Brazoria Mayor Ken Corley wants to make it a city ordinance to fine people for using the "N" word. It would be up to the complainant if it were found offensive or not. You know what we find more offensive? Newspapers and media outlets that refer to it as the "N" word instead of typing the word. It's "nigger" and it's one of the most offensive words in the English language today. Its use in rap and hip-hop music is not empowering, it's degrading and offensive. Its use by big-belly rednecks and fat ladies at some restaurant in Vidor is offensive.
However, you can't fine someone to not make them a racist. That's home-training and a lot of people ain't got none.
ewwww mommy make them stop using those scary words.
Don't elected officials have to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution? Isn't the First Amendment - and the right to even offensive speech - still part of that document?
To Dennis,
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, "free speech is not absolute at all times and under all circumstances, and that speech that can be regulated involves language which is lewd and obscene, profane, libelous and insulting, or fighting words, which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace."
That being said, I disagree with the ordinance.
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N***er is a profane word. There aren't different shades of profanity. Profanity is what it is. F-word, S-word, M--F and yes the N-word.
H. Lewis Smith