its just gets worse and worse how losely that word is being used..and nas is an idiot for wearing that shirt, that shirt i's a disgrace, i'm sure his grandmother or great grandma won't approve or would be ashamed of him wearing a t-shirt like that..wow thats sad..the word shouldn't be used by anyone any color for any reason.

i am not speaking for the idiots here but rather the well-informed people who choose to use it such as Mos Def (think "Black on Both Sides", the song "Mr. Nigga"), 2pac (who actually put a brilliant spin on the word, giving it the acronym N.ever I.gnorant G.etting G.oals A.ccomplished), Q-Tip ("Midnight Marauders", "Sucka Nigga"), Immortal Technique, and of course Nas, who use the word knowing they are only weakening it's power. yes, it is a shame that some idiots hear shit like that (after all, those ARE in fact the artists that made the use of that term popular in the first place, long before the idiots today took the credit for it and lost their political message behind it) and ignorantly use it. that is why it is VITAL that we promote awareness along with mainstreaming pejoratives. and just for kicks, here's the wiki page discussing linguistic amelioration, otherwise known as semantic change. i specifically linked the section discussing forces driving semantic change. this isn't simply speaking of the semantic change of pejoratives, but words in general. if you search that page, you will note that semantic change is majorly affected by social climates. for this reason, yes, kids need to be educated on this before using such hateful words, but we still shouldn't stop them from using it because it once was bad. we are only hindering it from becoming more meaningless. think about it, would you rather know the word exists and be scared of it, or allow it to run it's course into oblivion?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...._change

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Emmit Till, a 14 year old boy mind you, who was beaten to death for whistling at a white woman and is one of the driving forces behind the civil rights movement.

and yes, i know about all of the things presented above. i've done some moderate research on Emmet Till especially. that doesn't change the fact that getting upset at people is hindering the word's natural process of becoming less effective and powerful and that it is, in effect, hindering the process of eliminating racism. the more we let go of the word's mystique, while maintaining an understanding of the repercussions of the use of it in the past, the more we will grow as a society and the more we will free ourselves of racism.

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i was watching a boxing match on youtube, Robeto Duran vs some other guy, but it had the old 70's commercials,\

the first commercial that came on was these poor little black kids, walking through their neighborhood with a bucket of KFC each, bring it home, then they go to their mom's house in the poor looking neighborhood and the mother serves them the KFC, then straight after that it was an add with rich white people in flash suits advertising Cigars lol,

And you've said it before with slightly different words many times. I say, I understand and respect what you feel the word should mean and even see some reason behind it, but it will never be that way. It will always carry that weight because the people who lived through that shit are still here with vivid and clear memories of a nation that was divided and had such an intense hatred simply because there skin was slightly darker.

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i believe there will be a point where nigga may be so commercial we are forced to accept it, but with the "er"? never ... not in a hundered years

We tried that remember COINTELPRO ?? and how literally the US government massacred any opposition ??. The US has the bloodiest history of repression in human history some academics estimate that the history of repression in the US was and is bigger then that of totalitarian countries like the former Soviet Union . And it goes beyond race they destroyed the workers movement in the 20's they framed and killed Sacco and Vanzetti they infiltrated the " Industrial Workers Of The World " and they internally destroyed this organization the same tactic used on the Wobblies was latter used in the 70's on the Black Panthers . Any effort of grassroots organizing on a large scale is severally disrupted by the government . I thought you knew a fair amount of US history to understand this , freedom was never practiced in the US it was only repressed as Howard Zinn said the " relative freedom and democracy you have now was won by the socialists and anarchists of the US by their grassroots efforts " these Utopian dreamers as you once called them Taylor won the little freedom you have .

Exactly in the US freedom is rather a abstract ideal that is constantly praised . But freedom is a concrete reality based on the equal liberty of others. On the equal economic and social freedom of others . In an economically and socially unequal society freedom is privilege . In a positive sense, freedom consists of "the fullest development of all the faculties and powers of every human being, by education, by scientific training, and by material prosperity." Such a conception of freedom is "eminently social, because it can only be realized in society," not in isolation .

It's still an acronym for the word "nigger" you can twist it however you want it the same historical and social connotation it has .

As i already told you there is repression and secondly post colonial countries are bound to be based on a racist infrastructure . Institutionalized racism still exists in the US and many other post colonial countries . Black people can even take over the existing system it doesn't matter one must change the whole infrastructure of the US to abolish institutionalized racism.

look, you are obviously not black, so leave the meaning of it up to us !!! we are the only ones who are allowed to say it off the internet anyways !!!

we turned an ugly word into a beautiful word and some folks can't handle it

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