Bumper Stickers Can Be Racist

            I just read the article “’Don’t Re-Nig’ purveyor Paula Smith says bumper sticker isn’t racist.” To say the least, I was shocked when I read this and very offended. There is an image of a car with the bumper sticker that reads ‘Don’t Re-Nig In 2012.’ Obviously, the person who created this sticker is very racist and the person with the sticker on their car isn’t afraid to show their racism. Racism isn’t a question in this conflict, however, Paula Smith, creator of the bumper sticker argues otherwise. She is from Hinesville, Georgia and “insists that neither she nor the sicker are racist.”

            Ms. Smith has an online website that sells controversial stickers and other items in perusal of Obama. When Ms. Smith was interviewed by Roger Friedman, she claimed that the “N-Word” is not defined as racist in the dictionary. But Friedman found on dictionary.com that the “N-Word” is defined as “’probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense.’”

            Clearly according to the dictionary and any normal human being, the N-Word is offensive and should not be a part of anti-Obama campaigning. After being disproved by this definition, Ms. Smith continued to argue in her interview, saying “that President Obama is ‘not even black,’ but rather, ‘a mixture of race.’” In my opinion, I think Ms. Paula Smith should go ask President Obama face-to-face whether or not he finds the word offensive. I would then have her hold up her white arm to his and see if she would then still tell the world that he is not black.

            Ms. Smith continued to dig herself a deeper hole when she said that the N-Word is not ‘offensive’ or ‘derogatory,’ but then said that “she herself does not even use the word.” So its not offensive, but you don’t use the word? And you don’t use the word but you decided to create a website that uses the word that all of America and other countries can access? And you decided to put on that website a bumper sticker that uses the word that can be purchased by any person in the world? And you say you don’t use the N-Word is that correct? Makes no sense to me.

            More important than Ms. Smiths’ contradicting statements is my and the world’s belief that the N-Word should not be used. No excuse for using the word or justification can be made; it is simply wrong to use it and it is not worth it to argue otherwise.