Matt Barnes Calls His Team The N Word

[bksballer89]

Barkley said he uses the word and doesn't think it's a big deal. The only thing Barnes did wrong was post it on twitter and post it on twitter during a game. Pretty sure he used the word in the locker room before. People are missing the true point Barnes attempted to make Blake needs to stop being a bitch and man up

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

Barkley said he uses the word and doesn't think it's a big deal. The only thing Barnes did wrong was post it on twitter and post it on twitter during a game. Pretty sure he used the word in the locker room before. People are missing the true point Barnes attempted to make Blake needs to stop being a bitch and man up

 

[occupant]

I'm pretty gangsta myself.

 

[bksballer89]

Barnes hit the nail on the head today with his comments.

"If you look at the particular way I said it, kids are seeing that through music, through their favorite artists, and probably some of their favorite movies and even on TV now," Barnes said Friday. "The word is not necessarily a racial slur. Everyone is trying to paint it like I made some kind of hate crime or something. It's a word that I guarantee you will be used out here on the court today. It's a word that I've already heard in the locker room. It's not as big a deal as people are trying to make it.

"This is a new day and age, and for my generation that's a very common word," Barnes said. "You hear it on the radio, you hear it in movies, you hear it on TV. It is what it is. It was never intended for any person on the team."

Barnes said he uses the word with friends and family and it was even used by his teammates before practice started on Friday.
Barnes, pressed about using the word and whether he would continued to do so, stressed that the way it is said and spelled makes a big difference.

"I think the way it's said makes people cringe," Barnes said. "I think if you put an –er at the end that makes people cringe, but if there's an –a at the end that's like people saying, 'bro.' That's just how we address people now. That's how we address our friends. That's how we talk. That's how my wife talks. That's how my family talks. People talk that way now. I think if you put the –er on it it's offensive and if you have an –a on it it's more slang."


Couldn't have said it any better

 

[bksballer89]

Barkley and Wilbon on the word

Barkley- "This national debate that's going on right now makes me uncomfortable," Charles Barkley said Thursday night on TNT during a segment discussing Clippers guard Matt Barnes angrily tweeting the N-word after being ejected from a game. "I'm a black man. I use the N-word. I will continue to use the N-word among my black friends, with my white friends."

"White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other," Barkley said.

Wilbon-"People can be upset with me if they want," he said on "Pardon the Interruption." "I, like a whole lot of people, use the N-word all day every day my whole life. ... I have a problem with white people framing the discussion for the use of the N-word."

 

[Jims_Doors]

Happens to me all the time, but I dont trip. I dont mind because if someone was racist, then they would not be call each other ****as.

Its a generation thing. The older generation are more critical of the word because they dealt with the true racist time back in the day.

I respect the people that dont like the word or dont like other races using it, but majority of the young generation dont mind it.

But if someone calls me a ****er, I will break their face.

You're so full of shit.

Do you ask those "random white guys" who you might not have heard correctly......"Hey, did you say ****a....or ****er"...... before you decide if you're going to break their face or not?

 

[Jims_Doors]

Parts of Jason Whitlock's column:

The N-word is a not a generational issue. The N-word was never a fad. It was a primary tool in the enslavement, disenfranchisement and cultural destruction of a race of people.

It's appropriate to laugh off our grandparents' overreaction to Afros, hippies, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. It's inappropriate to analogize their overreaction to rational people's repulsion at the aggressive mainstreaming of the N-word.

The debate surrounding the N-word isn't young people versus old people. It's intelligence versus ignorance, values versus no values, family versus dysfunction and responsible/restrained capitalism versus capitalism left unchecked.

My point is that the young people, from Jay Z to the kids in the Dolphins locker room to Matt Barnes, who think the N-word is a term of endearment or a word now devoid of its negative impact because of its popularity, are misguided in a way no previous American generation has been misguided.

Can you misguide a generation that has never been guided?

The values and perspectives pervasive in youth culture are not rooted in family. They're rooted in neglect, dysfunction and irresponsibility. The new normal should be rejected. Hearing the N-word, bitch, ho and other pejoratives tossed around inside public gathering spots should be disconcerting. The N-word's ascension to black America's favorite word in the dictionary is alarming. How a person defines himself or herself determines how he or she will be treated by the world.

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Lol@ Wilbon trying to get some cred. I just can't picture him sitting around throwing the N word around.

The N word is only as powerful as the intentions of the user.

I don't have much of an issue with the word being used. African Americans use it amongst themselves, so who am I as a white person to say they can or can not call themselves that? I truly don't give two fucks.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Barkley said he uses the word and doesn't think it's a big deal. The only thing Barnes did wrong was post it on twitter and post it on twitter during a game. Pretty sure he used the word in the locker room before. People are missing the true point Barnes attempted to make Blake needs to stop being a bitch and man up

I never have liked Barkley and never considered anything he says to be actually intelligent. If a white man calls a black man that word - he quickly gets railed as racist even though that was not his intention, but a black man can call another man that word and he says it's okay. That is called a double standard - when you say some words can only be used by once race. It's like they want to have their own language that no one else can used. Does any one see a problem with that?

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Hey - people - Doesn't any one consider the source when Barkley the moron says it's okay to do or say something?

 

[Cobiemonster]

Parts of Jason Whitlock's column:

The N-word is a not a generational issue. The N-word was never a fad. It was a primary tool in the enslavement, disenfranchisement and cultural destruction of a race of people.

It's appropriate to laugh off our grandparents' overreaction to Afros, hippies, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. It's inappropriate to analogize their overreaction to rational people's repulsion at the aggressive mainstreaming of the N-word.

The debate surrounding the N-word isn't young people versus old people. It's intelligence versus ignorance, values versus no values, family versus dysfunction and responsible/restrained capitalism versus capitalism left unchecked.

My point is that the young people, from Jay Z to the kids in the Dolphins locker room to Matt Barnes, who think the N-word is a term of endearment or a word now devoid of its negative impact because of its popularity, are misguided in a way no previous American generation has been misguided.

Can you misguide a generation that has never been guided?

The values and perspectives pervasive in youth culture are not rooted in family. They're rooted in neglect, dysfunction and irresponsibility. The new normal should be rejected. Hearing the N-word, bitch, ho and other pejoratives tossed around inside public gathering spots should be disconcerting. The N-word's ascension to black America's favorite word in the dictionary is alarming. How a person defines himself or herself determines how he or she will be treated by the world.

Jason Whitlock gets a lot of crap but I agree with every word he said here

 

[bksballer89]

I never have liked Barkley and never considered anything he says to be actually intelligent. If a white man calls a black man that word - he quickly gets railed as racist even though that was not his intention, but a black man can call another man that word and he says it's okay. That is called a double standard - when you say some words can only be used by once race. It's like they want to have their own language that no one else can used. Does any one see a problem with that?

If a white person say it as Riley Cooper did of course it is racist. If you're at a club and a white person say I'll f up every ni**er in here. That is clearly a racist comment. I have white friends and they use it in the same way I use it in the same context as I do so it is fine. Nobody ever said white people can't use the word. It's all about the context in which they use it in. The white media is so damn stupid. Anytime an athlete uses the word in public, they act like it is such a big deal like they never heard the word used before when I'm damn sure they always hear that word in NBA/NFL Locker Rooms.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

If a white person say it as Riley Cooper did of course it is racist. If you're at a club and a white person say I'll f up every ni**er in here. That is clearly a racist comment. I have white friends and they use it in the same way I use it in the same context as I do so it is fine. Nobody ever said white people can't use the word. It's all about the context in which they use it in. The white media is so damn stupid. Anytime an athlete uses the word in public, they act like it is such a big deal like they never heard the word used before when I'm damn sure they always hear that word in NBA/NFL Locker Rooms.

And so you think it's okay for them to have a language of their own? Matt Barnes has always been a piece of shit thug anyway - so that's why the news media is having a field day with this. He had zero credibility as anything but a thug before this and now he has confirmed his level of being an asshole. Had this been Lebron James - it would be over with already and we both know it. I have been watching blacks call each other that word before you was even born and I still don't think it's right. It's about treating others with respect. His team mates are people he should back up, but if he decides that he shouldn't back them up like that - then he should keep his fucking mouth shut and do it already. There is no reason to remind the entire world that he is the asshole of creation

 

[bksballer89]

How do we have a language of our own if we don't give a damn if White or any other race used the word as long as it is in the same context as we do and not in a racist context. How can we get mad at other races when the N word is all over?

 

[True Lakers Fan]

How do we have a language of our own if we don't give a damn if White or any other race used the word as long as it is in the same context as we do and not in a racist context. How can we get mad at other races when the N word is all over?

You obviously are not old enough and mature enough to understand, so I will move on

 

[LALakersboy24.7]

Hey - people - Doesn't any one consider the source when Barkley the moron says it's okay to do or say something?

 

[True Lakers Fan]

LMAO - That guy is such a fuckin moron, I can't believe anyone would have the nerve to use him as a source for saying it's okay to say something. Talk about ghetto - but Barnes and Barkley are both there

 

[bksballer89]

Wilbon is ghetto too right?

 

[BOTSLAYER]

Wilbon is ghetto too right?

skin color is the ultimate deciding factor for deciding if one is ghetto or a thug right?

 

[bksballer89]

Yeah white people aren't ghetto or thugs