i agree.

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"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"

-T.S. Eliot

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7-0-0

We are still enslaved by the social system, social/psychological warfare still exists and thats how they play us off against eachother, create divided popular opinion and out of sheer ignorance a majority of humans get a sports team mentality and want to beat the shit out of the person who supports the other "team" or in this case opinion instead of going "well you believe this and i believe this, lets discuss this in an intellectual sense see if we can find out the real shit" and if they still are at the same conclusions then instead of "lets agree to disagree" and moving on, you have the zealots fervently having to prove their point regardless of whether its true or not, hence lack of spine when it comes to uniting regardless of beliefs in anything. The same counts for division with skin colour and cultures. People need to get past this and realize its rich vs poor.

I have used the word with my png/fijian friend but we are like brothers pretty much and i dont use it in a demeaning way, only utmost respect, according to one of my "ignorant" associates i watch too much black people stuff (cause i smoke a bit of weed every now and then, and coincidentaly like hip hop music) :P. Ill respect the persons wishes if i use it and they are uncomfortable with it and dont want me to use it, i find the racist stereotyping mindview of quite a few white aussies annoying and i point out to them "being racist eh". I have to put up with the fact my good for nothing father is a neo nazi, so its probably a combination of rebellion against him and my love for hip hop & the culture associated and i consider myself black on the inside anyways.

regardless i also noticed nas used "nigger" not "nigga", if anything i think it was a publicity stunt now.

EDIT: Which was obvious from the start anyways lol but yeah.

If someone comes up to me going "whats up my nigga" i dont throw my hands up and scream "this mu'fucka". i keep it cool, say whats up, it only really bothers me when cats use it at the end of every sentence. ive actually came pretty damn close to altercation for fronting on somebody to shut up with that shit, but thats just me.

Also u from Aus., they use it over there? whom uses it against whom, white to black? does the word have as much of a culture clash as it does in america and do people get as offended by it as they do here? judging by the reactions of the Michael Jackson parody I'd imagine Aussies being fairly light hearted in regards to the n word. not a fact, just an assumption and i apologize if it's wrong.

but i guess in the nigga context its not so bad, i think it is good for the meaning to be changed

Yes i am from Aus, no one generally uses it (racist idiots generally use coon or some other stupid word), most of the indigenous peoples use the word cousin cuz or bro and the islanders use bro (although some do use nigga), as they each have their own particular slang. white australians still harbor alot of unnecessary racial stereotyping and views towards indigenous people, islanders and other ethnics and they are the brunt of alot of jokes (mostly the indigenous but pretty much every other ethnic group cop it) you could view it as light hearted, but still its a joke paying out on the particular group, remember the cronulla race riots that happened a few years ago where all these "aussie pride" wankers rolled around beating up lebanese people and other ethnics. in the long run we all have noses, eyes, internal organs etc. No need to apologize, i wouldnt know the full social situation in america and it would be a very new and exciting experience to go to america.

me and my friend use it very rarely anyways and its more of a natural happening, me and him be talking aways not scrutinizing our words and it pops up a few times in a few sentences, and its not as if we are using it at the end of every sentence or every third or fourth word. haha yeah man perfectly understandable, it would just get annoying some dude using it left right and center, or some idiot who was just using it to try and fit in

im not meaning a slave in the terms of bondage, im refering to the system if you believe in that, my view is that its slowly getting worse and worse as time progresses. everyone in the lower echelons of the social pyramid are not literally slaves, but pretty much are mental slaves. it says something when england and america are numbers 5/6 in the top 10 electronic police states in the world. i apologize for the misunderstanding.