Just like if Joe Smoo who is white saying it around his black friends and they saying ‘its cool for HIM (Joe Smoo) to say it cause he’s “down” or “real”!’

Just like if Joe Smoo who is white saying it around his black friends and they saying ‘its cool for HIM (Joe Smoo) to say it cause he’s “down” or “real”!’

Chris said this on November 17, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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So trhen you agree that he doesn’t say the word then.

That being said when other races see that and the 1st thing that pops in their mind is “Hey wait his not black and he’s using the word” So a lot of people took it as the owrd is a “black community thing” it’s a “rapper slang thing”! Now I’m sure in the hood a lot of people growing up who didn’t know DJ Kaled probably thought he was spanish (being that the blacks seem to let spanish people say it in the hood). So most people growing up with him treated him as such.

Is it right?… of course it’s not right but this is the key reason why a lot of races look at the our music (Rap/Hip-Hop music) and see other races doing it so they then just follow suit. However, being that this isn’t a frequent discussion among people in America it is not described as an empowering word among black people to black people.

The word is falling more into the slang zone and not the definition it was intended for.

ummmm yeah i do lol. i got Eminem Show, Encore, and Curtain Call.

what i was tryin to say was that Kid Rock is white sayin it and doesnt get a pass. Eminem is white, has said it and is sayin it but gets a pass. i never heard anybody bein mad at Em sayin it. thats why i put the SMH cuz people hittin Kid Rock wit it when Em should get hit too. thats all i was sayin.

Chris said this on November 17, 2008 at 2:54 pm
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Em said it in a hidden “lost tape “and almost got a bunch of people MAD across the country!!
And he doesn’t use the word in his rhymes… so NO he doesn’t get a pass! DO you even listen to Eminem? Name the last song you heard with him using it.

Let’s say this; if you are not in a gang, why would you call people certain gang names and throw certain gang signs of that gang if your not in the gang?! That would just be you following what you think is slang or popular words for you to use at that time.

1st of black people started saying nigga and not nigger.

We used the word as a way to empower back what we were once being degraded from. Now that the Hip-Hop community is damn near mainstream and also apart of pop culture now that people who hear it more who are white think it’s cool and it’s just slang.

Being called that word ina degrading way and reversing the meaning to empower us in our music is the whole idea of the word. Not what you precieve as sayin “nigger”! It’s funny the word nigga has been used among the black community for decades with the same empowering idea behind.

Watch any old school 70′s black movie and that’s all you hear. So people like the Bill Cosby’s and Al Sharpton’s of the world were saying it with cause and not capturing the whole meaning behind it. They did what a non-black person or some white people do and define saying the word “nigga” as just relative slang. IT IS NOT RELATIVE SLANG! The problem some of may have realizing the confusion is that some people use the word in violent or drug related songs. These songs are sending their particular message about drugs or violence, the word “nigga” has nothing to do with what his talking about.

Yes we are all equals but in every culture on this planet there are things that a black person can’t do in other peoples particular culture. Just like an Asian/Russian/Argentinian person can’t do.

How is embracing your race with a word being racist? Explain that? Because you’re not black and can’t cross that line makes the black person racist.

So if we replaced the word “nigga” for my “black brother” would that be racist if you add it to your vocabulary in conversations if you are white or asian or any other race?

Lastly if you are or were a white person why would you even use a word that your kind used to degrade black people? Even if you do or don’t understand my definition of what the new word “nigga” means why would you even want to use it? Even if it was ok to say it why would you want to? Wouldn’t you think that it would be to close and would confuse a black person. So if your answer is you don’t want to use it in your vocab then why use it. Why does it seem people are so anxcious to use the word. Like I can’t wait to be cool and say “nigga” just like all the rappers!

If anything if I was white I wouldn’t have NO PROBLEM WITH NOT SAYING THE WORD “NIGGA” OR “NIGGER”! I WOULD NOTICE THAT THIS WORD IS “THEIR THING” I’d let them have their cultural commrotary.