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Originally posted by chris1991
Please use a dictionary and find the definition for "common".
Please tell me if you find a dictionary that defines it as making something acceptable because its frequently used. Again i never said it was ok, simply stated that i've heard the joke before.
Most african-americans use those "jokes" among themselves frequently though.
However that does not make it okay for anyone to use them.
Some of you guys are simply fishing for an argument.
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If you're not implying that Justin's use isn't a big deal, why are you bringing up that it's "common"?
Are you black? DO NOT speak for "most African Americans". I am black and I have NEVER heard that "joke" and I went to a predominantly black high school and a historically black college. None of my friends, family members or classmates told jokes about blacks that belittled/degraded/demeaned blacks. If it's not okay, according to you, why are you bringing up claims of what "most African Americans" supposedly do? The implication is that blacks shouldn't take offense because blacks do the same thing, except that it's NOT something that most blacks do and the rare black that would degrade his own people is not embraced by the black community. You're speaking out of two sides of your mouth. Justin is WRONG and what he said was RACIST -- period. What anyone else says or does is irrelevant to this thread.