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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 833530" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>Well, a big part of the difference lies in the fact that white people were never used as slave labor in this country and redneck was a not a term applied to white slaves. Nobody was ever lynched for being a redneck. No was ever denied a seat on a bus because he/she was a redneck, or told thay couldn't drink from certain water fountains or go to certain schools, etc. The "N" carries all of that history for black people in this country, and when you hear black people referring to each other that way what they are really doing is reclaiming a word that was once used to keep them down and deny them their rights and their humanity. "Redneck" carries none of that baggage, it's just a term (very often proudly self applied) for a good old boy from the south that came from farmers who worked in the hot sun all day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 833530, member: 4805"] Well, a big part of the difference lies in the fact that white people were never used as slave labor in this country and redneck was a not a term applied to white slaves. Nobody was ever lynched for being a redneck. No was ever denied a seat on a bus because he/she was a redneck, or told thay couldn't drink from certain water fountains or go to certain schools, etc. The "N" carries all of that history for black people in this country, and when you hear black people referring to each other that way what they are really doing is reclaiming a word that was once used to keep them down and deny them their rights and their humanity. "Redneck" carries none of that baggage, it's just a term (very often proudly self applied) for a good old boy from the south that came from farmers who worked in the hot sun all day. [/QUOTE]
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