Reading Reflection #3

"The words are so silly, so juvenile, so utterly pathetic that they hardly qualify as racial slurs at all, let alone slurs on a par with those that have been historically deployed against people of color."

I can't say that I have ever personally been called a "honky" or "cracker" however if I was I know I wouldn't take it seriously. I believe you can have reverse racism in different areas but to have reverse racism at a name calling level is almost impossible. Its like the saying that you used when you were a kid, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". Racial slurs are thrown around so much in our everyday lives that it doest even phase me when I hear a white person say the word "nigger". Even on television racial slurs are used and not bleeped out. The first one that comes to my mind is a Dave Chapelle skit with a white family with the last name of Nigger. This reading wont change my belief that you cant have reverse racism because I believe it can happen in areas other then name calling, for example an educational scholarships that are for a certain race only. You can look at this as racist, prejudice, discrimination, whatever you want in the end the words may be different but the impact is all the same. In reality one would like to see peace between all races and not have a problem with it anymore, but it's almost impossible to ever accomplish this task. Granted racial slurs have come down many notches it will never reach equality for everyone. There will always be one person out there that will complain about something just to stir the mix back up.