notes on a semi-scandal

Yesterday I logged onto my facebook account and one of my non-black friends had posted that she "is not going out with no broke n*gga." Okay, first off I was like maybe she heard it in a song somewhere and I just let it go. But the more I thought about it the more it started to bother me. I hate that word - I don't care who uses it. It just represents all things negative. There is so much history associated with that word, that I just don't like people slinging it around. So then I was going to get into my activist role and write her a friendly email about how that word might offend some people. I've done it before. I had anther non black friend on msn whose screen name was "if [it's] white it's all right, if its black take it back". I was like ummmm, that could be really offensive and he took it down and I was so proud of myself. Another racist comment foiled! ha! But back to yesterday, so I was going to say something but I started thinking about that word, and if the person who posted the comment was black, I probably would not have said anything. Ok, I would not have said anything. Its a sad double standard. But its letting your siblings call you a name - but let someone else...and its ON! It's not right but that's the way it is. Some things will never change.