>It went on to explain that the >slaves began to use the word when talking to each >other, their rationale being that if they took the >sting out of the racial epithet, certainly it would >serve no purpose to continue using the word in a >derogatory manner. If you take all of the piss out of >a word, then what pain can that word cause any longer? This is a point that Lenny Bruce brought up as well. But actually pulling off such a feat on a global scale is another thing... *********************************************************************** "I am not a censor, a priest or a politician. I dislike analyzing. I am not an orator, a philosopher or a theorist. I am merely a storyteller and the cinema is my work. I have invented myself entirely: a childhood, a personality, longings, dreams and memories, all in order to enable me to tell them." -- Federico Fellini.
