[MollyMac]

Yeah, I know what ya mean. All generalizations tend to be irksome (**wonders if that is a generalisation in and of itself? How meta**). I know people tend to make them based on personal experience, but one's experience is not the only rule to sociology.

My rant:

How the fuck can Jessee Jackson be a proponent of equality when Michael Richards gets raked over the coals (by Jesse, no less) for use of the "N" word (rolls eyes, how childish is our society when we relegate a word we all know to the "N" word or "C" word or "F" word. We are not idiots, we know what the word is. And We say it in our heads when you pull that shit, Mr. Media. You gain nothing in this practice- why are you then still allowed BITCH and WHORE????) when Jesse himself said it of Obama's followers?

And he is not getting near the flack of Richards or Imus. His apology was immediately accepted. He did not need rehab to deal with the hatred he apparently holds for his own race. What the fuck?

Bear in mind, I don't care for the "N" word or the likes, my rant is this-
How can there be equality when there cannot even be a shared vocabulary? If a man cannot say bitch, but a woman can? If a black person can say the "N" word, but a person of another race can't...

I know that within a social group (racial, national, gender based etc..) that slurs are used in a familiar fashion without the baggage of a perceived majority using it as pejorative. All the same, I think it is hypocritical for Jesse tp be forgiven so easily when others were not.

Is it that the forgiveness of the offended party matters above that of the population?

I seriously don't know.

It all just pisses me off.