Nigga

[Holly Hoffman]

OMG this is such a dilemma for me.

People ask that question all the time. Here's the deal: You're only allowed to slur your own race. Then everyone laughs along, because it seems self effacing.

The connotation that the word "nigger" holds is disrespectful, even when used by black people. It represents ignorance and inferiority. I don't think God would appreciate us taking such a term lightly. A racial slur against a race that you don't belong to is ALWAYS considered offensive, even if no one listening is of that particular race. A LOT of people are VERY sensitive about race. Almost everyone, (white people included) feels like they get discriminated against in one form or another on the grounds of race. Maybe in another 50 years or so, our national consciousness will have evolved enough that race won't be an issue, but until then, tread lightly.

I don't even like to use that word, honestly. I'm always afraid of offending someone. I really don't see anything comical about a word that has such negative condensations and history. People have killed and died over the "N" word. My friend, there is no stand up comedy in this word. I fail to see the humor that surrounds people being lynched, raped and tortured, because they were viewed as just “stupid, worthless niggas“.

However this is just my opinion. See, I got swaagggg <3

[GC Brown]

Jan 19, 2013 2:44:07 GMT -5 Crystal Cox said:

Niggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I say we go with this argument

[Crystal Cox]

i have no idea what i was trying to say

[Cirie Fields]

To the tune of:


Nig nig nig Shut up
Nig nig nig Shut up
Nig nig nig nig nig Shut up
Nig nig nig Shut up, shut up, shut up
Nig nig nig nig Shut up
Nig nig nig Shut up
Nig nig nig nig nig Shut up
Nig nig nig Sht up, shut up, shut up
Nig nig nig nig
Feels so good being black(Oh oh oh oh oh)
There's no way I'm turning back (Oh oh oh oh oh)
Now my past is my present, and i will represent (Oh oh oh oh oh)
chicken's great, chicken's fine (Oh oh oh oh oh)
Out the box, deep fried(Oh oh oh oh oh)
The affliction of your words leaves me feeling hurt (Oh oh oh oh oh)
'Cause it is so bad, and you're not even hood wit' it
hurt in the air, you don't care, I hate the sound of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips remind me
'Cause it is so bad, and you're not even hood wit' it
hurt in the air, you don't care, I hate the sound of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips remind me
Nig nig nig Shut up, Shut up, Shut up we hate it-hate it
Shut up, shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it
Shut up, Shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it (Nig Nig Nig)
Shut up, Shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it
Chicken's great, Chicken's fine (Oh oh oh oh oh)
Out the box, deep fried (Oh oh oh oh oh)
The affliction of your words leaves me feeling hurt (Oh oh oh oh oh)
'Cause it is so bad, and you're not even hood wit' it
hurt in the air, you don't care, I hate the sound of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips remind me
Nig nig nig Shut up, Shut up, Shut up we hate it-hate it
Shut up, shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it
Shut up, Shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it (Nig Nig Nig)
Shut up, Shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it
Nig-Nig-Nig & Ger-Ger-Ger
Nig-Nig-Nig & Ger-Ger-Ger
Oh, I hate the feeling you bring to me, oh, you turn me off
It's exactly what I've been hearing when they did me so wrong
And you're breakin the law, makin me say nah nah nah I hate it-hate it
'Cause it is so bad, and you're not even hood wit' it
hurt in the air, you don't care, I hate the sound of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips remind me
'Cause it is so bad, and you're not even hood wit' it
hurt in the air, you don't care, I hate the sound of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips remind me
Nig nig nig Shut up, Shut up, Shut up we hate it-hate it
Shut up, shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it
Shut up, Shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it (Nig Nig Nig)
Shut up, Shut up, shut up we hate it-hate it
Nig-Nig-Nig & Ger-Ger-Ger
Nig-Nig-Nig & Ger-Ger-Ger

[Osten Taylor]

lool I don' tknow Rihanna songs but that is brilliant.

[Nate Gonzalez]

[yasmin]

The N word should never be said, Nigga!

[yasmin]

My avatar really needs a crown. Frosti is making me jealous

[yasmin]

What did Rosa Parks do!? She said NAW!
What did Martin Luther King Jr do!? He said NAW!
What did Jackie Robinson do!? He said NAW!
What did Pantera do!? We said HELL NAW to this racism! The N word should never be said in vain my brothers and sisters! We cannot let the white people oppress us like they did in the Django Unchained times! We need to stand up together as one and let them know that the N word does not make us feel good inside. It reminds us of a ghastly past that we do not want to remember, but we must, and will never forget.

The End.

[Osten Taylor]

Jan 19, 2013 14:42:31 GMT -5 @yasmin said:

What did Rosa Parks do!? She said NAW!
What did Martin Luther King Jr do!? He said NAW!
What did Jackie Robinson do!? He said NAW!
What did Pantera do!? We said HELL NAW to this racism! The N word should never be said in vain my brothers and sisters! We cannot let the white people oppress us like they did in the Django Unchained times! We need to stand up together as one and let them know that the N word does not make us feel good inside. It reminds us of a ghastly past that we do not want to remember, but we must, and will never forget. YAW?

The End.

Fix'd

[Ghandia Johnson]

Jan 19, 2013 14:40:06 GMT -5 @yasmin said:

My avatar really needs a crown. Frosti is making me jealous

You guys can add whatever you want to your avatar as long as you don't make it bigger/smaller or fuck up your name or picture. Adding mustaches and shit is cool by me.

[Ted Rogers]

Don't forget to submit a final draft by 8:00pm EST

[Artis Silvester]

Alright we've gotta get something together

[Artis Silvester]

"Niggaaaaa"

The affliction of your words leaves me feeling hurt
'Cause it is so bad, and you're not even hood wit' it
hurt in the air, you don't care, I hate the sound of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips remind me
~ Robyn Fenty

Say the word Nigger in public and you will probably get the stare down, not just from black's but by people across all races. Why? It's because that one word carries with it the history of thousands of black slaves, brings up feelings of discrimination, slavery, hatred, segregation and was used in a derogatory context in the olden days. Even in today's age, the word, if said by someone who isn't black, usually is said because the person is angry and means to use it in a derogatory form. Yeah, we can call white people "honkies" but you tell me, what sounds more offensive. A black person saying honky, or a white person saying nigger?

Let's look at the word at it's most basic form. Nigger is derived from a latin word that means black, and black always represents evil in society and culture for one reason or another. It always has, and always will. So if the word itself is derived from something that is viewed as bad, calling someone a nigger is pretty much saying they are "bad/evil" in a sense, and go back to the Jim Crow and the slave era, using blacks as slaves, treating them like animals, and thinking they are inferior to whites, and why? Because of the color of their skin, because the color of their skin is not white, it's not good, it's black, which is bad.

Now in my opinion, nobody should use the word, just because of the things associated with it, the history behind it, however, some blacks have taken it and tried to change it's meaning by using it as a word to bond with one another, a form of brotherly love, like "my nigga", but that is only the case when it's a black saying it to another back. No matter how you put it, a non-black saying the word nigger will never be taken in that context and will always be viewed as a racist comment.

The connotation that the word "nigger" holds is disrespectful, even when used by black people. It represents ignorance and inferiority. I don't think God would appreciate us taking such a term lightly. A racial slur against a race that you don't belong to is ALWAYS considered offensive, even if no one listening is of that particular race. A LOT of people are VERY sensitive about race. Almost everyone, (white people included) feels like they get discriminated against in one form or another on the grounds of race. Maybe in another 50 years or so, our national consciousness will have evolved enough that race won't be an issue, but until then, tread lightly.

Nigger, when it comes down to it, is a powerfully loaded word that carries with it a lot of meanings. Depending on who says it - the context changes. In today's society especially, the public image of the word "nigger" has been stigmatized to the point that no matter who says it, and where, people will stare at who said it, and will always take it to be said in a derogatory and insulting way.

Words like nigger, and hate speech, in general, have an added dimension of meaning, a historical intent to cause harm, communicate a threat or symbolize a power dynamic, it just evokes too much bad history, history that was in the past and things people do not want to relive. We've moved past that stage in history, and I think it's about time we move past using loaded words like Nigger.

So no, a white person should not say the N word. When they do, it brings back memories from a time that we're trying to move past as a Country.

Slavery is America's biggest sin, and the N word represents an entire era in American history that shames us.

[Artis Silvester]

Took parts of Nate's argument, parts of Holly's, added in a forward from the poet Rihanna which was given to us by Cirie, and titled it after a quote from Crystal