An open letter to Skinner (POSTED IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM)

[steve2470]

185. I really don't think this was an innocent mistake by all those jurors and definitely not the alerter

The alerter had plenty of time to read 1SBM's post and see that it was a QUOTE of another post and not even in the subject line of his post. I have a problem with the N-word being in subject lines of posts and threads, but not so much in the body. I especially have no problem with the N-word when a PoC uses it to illustrate a point, as 1SBM did here.

The jurors ? I know from long experience here at DU that most jurors take enough time to read a post and understand it. I don't buy the theory that all those jurors were in so much of a hurry that they didn't understand what was going on, and that they simply hated the N-word so much that they were willing to hide it, even in the body of a post by a BLACK MAN. I know how many DU'ers feel about the N-word, from the infamous thread where it was spelled out in the subject line of the thread. About 50% of this community defended it, from my recollection, because the word was quoted by the OP.

The original horrible racist post was bad enough, and got MIRT'ed as it should have been, and this simply compounded the injury.

Your Mileage May Vary. I'm not open to debating this, so... there's the opinion of a white guy who's a staunch ally of the AA community.

Steve

eta: Congrats to the two jurors who didn't take the alerter's bait, and the one juror who typed an explanation was either horribly confused or has an absolutist stance about the N-word. The other four jurors.... I won't type what I'm thinking.