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What's the limit on controversial subjects?
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| LoveThatHipHop |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 7:53 PM | Message # 1 |
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Because I have a subject that I want to get all of your opinions on, and I'd really like to address it 
Because I'm cool like dat. I'm chill like dat. I'm peace like dat.
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| eboyd_ |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 8:11 PM | Message # 2 |
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Go ahead. That's what this section is for.
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| ilikebacon3000 |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 8:24 PM | Message # 3 |
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go for it, brotheren.
Life's a bitch and I'm just along for the ride.
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| LoveThatHipHop |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 8:30 PM | Message # 4 |
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Quote go for it, brotheren.
sisteren I found the literal meanings for these two words on dictionary.com and have this to say:
Nigger
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Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
a.
a black person.
b.
a member of any dark-skinned people.
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Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
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a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised. nigga noun
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" We all know where the word nigger came from. It was a derogatory term that White slave masters used against their African American slaves, while whipping their backs with straps or shouting, “Kill that nigger!” So why are we coming up with excuses for such an offensive word? No people, adding an –a or a –ah on the end does not make it lose it’s original meaning either! Neither is it something to be proud of! You may be black, but that does not make you a nigger, nor a nigga. It's unavoidable. Especially in the hip hop community. It's so sensitive and contentious, but yet used so heavily and casually; do we even notice it any more? I mean we've heard it so many times should it even be a problem? What's up my nigga? Nigga Please. Sucka Nigga. Niggaz4Life. Niggaz Iz Bad. Niggaz Don't Die. Fo Shizzal My Nizzle (fo sho my nigga). Fly Nigga Hill Figga. Niggas. We even hear non-black people using the word (Fat Joe in example, who is Puerto Rican/Cuban) So I ask, should the word be brought to subject and be noticed, or should it be left alone?
Because I'm cool like dat. I'm chill like dat. I'm peace like dat.
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| eboyd_ |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 8:46 PM | Message # 5 |
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Interesting. This was relevant to me recently. I play football and my coaches, respectable black men, heard a player, also black, use the term casually. We had a team meeting and the coach asked him "are you a nigga? You seem to like using that word casually" and the kid responded "well, I'm black, so yeah, I'm a nigga." The coach kicked him off the team.
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| Boner-Jamz-11 |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:10 PM | Message # 6 |
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that word just needs to be forgoten. Nobody should be using that word.
#TeamHipster
#SWAGSWAG
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| EmSeeD |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:15 PM | Message # 7 |
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i thought we already had a thread about this.
http://chirbit.com/emseed
http://youtube.com/siwooot
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| Lord_Meth |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:15 PM | Message # 8 |
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Blaze...wtf....?
Sick With It
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| Boner-Jamz-11 |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:17 PM | Message # 9 |
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we do have a thread like this
#TeamHipster
#SWAGSWAG
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| Lord_Meth |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:18 PM | Message # 10 |
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Quote (EYAR15) we do have a thread like this
EYAR15...? wat does that mean
Sick With It
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| Boner-Jamz-11 |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:19 PM | Message # 11 |
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my graffiti name
#TeamHipster
#SWAGSWAG
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| Lord_Meth |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:24 PM | Message # 12 |
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Quote (EYAR15) my graffiti name
oh ok that clears things up
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| Menace |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:28 PM | Message # 13 |
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Quote (LoveThatHipHop) sisteren smile I found the literal meanings for these two words on dictionary.com and have this to say:
Nigger
–noun
1.
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
a.
a black person.
b.
a member of any dark-skinned people.
2.
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
3.
a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised. nigga noun
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" We all know where the word nigger came from. It was a derogatory term that White slave masters used against their African American slaves, while whipping their backs with straps or shouting, “Kill that nigger!” So why are we coming up with excuses for such an offensive word? No people, adding an –a or a –ah on the end does not make it lose it’s original meaning either! Neither is it something to be proud of! You may be black, but that does not make you a nigger, nor a nigga. It's unavoidable. Especially in the hip hop community. It's so sensitive and contentious, but yet used so heavily and casually; do we even notice it any more? I mean we've heard it so many times should it even be a problem? What's up my nigga? Nigga Please. Sucka Nigga. Niggaz4Life. Niggaz Iz Bad. Niggaz Don't Die. Fo Shizzal My Nizzle (fo sho my nigga). Fly Nigga Hill Figga. Niggas. We even hear non-black people using the word (Fat Joe in example, who is Puerto Rican/Cuban) So I ask, should the word be brought to subject and be noticed, or should it be left alone? yes yes yes and yes is a disgrace to black people to use even on them selfs the word colonialism still lives in those terms
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| LoveThatHipHop |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:40 PM | Message # 14 |
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What i don't understand is why people still use it. It's a horrible word, but people are only increasing it's popularity. Added (08/Dec/14, 9:38 Pm)
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[Black] people are so offended by it, yet they use it on themselves. Added (08/Dec/14, 9:40 Pm)
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Quote We had a team meeting and the coach asked him "are you a nigga? You seem to like using that word casually" and the kid responded "well, I'm black, so yeah, I'm a nigga." The coach kicked him off the team. This is what I'm saying.
Because I'm cool like dat. I'm chill like dat. I'm peace like dat.
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| Menace |
Date: Sunday, 14/Dec/08, 9:45 PM | Message # 15 |
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Quote (LoveThatHipHop) What i don't understand is why people still use it. It's a horrible word, but people are only increasing it's popularity. Added (08/Dec/14, 9:38 Pm)
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[Black] people are so offended by it, yet they use it on themselves. Added (08/Dec/14, 9:40 Pm)
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We had a team meeting and the coach asked him "are you a nigga? You seem to like using that word casually" and the kid responded "well, I'm black, so yeah, I'm a nigga." The coach kicked him off the team. This is what I'm saying. well the over commercialization of the word made it famous making money from anything made it big as well as the educational limits in the black community and capitalist exploit of it
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