance pavillion served as a reviewing stand for massive parades.

At one time, 10,000 Germans used to regularly parade up the steep Vine Street Hill past Inwood Park doing gymnastics all the way up the hill in honor of Jahn, The Father of Modern Gymnastics. He invented gymnastics, and even though we have them in our schools and even the Olympics, we've forgotten their founder. We were made to forget him, because he was German and in WWI that was bad. Believe me, I lived near Inwood Park for a decade. Vine Street Hill is a tough walk. I wouldn't want to be cartwheeling my way up it.

So why do I bring up Nazi's and Turners when I'm supposed to be commenting on THE BIG N WORD? My reason is this. Someone is trying to make us forget something. I don't know who it is. I don't know why. I just know there is something huge at the bottom of this. My advice to African Americans has been for a long time: stop this. Turn it around. You don't want to make them take away this word. It is a powerful word and by making folks stop saying it, they're making us stop thinking about it.

Every major city used to have Turners. There used to be big processions of German Americans in the streets. We were not trying to conquer the world. We were just trying to conquer our own bodies and celebrating what it meant to be human and alive. They made us stop, because we were German.

The "N" word is a scab that the mothers don't want us to pick at. Black mothers, white mothers-- they're all mothers and every time they catch us, they slap our hands. Meanwhile what is underneath is left to fester. I say screw 'em. I don't want African Americans to end up like the Germans country, deliberately forgotten.

I know. Y'all are going to say African Americans are over-represented in the media. No. Sure, there are black faces everywhere, but the story is not real. It is contrived. It is the same mechanism that made us forget real Germans and relegated us to the jackbooted thugs of History. They made us Sargent Schultz and Colonel Klink, and said that underneath we all dream of being Doctor Mengele. African Americans are getting that same treatment.

I do not have a politically correct bone in me. I call people as I see them. A druggie is called a druggie. White trash are called white trash. A n****r is called a n****r. A Black person is called a Black person. A kook is called a kook. Despite what out friends on the left would like to have us believe, we are not all alike. There is very big difference in people....culturally, ethnically, politically, morally, and so on and so forth. There is a faction in our country, the socialists, who would love to take away our heritage and leave us with nothing but what they want us to have.....allegiance to them. Look at the way they're doing away with any and all symbols of the Confederacy. There is absolutely nothing in a 150 year old statue or flag that's going to affect anyone today. Yet, they're considered offensive to some people, and must be removed. Well, a lot of things offend me, including some posters on here, but I don't asked that they be removed. I'll close by saying this, if it offends a n****r for me to call him one, then it offends me twice as much to see him wearing his pants hanging down below his ass. So, I'll make a deal with him....dress properly and act properly, and I'll respect you properly.

Always wondered what the NVA called me and my kind. Kinda feel left out ya know? Bar girls called me 'GI'. I took it as 'Grand Inspiration'. Was I wrong?

I always end it with an A instead of a ER.

That way I be down with the mo fo's.

To me a spade is a spade, I call like I see it PC be damned!

I avoid using the word. I am not sensitive at all, but try to respect that others are. I spent 20 years in the armed forces. I worked side by side with a lot of black people. Many of them very good people. I had frank discussions with them about that word and came to respect how it was offensive to them within certain contexts.

Flew with some misfits in 'Nam who used the call sign "Killer Spade". SOP for such was a numerical designation on the end which indicated whether you were rank and file or part of the hierarchy. "6" was the troop CO, and so forth. There was a black pilot that got into the spirit of affairs and called himself "Killer Spade" w/o numerical footnote. He were too.

And he could drink and sing with the best of us.

I never thought of calling any US germans nazis. My best friend was german, wealthy by hard work, an aggie and tight. I called him a dayom aggie german jew sometimes though.

God rest yer soul, Robert.

Young black people have endeared the N word and use it constantly , there is only a problem if white people use it. now tell me who are the racists ?

When you start talking letters of the alphabet used instead of the full ethnic/racial slurs, it pretty much covers the whole alphabet.

Being German doesn't make you a "Nazi" anymore than being black makes you a "N"....

It's what you are inside that bears those monikers.

Daughter in law is of Wendish descent on her dad's side of family. Now there is a minority for you! They are almost extinct back in Europe.

Rost495 knows what I'm talking about. The little Wendish community is right between us both over in southern Lee county at Serbin.