"Osprey" <NoNeedtoknow@mail.com> writes:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246279,00.html

"Mayor Ken Corley of Brazoria, Texas, has proposed a city ordinance
that would make using the word in an offensive fashion a crime equal
to disturbing the peace and punishable by a fine of up to $500. But
legal experts said it's unlikely the law will stand up to the First
Amendment."

This is all well and good, the word shouldn't be used at all. But I
wonder, what about the blacks in the town of Brazoria, Texas who use
the word? I hear blacks, mainly the younger blacks, call each other
that all the time.

Would this apply to them as well?

I wonder, how many of them realize just how many blacks in the 60's
fought and shed blood, so we could get rid of using racial slurs
like that?

I wonder if Faux News bothered to mention the conditions under which
the proposed ordinance would be enforced: not if it was used as an
affectionate term, which raises the issue of criminalizing thought
*and* emotion...and the fact that the city would assess at least a
$500 fine per infraction. Can you say "municipal cash cow" for the
short term?

This ordinance is a waste of the taxpayers' time and
money in Brazoria (and Brazoria County). What's likely to happen, if
it's enacted, is it'll be slapped down by a higher court because of
that annoying First Amendment.

Why does everyone automatically assume that the "N" word is used only to
connote black persons?

Why does everyone automatically assume that the "N" word is used only to
connote black persons?