i had some powerful thoughts while working out...and now i'm too tired to accurately transcribe them onto my blog. boo.
the gist: today i heard both the n-word and the f-word. obvs: vile verbiage for black and gay.
seriously, why are we still at that point where it's ever even remotely necessary to use those specific words? i personally will never forgive (drama alert, i know, i'm just fired up peeps) whoopi goldberg for stating the dumbest theories on "owning" the n-word. and it's so weird because, usually, i'm hatin' on that damn elisabeth, but no...it's the whoopster. defending black people's use, and only black people's use, of the word as a means of redemption or freedom from it.
and for once, i agree with elisabeth (wow is that hard to say). YOU DON'T OWN THE WORD. all and everyone who chooses to use it is so wrong and ignorant. how can you not be?
it's completely reactive. it's not proactive. don't we all know better? of course you do. hot stove? don't touch it. pain will always be inflicted no matter what.
at this point in our lives, as adults, with our street-cred gained from living in the real world and simple education of history, ethics and, hell, even pop culture intake, such words are blissfully ignorant. it's a verbal binge. it's a hate hammock. pain in paradise. we live in a free, beautiful world that we purposely pollute with oral nonsense. just because. no reason...we just do. because some of us "can."
(except for me)
same goes for the f-word. people still throw that word around as a means of humor and i just.don't.get.it. especially guilty are the the gays. the "owners." gays of the world: STOP IT. for once, act and speak with an ounce of dignity. i wish i could record the way some of you speak and play it back to you. i feel as if you would be appalled, and by leagues - embarrassed. but maybe you wouldn't. and that is exactly the problem.
GROW UP.
to willingly and knowingly express yourself in such a belligerent manner...why would anyone care what the message is? and why should anyone take you seriously, about anything? it's like a violent protest. no one respects violence in an effort to raise awareness. the message, lost. the seriousness, lessened. and the messenger? a complete joke.
its bass ackwards. it's reactive.
it's stupid.
it's unnecessary.
GROW UP.
