Rihanna Offers Own Choice Words About Magazine’s Racial Slur

However wrong it was for the editor to do that…it is equally as wrong for that “whole race of people” to do all the time…if it is wrong for a white person, it is wrong for everyone

Well Rihanna you response was very mature NOT!!!

How is that a slur when they call themselves that, use it daily when talking to each other and others and generally can’t seem to communicate without using that word?

However, it’s ok if it’s in a song!

Vous êtes….

Le blond chant
de la jeunesse
décrit la lumière
d’un tendre
oiseau: avec le
sourire, dans
l’aube d’un poème
qui souffle avec
toi…..

Francesco Sinibaldi

Contrary to belief not all black people use the n-word or even promote its use. It’s a degrading word that has no place anywhere. Unless you are around all ALL black people everywhere 24/7 don’t make statements you know nothing about. Rhianna’s response was appropriate considering the slur that was directed her way. No one can determine how they would react unless they too have had racially derogatory comments expressed towards them as well.

Of course she knows how to read. Please do not judge her, because half of the people here in American do not know how to read, and remember she is not from American. So most definitely she can read. How about yourself, may be you can’t read. So stop juding. Shame on you!!!

The editor should have known better and she was right to resign. Black people throw the word around all the time, but an educated white woman should have know better. (ie. she should have known that the black population who shout the word from the rooftops 24/7 would cry racism over a Caucasian using the very word that they seem so proud of.)

First of all, Rihanna is NOT African American, she is Caribbean (Barbados). There is a BIG difference! (Just goes to prove stupid racists are just that, STUPID!)
Second of all, the editor was stupid in thinking that the term she used was OK to print, she should be fired! not able to resign. Thirdly Rihanna’s response is much better than mine would have been if that editor referred to me like that in an article. So to all the racist trash that thinks that its ok to call someone that then you have a place in Hell with your name on it.

A people that continually degrade themselves with their primate like behavior around the world have no crediability. So who cares if they don’t like being called something, they can kiss my white ass. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcome X and the rest of the civil rights people that died in the 60′s are rolling over in their graves at the conduct of modern blacks in america and around the world.

Wow, this brought out a bunch of racist people to make comments. I guess things will never change. And to make a statement about black people using that word, I for one have and never will. MOST blacks do find that deragotory. So stop trying to bundle the entire black race into one or as someone above called Primate. Just ignorant and I assure that person must come from a long line of ignorant people. Anyways, I don’t think Rihanna handled that well. She could have been more tasteful with her words.

To Catherine_comment: No one wants to kiss that flat thing!

Bruce, Jesus loves you, even if you don’t love yourself.

I will only entertain the ignorance of some of these posters for a moment and state the following: the vast majority of black people do not use that word. Stop watching BET and stand-up comedy specials on HBO, and you might have figured that out on your own and saved yourselves from looking stupid.

Sharon, how do you know what black people were taught growing up? No one throws the race card every single turn. Let me not entertaine such ignorance.

I like Rihanna. The problem is she can’t spell “You.”

I am black and do not use or condone that word so if anyone wants to call me that word whether your white, black, asian, hispanic, its going to make me upset. I don’t think people really realize how many black people don’t like that word I know plenty of black people who don’t say and don’t like it. Just because you hear rappers or a few ignorant people say doesn’t mean the majority of the race does. I can’t tell you the last time I have even heard a black person say it unless I’m listening to a rap song. On another note, it’s always going to be a sesitive subject for black people especially comming from a white person, and how that word came about. Its like having double standards for men and women. This is a double standard for white and blacks but just the black people who actually use the word. It just hurts when it comes from a white person for most black people, because it usually sends the message that you don’t like me because of my skin color but I did nothing to you. This is written in stone and it will never change, so why continue to be suprised or mad when somebody else get’s mad for be called the N word.

Rihanna’s response was just as offensive as the magazine.

I don’t see what people think is so beautiful about Rihanna. I think she’s spooky looking.

Rihanna was not required to take the high road. A phrase like that has no place in a magazine. It matters not that some blacks (not all of them) continue to use the “N” word.

I am not a fan of Rhianna, but she was right. It would have been better received had she not used the “F” statement but still her message was true. Yes we all know blacks use the “N” word quite often in their music and that is up to them….We also know that it has a different effect when uttered by a white person….sorry those are just the facts.

Get real, RIHANNA FAN. She doesn’t deserve any particular respect at all. She’s just another no-talent skank making money by showing off her body to morons who eat it up.

To those of you saying that black people use the term all the timeI ask. In your perosnal life how many adult black person do you know use the n word all the time? Is that silence I hear…

Let me add a little to my prior statement. I am a Caucasian (or at least most of me is…1/4 Native American), born and raised in Alabama. I am NOT a racist, as many people think all of us “ignorant rednecks” are. I DO, however, hear AAs call each other “nigga” on a daily basis here. I assume it’s more prominent in the south than other places. I graduated from a high school with a predominantly black graduating class in 1994, and it was commonplace to hear that term used. It is more widespread than some of you care to admit. My earlier point was that it’s moot to try and defend yourself against that term when others of your race seem to make light of it. Maybe you do only hear it from comedians and rappers. But as long as people are still buying their CDs (or downloads, in our modernized world) and DVDs, or buying tickets to their concerts, they will continue to “represent” your race in this manner.

WOW …..I feel so sad for people who think it’s o.k. to use such racist and derogatory language, I guess we are not all equal… 

If the word(s) in question are ‘racist’ then why are they used by the race being affected? I just don’t get it. Racism continues in every country in the world. I hear African-Americans call each other the ‘N’ word, the Mexicans use ‘wetback’ all the time against one another, white Americans use the word ‘trailer-trash’ for one another all the time, etc. It’s just a word. I believe you give more meaning to an inappropriate word when you react to it in the way the person using it intended for you to react to it. Sticks and stones…

Unfortunately it seems that the usage of the n-word will remain an unresolved issue. For me, I don’t get too bogged-down on the semantics and petty justifications for its use i.e. “it’s a term of endearment” or “it depends on the context”. RIHANNA, DONT MAKE A BIG THING OUT OF IT!…

In reference to what phoenix wrote…Not all black people refer to themselves by the N-word. Get educated, and stop using that excuse to use the word.

Just want to point out that this is a Dutch magazine and, despite most American’s thoughts to the contrary, not every other country out there knows everything there is to know about American culture – especially pop culture. I easily believe this is a misunderstanding of the subtleties and nuance of the phrase on the part of the Dutch editor. We Americans are not really the center of the universe, you know.

REALLY—Yes this is very true but its still the editors responsibility to know and since it was the dutch readers who first did the outcry of resentment, it leads one to believe that they are very much aware of the word.

Lets all remember that this is a Dutch magazine and not an American one. Do you all really think that Dutch people on the other side of the world know that using this sort of language to desrcibe a black person in America wrong?? They don’t know. They hear it in the movies, the songs and in entertainment coming from America all the time. And its not being used by whites its being used by Blacks so of course they are going to think it is okay and cool to use. The editor even said that she thought it was okay to use becuase Black Americans use it all the time. Rihanna herself uses the word on her albums. So Rihanna needs to do her part first before she accuses someone else of calling her the N word.

Why are their so many closeted racist hovering around the internet! Not all black people use that term it is wrong no matter who is saying it. I have never heard that term come out of anyone’s mouth, much less as a title of an article. Classless and disgusting!

OMG!! I am a huge fan of Rihanna – She is NOT a no-talent; that woman rocks! The editor made a mistake – evidently she’s not very smart. How she got to be an editor of a magazine and have that little knowledge of public opinion and decent behavior – black and white – is beyond me. Rihanna had every right to voice her disdain over being called “out of her name” in such a dispicable way! She is a very classy woman and you could feel her emotions in the last comment. I think I would’ve had a big #### You to say, too. When it’s all said and done – she will still be a huge star – making huge money – and all of you haters out there – if you don’t like her exercise YOUR human right and don’t listen to her or buy her music. Believe me – she won’t miss you!!!!

Rather black people use the N word or not is not here or there. I’m sick and tired of whites and non blacks feeling that if some blacks use the N word it should be ok for everyone. Well, I guess if all black people jumped out of a window you would do it too right? Black people are the most copied people on the planet from music to our clothes to the way we talk every race copies black people FACT. This white women was wrong and rihanna was very mature about the whole thing

And to the idiots who feel that the editor was right, how about I hit you with a racial slur that resonates with your people…how would you feel. Yall need to stop the BS!!! Racist pigs!

Some of the racially spiteful comments are truly disturbing!!! Making reckless generalities regarding people of color is a sad reflection on so many levels. The editor in question was demeaning and insulting for allowing such statements to appear in a public magazine. Rihanna had every right to express her anger and disgust w/ the magazine’s portrayal of her. We need to get past this misguided notion that the N-word is an acceptable term w/in the African-American society. This is NOT my realty as an African-American woman. Some people choose to re-appropriate the symbols of oppression and this represents their journey. Many women of all races proudly refer to themselves as the “B-word” and this is equally uncool in my book. The bottom line is that, if you are motivated by racial hatred and perpetuating racial hatred, your comments will reflect this. My focus remains on the editor in question and why this individual felt it was acceptable to print such comments in the first place. In jest. I think not. She had to have known on some level the tremendous fallout from her very poor word choices. For me this is not about Rihanna or her music. You are allowed not to like Rihanna. You are even allowed not to like people of color, but let us cultivate, establish, and maintain some degree of civility as it relates to our fellow man. Those who violate this should be reprimanded on a variety of levels. One love.

My thoughts we live in the 21st century and it is sad that people still go on about this issue. Not everyone uses this word and some people need to get off their high horses and quit calling everyone in the same group the N word. I don’t use it and I don’t like it. It’s super offensive. Black people are not playing the race card look at were people are living. I am from the Caribbean and I have never experienced the kind of racism I face here in this Country. Back home I don’t get that at all. So, to put this simple and short Caucasians of all kind need to stop stereotyping all BLACK people we are not the same culture GO EDUCATE YOURSELVES. We don’t call you folks anything do we??? She is right and has a mind to speak her own free speech just like I do.

Do a Google search on that phrase and look at the images. There must be a million blacks using that phrase at full throttle. Blacks themselves lobby that putting an “a” at the end of the word completely changes the meaning, making it acceptable for common use. I am sick of whining blacks with their double standards and always wanting to be the victim of some kind of injustice. Is it any wonder anyone with an IQ over 50 can’t stand to be around them?

Some of you should be tested before you are allowed to have an opinion. Judging by the dumb remarks regarding your opinion that all blacks, despite only having been exposed to a small fraction of the black society, refer to themselves as n……. And b…….., it is a sad reality that, based upon the lack of reasoning ability, that the education system has failed many of you; hmmmmm, maybe that is why a woman who was not educated in this country can use words that she can actually spell.

Does anyone even realise that is was a Dutch mag, aimed a Dutch market.

In The Netherlands nobody really cares about the word as they only know it from (here comes the irony) HipHop, Rap and R&B music. Rihanna fills the songs with the word in question constantly.

So concluding: Different county, different culture, and give double standards a rest, it’s just silly.

regardless of whether using the word is right or wrong, or whether it was intended to be hurtful or not, as editor-in-chief of a magazine with many years experience, she should have known better….end of story. and to all those white ppl above with their ignorant comments about blacks using that word on other blacks, who gives a damn. this is a case where what’s good for the goose ISN’T good for the gander. i am a black young woman and i’m proud. personally, if someone called me a N or a B i would just ignore the comment, because i know i deserve way more respect than that, and stooping to that person’s level would only make me look just as ignorant as them. i am a Barbadian, just like rihanna, but she makes me ashamed to be a Barbadian woman and she is a terrible role model for any woman regardless of age. she has no self-respect so i am marveled that she expects others to respect her.
on another note, why do americans consider all black ppl african american???????? what’s up with that anyway?