In both society and the black community there seems to be a shift of energy when it comes to the usage or explaining the usage of the wotrd Nigger. What was once considered by many to be a derogatory racial slur to describe people of African descent has now become a socially accepted way of greeting, of identifying with and to one another. And yet, for so many of us, no matter how you choose to spell this word it still carries the same energy, the same hurt, pain, feelings of disregard and disrespect that it carried centuries ago.
Just because why have gotten creative and say that NIGGAS means Never Ignorant Gaining Goals Steadily or whatever acronym we come up it, when the word is said I still feel the hate, I still feel the disrespect. What's worse, Caucasian kids no say it to each other as if it's some rights of passage into the black diaspora. Now, here's the dilemma; we say that it's not proper when a white man calls you that it's not the same as when a brother calls you that. The original phrase or meaning was given to us by the while man, so do you really think just because you have a cool white friend that says it to you that in his mind it means the same as it does in yours?
Do you think our elders who were called that daily as a ways and means to subjugate them like hearing that word, much less being called it? Have they not endured enough, shit haven't we endured enough whereas we have to take the abuse and disrespect from each other now. I for one have been taught not to use nigger and black man/woman in the same sentence because it just doesn't belong. I am young enough to understand that times and people change and it is within their right to, however I am old enough to know that some things need to die a natural death because I have never been nor will ever be a nigger.
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