I'm not a N*gga!!
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Started by HU_Intellect
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May 2004
Due to recent post and extreme use of the word I thought that I would make this post. I wrote a novel called "I'm not a n*gga", that explained the history of the word and how it has evolved and the power that it has had on our people. Well the overall purpose of that novel (really short story) was to tell why we shouldn't refer to each other as n*ggas and how it is hypocritical to get mad at another race for using it when you use it everyday.
Everybody who knows me knows that I can't stand the word (just ask Wizdom and FAMU_first) I try to protest when ever I hear somebody using it but I find that I am often alone in my thinking and to many people it has just become another word, and it is often too energy consuming. I think there was a post like this before but, HOW DO Y'ALL FEEL ABOUT THE WORD N*GGA!
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i'm guilty...very guilty. I use it lots when i'm tellin stories. I usually say "mah ****" b4 a huge detail in tha plot. Or if on of my friends come through for me i might give them a congratulatory "My **** (insert name here)." I picked that up from living in Dallas for a while. I understand the historical meaning of the word but maybe i'm not as sensitive to it because i didn't get called it as a racial slur. Now if a non-black person says it i'm on they head quick!!! My granny n granpop will get really mad if u use it though. Other than using it in the above examples i don't say it much. i'm still guilty tho
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I personally do not like tha word, in any sense. I hardly ever use it, and when I do it is to insult. Its mostly because of the history of the word and the way it was used by **** owners to objectify and dehuminize their slaves. Whenever somebody who is not black uses the word it makes me feel as though they are trying to make me feel inferior.
With the way that rap music has become tha lastest trend there are many ignorant people who are being introduced to the word for the first time. Because they do not understand the history of the word they feel they can just throw it round as they please. If we really want others to stop using it then we need to stop using it ourselves. Thatll show em that we dont like word and that it still is offensive.
sowthwestplaya03 wrote:actually woman is not a negative word. Please use another example because that was not a good one.JaMarcus wrote:anything can be used negatively. I can use the word woman negatively if the need found me. "Dayum woman sit yo **** down." etc. The placement of word and the context in which a word is used is what makes a word bad. Please dont try to argue this point with me cuz I'll get started on connotations and denotations, as well as syntax and other Sh*t like that. <---English Major.
