I'm glad this topic has come up. I absolutely, positively
HATE/LOATHE/ABHOR
the use of the "n" word by ANYONE, and ESPECIALLY by BLACKS! It's SO SAD & PATHETIC that whites can oppress us so much that they can actually "convince" (for lack of a better word) us to call ourselves the same offensive things they've called us! It's just like we've been brainwashed to believe that the very negative connotations whites associate with the word are actually true for us as a people.
I don't buy into that BULLS**T EXCUSE that "it doesn't mean the same thing when we say it"!!! Fact is, WE didn't create the word! Let's look at our history! I don't give two s**ts and a rat's a$$ what it has come to mean now that we're using it--it is and always will be a word meant to OFFEND and DEGRADE blacks. That, in and of itself is reason enough to erase it from ALL languages, from English, to Ebonics, to Hebrew, to Yiddish!
Fact is, we, as BLACKS, are so lax and carefree in our use of the word that we have NO RIGHT to be offended when anyone else uses it, and yet, for some reason we are! WTF?!?!?
If we are still getting pissed about non-blacks saying it, then we should stop using it. PERIOD!
I am disgusted by it, and ashamed when I see/hear whites (who buy more of our music than we do) jamming to a hip hop song drenched in the "n" word! I always wonder what they're thinking when they hear us call ourselves the very thing our grandfathers and grandmothers FAUGHT to avoid for years! I always think that they're secretly smiling at their granparents' accomlishment-- that they've made us belive that we ARE niggas!
As long as WE keep saying it, THEY keep winning.
And I'm Out!
the411
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Pi Kappa, SP97
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[This message has been edited by the411 (edited July 03, 2001).]