The argument from Latinos is that they don't call themselves spics or wetbacks.
You would have to search high and low for a Spanish genre or Latin rapper calling themselves spics or wetbacks.
We in a fuucked up situation, because when hip hop started we were the dominant or least head and shoulders largest minority. Now we are #2 minority, but one aspect of our culture is dominant, and it's the music that uses "nikka" nearly every popular song.
The situation is fuucked.
You can make the argument if she should have recorded herself, but believe they singing along to these songs not just in U.S., but around the globe. We can "check" non-black people for their 1st Amendment right to sing/rap along, but how much energy does it take. The same 1st Amendment allowed that rapper to write and record those lyrics. Ill be the first to say, I'm uncomfortable hearing non-blacks using the word with or without hip hop, but there is part of me that is also resigned to the fact, I not interested in 1) Being the "speech police" and 2) Determining based on physical appearances who can say the word...but again Im not a fan of hearing it from nonblacks.
Its a fuucked up situation.
If yall want to go around giving non-blacks ultimatums, threatening, or physically assaulting...or just saying that's not cool all the time...then do so...but it's really a question of energy. We can stop using "nikka" today, but there are hundreds of thousands of songs in the archives that generations will listen to and enjoy. At the same time, the less we use it the quicker it will go out of style. For example, when was last time singers from early 1900s was on Hot 100. So if you want a surefire way to check non-blacks then it starts with us as black people to stop using, because it gives us the moral high ground to check others degrading or insulting.
Go into East L.A. and Washingt9n Heights, stand on a corner and shout at people there as spics and wetbacks..see what happens.
We gotta stop using "nikka", but it's ingrained, that it will require a full scale cultural shift.....not happening, I don't think....so rap will continue to use it, nonblacks around the world will continue to financially support, sing along and party to it and get their hair done to it.
This just my humble opinion. Doesn't mean I'm right or wrong.
The whole reason for the wetback slur is bcuz the Rio grande river separates texas from mexico and since its shallow enough to wade through in some parts it's one of the most preferred routes that illegal aliens use to enter the country, and in the process sneaking in their backs get wet
....or should he only respond if these teenagers were at a small common party and he's close enough to see and hear them?