Once again, leftists prove that they know nothing about their beloved ‘nuance’. Part of this may come from living outside the real world, couldn’t tell you.

Today I speak as a big dark male. I mean, I’m always big and dark when I speak, but this time I’m going to speak about my experiences as a big dark male, which is a horse of an entirely different color. I’ve often wondered why if racism is still such a big problem, do recent immigrants not see near so much of it as Americans? It’s always perplexed me. Do these irrational hate-mongers single out only Americans of color, leaving us furriners alone?

Racial slurs are used all the time. Sometimes affectionately, sometimes harmlessly, sometimes maliciously, and Ssometimes with specific racist imputations. When it comes to the latter two, most people persist in assuming that malicious use implies racial motivation. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

I’ve been in a few fights in my time, sometimes because I wasn’t white (many of these occurring at a prominent and very liberal northeast university), sometimes because some 20-something punk with feelings of inadequacy and alcohol-fueled temerity decided to pick on the biggest guy in the room, and sometimes because you fight for those that can’t. The only fight I ever started was back when I was 14, it was the first time I was called the N word. I’d been called a lot of other things. I’d had my religion, my heritage, and my skin color insulted before. But this was the first time that particular word was used around me. I’m not proud of starting it, and I haven’t done anything so stupid since. But anyone who witnessed that incident will tell you that it was pretty clearly a racial incident.

In the 8 or so years since, I’ve been called a n***er and worse (Osama, raghead, etc.), but only on a few of those occasions has their been any prejudice underlying the comment. In an antagonistic, aggressive setting, you insult the other person. It’s just what’s done. You insult their clothes, their hair, their ears, whatever’ll get a rise out of them. Skin color is just another one of those things. It’s so formulaic that you shouldn’t even bother imputing meaning of any kind to any of their insults.

I’ve definitely called a white opponent ‘cracka’ in a fight situation once or twice. Does that imply that I hate white people? Considering the frequency with which I’m referred to as an Uncle Tom, probably not. Same thing is true of my opponent.

Racially Motivated Incident:
Some yobs back in London hurtle by in a car screamin “You f***ing raghead,” followed by 10lb chunk of granite smacking me in the elbow…hard

Not-So-Racial Incident:
Kid with a chip on his shoulder starts a fight with me because I’m the biggest guy available. I call him a cracka. Since I was out exclusively with white friends when this happened, it’s probably safe to assume my comments were not racially-motivated.

White people can do bad things to black people and it not be racial, just dickheaded. Black people can do bad things to white people and it CAN be racially motivated. But the words they use have little to do with anything.