Have I missed some thing,was the dogs owner/namer not too black?

Dear csteele,

Read Jansey's opening post on this discussion.
The owner of the black dog is the girl (age unimportant).
She chose to name the dog. And Jansey has every right to
explain to her the history of the name. The fact that the
girl was offended by what he said and hasn't spoken to him
since, speaks volumes. She was offended at his pointing out
the disparaging history of the name - and she gets offended.
But he's not allowed to? Come-on. Something's not right
here. I would think that she doesn't value the friendship
all that much if she allows this to influence her. Jansey
was merely explaining things to her. Why was that unacceptable
when her using the name wasn't. I'd tell her (politely of
course) to go jump either that or buy a white pig and name
it after her.

NO
! I was wrong but 60 years ago I had a black dog, my firs with the full name.
Not the threads subject one I have never heard used or even heard.
Do we ignore the truth? in an effort to jump to a conclusion can we blind our selves to the fact these folk use the real word in talking about one an other?

I do get a bit sick of some of the garbage that goes on, with some people looking for something to bitch about.

About 30 years ago, in Townsville there was a pile of rubbish by a black group. They wanted the name of a rock between Magnetic & Palm islands changed.

It's name White rock. So called because it was a sea bird roost, & was guess what. Yes it was white. It is this precious bull dust from some aboriginal groups that does much harm to the genuine cause.

Well actually hasbeen, most of the geography of this nation had place names before colonial incursion. What happened to these perfectly good names? many of which described both environmental and story places. Townsville was named after Robert Towns, a slave trader, which is perhaps well suited to your perspectives on life and universe.

Jansey told us that the girl told him that "Jigaboo"
today was a "sense of empowerment."
Yes. It always was about "empowerment."
For the "Master" or "slave owner," not for the slave.
That's something that Jansey should tell his friend.
Providing she stops being "offended" long enought to
speak to him again.