Hipster racism

"If you have a problem with the word n*gger, please get on your telephones and call Method Man at his agency, at (redacted,) and when his agent and/or secretary therein picks up, I want you all to say 'I came to bring the pain...'"

Jimmy Urine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHQ8f1WuRs

The typical racist, "Well black people say it so that means it's okay if I do" argument.

Except no.

When a non-black person says the N-word, one of the top excuses given is that since black people use the slur, others should be able to as well. 

Why Black People Can Use the N-Word: A Perspective

That African Americans (and some Latinos) are able to use the N-word freely while others are not is, I take it, an obvious fact.  In one particular form, the N-word carries connotations of camaraderie.  The expression is used, as rapper Q-Tip has pontificated, “as a term of endearment.”  However, it is also widely known that this use is typically not available to non-black language users.  



White People Can Use the N-Word
White People Can Use the N-Word

 the real reason I don’t get the urge to slap a black person every time I hear them say the “N-word” is that the image of them holding a whip and screaming at me to pick cotton doesn’t pop into my head when they say it.  I don’t get the image of them telling me and “my kind” to go to the back of the bus.  If you’re white and you’re really wondering why so many blacks are against you saying the word, blame your ancestors.  They fucked it up for you.
And again, I’m now saying that you CAN say the word.  Just realize that saying it could come with consequences.  I have a group of female friends that call each other “Bitches.”  I’m smart enough to know though that if I walked up to one of them and said “Hey bitch”, I might get a knee to my nuts.  Same thing with white people who are hoping for the ability to use the N-word.  You can use it.  Use it as much as you want.  Go to downtown Baltimore wearing a “Nigga Please” shirt.  But after you get beaten to a pulp, I don’t want to hear you crying about a damn thing.



Jimmy Urine also uses the argument that he's "racist against white people." You cannot be racist against white people. Racism is about institutionalized oppression. he will just never get it. After all this time, what I still can't believe is how ignorant and yes, racist this band is.

And that's just the one song, mind. This says nothing about "F*ggot" and "Bitches" and "Five Year Old Panty Shot."

He (and his racist friends) can excuse this all they want. They are still all a group of ignorant, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic assholes.