Words Do Matter!

I believe in the power of words. I feel that they have the power to heal and the power to hurt. Many people have been in hurtful situations because they were hurt by something that somebody said. One thing that comes to my mind is the n-word. That is the one word in the black community that has done so much damage to our people. Yet today we have no feeling of offense when the word is said. Yet when a white person says the word we get upset. The same thing can be said for the Don Imus situation. When he referred to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team players as "nappy-headed hoes" everybody was outraged. Yet for some reason, a lot of black women have their hair looking tacky and in need of a hot comb! Plus, black people in America always make comments and jokes about their hair. I guess that you could say it is just something that we do. There are other words that have recently been deemed to be offensive in today's society. The B word(bitch) generates so mush controversy, especially among females. It is funny how a man can call a woman by that word and be in trouble, but yet females refer to themselves with that word. To me, if a word is offensive to you, then you should not say it. It is extremely annoying and aggravating to see the double standards that people show when they are discussing how a word is offensive only when somebody who is not like them uses it. Maybe the solution is to say only nice things to everybody that you see!