A police captain in Murfreesboro, TN was suspended for 10 days for calling someone a n**g*r!

[Robor]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Jeffrey's Lobotomy
Had a white officer said it We'd be hearing about it on the national news. Obama would take a break from his vacation to say the officer acted stupidly and like a Typlical White Person.

Yeah probably not but nice try.

The Office of the Official Teleprompter of the President of the United States has probably updated it's response matrix in it's teleprompters and will learn from it's mistakes.

Trolling your own thread? :roll:

 

[jonks]

dumb da dumb dumb dumb!

We shouldn't punish people for words, we should be punishing the sentiment expressed in words. If the cop was having a discussion about the use of the N word and employed it during the discussion in an academic manner, he'd technically be "using a racial slur". Yet if he were suspended for having that discussion I think people would say "wtf?" He's not being racist, which is the wrong that should be punished in an official when it occurs.

If this cop was caught speaking out about 'white devils' or 'honkey's or whatever, then he should be punished the same way a white cop would have been for dropping N bombs.

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: rudder
WKRN.com, there is a video link where you can hear the audio.

And yes he does jsut sound like he is chatting up the locals. But he was suspended for "using a racial slur." I apologize as it is hard to convey a fecitious tone when typing a commentary. I just find it interesting that a black police officer was suspended for racism for using a term commonly used in the black community. Had a white officer been in that barbershop doing the same thing... he would probably be looking for another job.

I do think there is more to the story though... as in the police want to fire him but can't. The question still lingers as to why he was being recorded.

Based on the audio in that clip, I'd say he got a fair punishment for unbecoming conduct. As commonly used as the term is in some black communities, it isn't a term a uniformed officer should be using, regardless of his ethnicity.

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: jonks
dumb da dumb dumb dumb!

We shouldn't punish people for words, we should be punishing the sentiment expressed in words. If the cop was having a discussion about the use of the N word and employed it during the discussion in an academic manner, he'd technically be "using a racial slur". Yet if he were suspended for having that discussion I think people would say "wtf?" He's not being racist, which is the wrong that should be punished in an official when it occurs.

If this cop was caught speaking out about 'white devils' or 'honkey's or whatever, then he should be punished the same way a white cop would have been for dropping N bombs.

This. Basically, context matters. With that in mind, there's no need to write "the N word."

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: jonks
If this cop was caught speaking out about 'white devils' or 'honkey's or whatever, then he should be punished the same way a white cop would have been for dropping N bombs.

All cops should be held to the same standards in any such case, there is no reason to give disparaging one's own "race" a pass.

 

[xj0hnx]

Originally posted by: kylebisme

Originally posted by: jonks
If this cop was caught speaking out about 'white devils' or 'honkey's or whatever, then he should be punished the same way a white cop would have been for dropping N bombs.

All cops should be held to the same standards in any such case, there is no reason to give disparaging one's own "race" a pass.

Most of the time when I hear it used by blacks it is not a disparaging comment, it is more akin to "dude", you can almost universally interchange the terms. just sounds "harder".