While sitting on the Blazers’ plane the other night during a snowstorm, Lillard filmed himself singing a rap song featuring the N-word. My question is, how is that any different from Meyers Leonard using a racial epithet for Jews? Leonard, in fact, said he didn’t know what the word meant, but Lillard clearly knows what the N-Word means. Why did Leonard get roundly attacked for his mistake while Lillard gets no criticism at all?
Meyers claimed ignorance of the meaning of the word, I very much doubt a Jewish person wouldn't know its meaning. @crandc @Stevenson Would be the ones to ask.
This was such an odd way of saying that Meyers was a victim of black people unfairly having the advantage of using the N word when I can't!
Your play at ignorance is weak. You know very well what the difference is. When African Americans use the word it is not a racial epithet. Lillard and every other black person has every right to say it. Meyers Leonard used a Jewish slur. And no, Jewish people don't use said slur. They haven't reclaimed it like the black community has the other. The Jewish people would prefer it just not be used.
I was born and raised a Catholic and I trash Catholics on a regular basis (usually gleefully). Hey, we're actually a humorous bunch in general. As far as I'm concerned, I have the right because I lived it. But that doesn't mean I'm okay with non Catholics trashing Catholics, because they usually do so out of ignorance or hatred. I tend to believe Dame (and black people in general) use the N word for similar reasons. They have earned the right. White people have not. They almost always use the N word intentionally as a slur. Or at least that's my take on this "controversy"........making something out of nothing.......
Yes, they do, but it’s a huge mistake. Black and white kids grow up listening to Rap and hearing Rap singers use what they’ve been told is the most hateful word in the English language to describe themselves. This just perpetuates the racist, negative attitudes that blacks have been fighting against for generations.
