So I had this conversation the other day with a brother and I said the word NIGGER. WOW, this dude blew up at me about my use of the word. So I asked, "what should I have said"? I mean, how should we identify ourselves? You know...what are we? Who are we? This is an argument that many of us struggle internally with. I mean. I'm just as confused as the next man. But why? NIGGER doesn't offend me because I won't let it. I won't give IT that kind of power. African American...nope! The word American offends me more than NIGGER! BLACK...OK, I dig that. Now, nobody WHITE better NOT call me a NIGGER, I've heard that said. But what if I change its meaning, I give it MY own power. Make NIGGER like SUPERMAN to me? Let NIGGER empower me.
Now know and understand that I know the history of that word and how it stung when it came out off the mouths of our oppressors. But didn't Martin Luther King through his preaching of non-violent tactics teach us to ignore the word and all other derogatory names and prejudices because we were MEN and that as MEN we were bigger than those words? Didn't we take the sting out of the word NIGGER by our actions? So whats with all the sensitivity?
You can't be my NIGGER no more or is it NIGGA? Ain't it all the same? My NIGGERS is my NIGGAS like my DOGS is my DAWGS...synonyms. Get it?
I heard Jesse Jackson call Obama a NIGGA or was it NIGGER. Oh and by the way...Why do you NIGGERS, NEGROES, BLACKS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, and COLOREDS whisper the word WHITE when you are talking about WHITE FOLKS....even in a room full of NIGGAS? Don't you know that they know they are WHITE?
Edots has been quiet for too long
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I think a lot of this is generational. One of our great powers as a people is in the ability to take "bad" and make it "good". Such as how the white man views himself "good" but is really quite bad. The question is how far can we take it, can we turn "Christian" into "evil," the term "rich" to mean you are really "poor" or even "President" into "servant?" No, the problem is that we don't know who we are, we are the most unique species on earth. The very first thing we were called upon our introduction to this world was "nigger". Its understandable that you would reject and resist a name given to you by a man who stole you from your home, language, family, religion and culture. But we argue times have changed and now we own that word, you can no longer use it because it belongs to us. Well there are two points to consider. If Nigger is an inoffensive word, then why can't whites use it and at what level do you use the word nigger to identify with the white man and his power? When any immigrant came off the boat, they instantly became an American when they could call a black person "Nigger." I am not saying I disagree with you but these are all things to consider.
Being called a "NIGGA" from anyones lips is a slap in the face to, Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, James Brown, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Frederick Douglass, Paul Robeson, Fannie Lou Hammer, Booker T Washington, Langston Hughes, aset-heru-asar, Madame C.J. Walker, Richard Wright, Alex Haley, George Washington Carver, Carter G Woodson, Sojourner Truth, Jesse Owens, Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B.Du Bois, Phillis Wheatley, Rosa Parks, Ida Wells-Bernett, and the list is infinite. I am ashamed when I use the word even with friends. I am appauld when I hear the word used around others. Do you think that one person on this list would be proud of that word.....NIGGA....It is just as important to eliminate the appropriate negative as it is to eleminate the offensive suggestion. P.E.A.C.E.......sorry so late joining the party
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