- May 21, 2006
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c-note said:I was grocery shopping recently. A white or perhaps hispanic looking girl loudly greeted a white or hispanic boy with "My n***a, whas up". My head spun around so quick Linda Blair would have been proud. I glared at her, then told her how racist and offensive that word is. She sheepishly said she didn't mean anything by it.
The fact that she thought nothing about saying the word out loud ticked me off even more. Why have we turned such a vile term for us into a term of endearment? And worse, why have we let non-blacks do the same?
Yes I see it all the time half the problem is that hip hop gangstaz have this habit of telling people its okay and these ignorant non black fools take these gansta rappaz word as representing all black views even though it doesn't even represent every N word using black rappers view let alone every black persons view. (not all gangsta rappaz say it is okay for the other kinds to say rhe n word but a lot of them do).
Another part of the problem is the excuses a lot of hip hop folk use when defending why they use the word.
They say things like they have deracialized the word they claim they have done the same to the N word that was done to b*stard and made it into a different word removed from is original meaning.
They also try and claim that simply mispelling it and mis pronoucing it N*gga instead of N*gger makes it a different word with different meanings.
Trouble with these white yellows and browns is they often see the likes of Busta rymes as representing the whole black community.
check any of these non blacks thinking they can use the word without it being considered offensive you will find they are almost certainly followers of hip hop..
Funny thing is Eminem seems to know that word is a no go area for him, guess he is maybe surrounded by enough of those rappers who still have enough sense left to tell him it sure isn't okay for non blacks to say.
As for blacks saying it I guess I am more ambivelient but the fact it seems to encourage non blacks into thinking its okay for them to use it seems enough by itself to make one think it should be a word never said by anyone.
Anyone seen that Ali G movie I was unlucky enough to catch about five minutes of it once, and that whole five minutes was taken up with a bunch of white guys saying whazzup my n*gga to each other