Comments on: Inauguration Day, Expletives, and Racial Slurs

By: NIGGERLOVER

NIGGERLOVER — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:55:57 +0000

I AM A BLACK PERSON AND IF I EVER SEE ONE YOU U CRACKERS IN MY PART OF THE TOWN IM SHOOTING EVERYONE! SUCK ON THAT BITCHESSSS! KISS MY BLACK ASS! NIGGAS ARE AWESOME! GROW SOME BALLS AND STOP HATIN!

By: Sheri Johnson

Sheri Johnson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:47:14 +0000

Hey, you got me to click on it and I know your character and some of your background, so I knew it couldn't be all that bad. When I read your post, it all made sense. If someone saw the title and judged the content without reading it, I think that would be their problem honestly.

By: dewde

dewde — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:41:35 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me.

I knew that I would be alienating some people from my blog by choosing to use the uncensored words. I deliberated and about it for 2 months and as corny as it may sound to some people, I even prayed about the decision. I began drafting my inauguration day post once President Obama claimed victory.

I agree that it would be a shame if my motivation behind this was to shock and lure people in. But the truth is that the majority of my readers are fairly conservative evangelical Christians. It would have been wiser for me to not use expletives if I wanted to ensure continued readership. I genuinely expected to lose readers with this post, but I posted it anyway out of principle.

I write this blog so that my daughters will better understand us as parents, and me as a father. I make it public, not private, so that I can solicit feedback from a community along the way. One thing is for certain, I am going to screw this parenting thing up. I know it as sure as I know anything. Only people outside the situation will be able to see what I don't see, and speak truth into an area where I may be believing a lie.

This conversation is an excellent example.

As much as I want to protect my girls from the uglier parts of humanity, as much as I want to censor and soften that ugliness, I believe I need to be careful. Because ignorance is not bliss. Simple-mindedness and foolhardiness and naivety can be just as dangerous to them as being "worldly". I want my girls to develop antibodies to these ugly diseases, but you can not develop a healthy, antibody-filled immune system unless you are exposed to the sicknesses in small, controlled spurts.

In the end I asked myself, "What do I want Sydney and Savannah to know about what today means to me?" What kept coming back to me is, "The truth."

peace|dewde

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:56:29 +0000

I just read your post about labeling. Then I decided to read some of your blogs. I'm glad I did cause I was going to email my Aunt and Mom a link to your site. Now I can't cause they wouldn't understand the F*** or the N****. It's a shame cause I think they would have enjoyed the rest. It's also a shame that you had to use a title to of shock to lure people to read it.

By: dewde

dewde — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:07:20 +0000

I'm glad to hear that man. It was pretty thick where I was. And evenly balanced, too. I wouldn't say one side was any worse than the other.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:56:20 +0000

I attended high school in Georgia on the other side of the state during the same years and I don't ever recall there being that much tension. I guess the rednecks in North Georgia are higher-class than the ones in South Georgia.

By: Shifty

Shifty — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:33:04 +0000

One of the better election day posts I have read – ya didn't blow sunshine up Obama's hiney but you made a great case for the beautiful majesty of the event that took place yesterday.

I can dig it…

By: human3rror

human3rror — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:43:00 +0000

snap.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:15:33 +0000

And by they, you mean… oh, I'll leave our poet laureate out of this.

By: dewde

dewde — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:40:35 +0000

me too man.

By: dewde

dewde — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:39:25 +0000

Thx Jason. I grew up the same way. Never heard the n-word in our home.

By: dewde

dewde — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:37:23 +0000

lol now that's funny!

By: dewde

dewde — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:36:42 +0000

Thanks man. You are not the only one to notice the obvious misspelling. I too noticed it that morning. I spelled it here exactly like they spelled it back then .

By: SCBubba

SCBubba — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:54:30 +0000

I did (and am) celebrating today. "And because it matters it is historic and a cause to celebrate." I am saying that we will need to go beyond the celebration at some point.

I don't think the two things (celebrating today and looking forward) are mutually exclusive.

By: Archiemck

Archiemck — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:37:20 +0000

It is a great day for our lady!
Poetic, at least much more so than that silly "poem" I saw on TV.
I'm also pretty sick of Christians downplaying this because of an opposing political stance…
Glad history is not in the eye of the beholder.

Perhaps I'm the only one to notice the obvious misspelling?
and moon pies are disgusting

By: loswhit

loswhit — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:08:14 +0000

Can we once, for a day, not look to tomorrow and celebrate today?
Tomorrow will come and his accountability shall surely follow, but I challenge you to stop for a day and celebrate a historical day in our country.

By: Grammar Cop

Grammar Cop — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:39:52 +0000

It's "piqued my interest" — not "peaked."

By: I.H.S.

I.H.S. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:49:11 +0000

I saw your comment on Stuff christians like and I must say it peaked my interest, so I came to see where you were going with the title. Good post.

By: Chris F.

Chris F. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:14:04 +0000

Those Nigerian 419 scams are totally out of control. I heard that the only reason Obama originally ran for president is because he thought he needed to do that in order to receive a large sum of money in strictest confidence by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and prosecuting a transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending transaction requiring maximum confidence.

By: Jason Elkins

Jason Elkins — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:00:31 +0000

Great post. I didn't realize that the Nigerians could elicit so much hate!

My parents were hippies, and very accepting of others and the only 'swear word' I never heard was one that started with an "N".

It's a good day to be an American indeed.
Jason