in other words, can gay men use the f word themselves in their own community, for a better phrase, can black men use the n word, black women use the n word and it be prohibited by everybody else? in other words, can you carve it up or is it a case on you know what? it s never acceptable by anybody. both and no. as somebody called both of those words you should say them. the word is faggot and the other word is nigger. i m not the word police. you shouldn t use the word like a pronounce and use it in the workplace and use another word in the workplace. you can say whatever you want in the privacy on your own home but in the workplace there are rules and you need standardized rules across the board for everyone. the problem it seems to me, charles blow, say you have a group of young black teenagers in chicago or philadelphia or
this is the same person peggy noonan than said ronald reagan was completely not to blame at all for iran-contra, that it was bad handling by his staffers that he was not to blame, et cetera, et cetera. i m not i m confused as to why this same litmus test that she uses for ronald reagan she can t use for the current occupant of the oval office. now, let s set aside miss noonan s information here which is disinformation. it s actually it s snarky and it s beneath her. let s talk about what this is. this is purely 1,000% race-baiting. in missouri, okay, there are two parts to m, by the way. there s the part people don t talk about, the racial part and then the cosmopolitan part of missouri, if you will. i know racism. my father was a bigot. he was a racist. he thought me the n word was a perfectly fine word to use. one day when i came out of the closet, it occurred how would you like it if someone called you a faggot.
boycotting. i mean, i lived through two boycotts. few athletes have that opportunity. there s a short window of opportunity for young kids who trained their entire lives for this, whether they be gay or straight. you know, i was in competitions where i was called faggot and there was the whole fag buster campaign. it was very difficult sometimes when we would travel internationally, because nobody wanted to room with the fag. so i usually ended up rooming with one of the coaches. it s a very small team, small community. no one on your own team wanted to room with you? yeah. usually i would find one person on the team that was, you know, secure enough in their own sexuality that they knew it wasn t an issue. there have been a number of columnists here in the states who suggested that the athletes,
was called faggot, and there was t the fag buster campaign. it was very difficult sometimes when we would travel internationally, because nobody wanted to room with the fag. so i usually ended up rooming with one of the coaches. no one on your own team wanted to room with you? yeah. usually i would find one person on the team that was, you know, secure enough in their own sexuality that they knew it wasn t an issue. there have been a number of columnists here in the states that suggested the athletes on the u.s. team carry rainbow flags or other athletes do that. do you think that s a good idea? i think it s against ioc rules. yeah, it s a really tough call, and you know, unfortunately the iioc is not
i was in competitions where i was called faggot, and there was the fag buster campaign. it was very difficult sometimes when we would travel internationally, because nobody wanted to room with the fag. so i usually ended up rooming with one of the coaches. no one on your own team wanted to room with you? yeah. usually i would find one person on the team that was, you know, secure enough in their own sexuality that they knew it wasn t an issue. there have been a number of columnists here in the states that suggested the athletes on the u.s. team carry rainbow flags or other athletes do that. do you think that s a good idea? i think it s against ioc rules. yeah, it s a really tough