Newly Crowned Miss Teen USA already in trouble

I don't ever hear that word--not from my black friends, not from my white friends, not from friends from any other ethnic group.

If and when I do hear it uttered, i.e., at a bus stop or a sidewalk, it seems alien to me.

And I don't listen to music that uses that word.

 

Employers can, at their discretion, look at social media to learn about potential employees. They can reject the applicant because of what they find because the applicant is being hired to represent a company.

Vanessa Williams had to relinquish her crown and title because she had posed nude before competing in and winning Miss U.S.A.. It was done without any hesitation because such things do not reflect what the title stands for.

Times may have changed, but to give a pass for such things is not what these pageant organizations are about, either.

I hear the n-word a lot among black male co-workers at my job. I've even heard young Latino guys say it.

The word doesn't bother me. But if it is used with malicious intent or followed by offensive or violent action, it REALLY bothers me.

On a clip of TYT, a guy working for Mitt Romney's campaign called a black woman walking on a crosswalk the word and then gave her a karate chop. He was arrested for assault and went to jail. After a month he was released and he still had his job with the Romney campaign.

White privilege, affluenza...this is getting ridiculous.

 

I agree. Kids are stupid. They do and say stupid things. I know for sure because I've been there

 

I say it all the time if the same tech existed when we were kids nearly no one would have a job right now.

 

There will always be a Cindy McPherson. I don't think she was malicious in her comments but she does display a bit of ignorance. I'm not a fan of the word but it is slowly becoming a synonym for buddy or pal(I clearly don't agree with it).

This reminds me of a Kevin smith experience where he wanted to call his rap group wiggas but the principal told them not to. He didn't understand why not until the principal explain the history of how the word wigga came to be.

I'm not calling her David Duke but she isn't Martin Luther King Jr either.


She will learn from the experience like Kevin did and move on. We got bigger problems here.

 

I read that she is blaming it on her friends and hip hop. The usual. She knew she had no business saying it, but because she wants to be "cool" she will do what the other "cool" white kids are doing and say the nigga. She is a racist piece of shit, her title should have been taken from her, she is garbage, end of story.

 

Yeah , in a few years a lot of folks are gonna be slammed

The way I see it , hr's job is to weed out folks (find reasons not to interview you) . dont be your own enemy

 

Sounds like she was saying it sarcastically, even the "er" spelling of it and wasn't trying to be racist. She was trying to be funny and edgy and failed hard because she's a dumb kid and not Louis CK. Not an excuse though because I don't recall anybody on my friend's list being THAT stupid and we did some dumb shit on Myspace back in the day.

 

Her speech coaches and writers knew better than that. Even they have to update their arsenal.

 

Well done.......well done.

 

She is a racist, plain and simple. But, it is nothing new. She will apologize and learn to keep her racism to herself for a while until she slips up again like every other racist out there.

 

Unfortunately, as she is someone in the public eye, she will create an image that all young white women are like this.

 

Where did you read that? I'd be interested to read that myself. Thanks for the share.

 

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"I am very sorry," she said. "It's embarrassing. It's something I'm ashamed of. I've grown up from that 15-year-old girl who used that type of language. It's never acceptable and now I know how hurtful it is. It hurts me to know that at one point in my life I used that language – I said that. It's not me."

"At that age, I was being a follower," she continued. "I was trying to fit in with my friends. The word was thrown around in the music I listened to, with the friends I hung out with, and I had no guidance. So it was kind of a careless mistake."

Hay said she was "just amazed that at one point in my life I thought it was okay to use that word," adding that "it's not an excuse – there is no excuse to say that word at all."

Called it the affluenza defense.

 

No guidance? Bitch, stop.

 

No shit.

And it's not like she was a lil kid saying things. She was what - 15? Even a 6- 8 year old would know better.

 

What music was she listening to had nigger in it? I'd love for her to list these songs.

 

Now she is covering her butt. Hope she resigns.

 

This one's a stretch, but......Nas' Nigger album? :-?

 

It was called Untitled when it was sold on Itunes and I will bet a week's pay she never even heard of that album probably not even Nas. Anyone who listened to that album wouldn't use the word the way she did.
Did you here the joint Nigger on the album powerful as fuck.