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Originally posted by christiangirl
This is the part that took me off-guard a bit: "every time we say “hey nigga”/to a black king or queen/guised as a greeting/we piss on dr. king’s dream/of reaching equality"
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I don't know. I suppose when we use the word, we are essentially giving others permission to use it - and seeing it's derrogatory background - the poem is correct in a sense. I thought it was interesting - I was looking at "Mind of Mencia" on comedy central. He traveled the street asking people the difference between the word Nigger and Nigga. There was a black guy standing next to a white guy. The black guy went on to say how nigga was in present day terms a way of saying "my boy, my friend, or dude". Yet, when the white guy (older - mind you) was like "It's a term of love or endearment actually..." the black guy was looking incredulous, like "be for real...".
