Should we stop using the n word and its variations?

[JLova]

Pretty much.

 

[UpAndComing]

Yes time to move on and b creative. The word is rooted in negativety no point in keeping it around.

The Nega - "Black God of Asia"
Negu - Name for Black Pharoah
NGR - The Egyptian word for God

It's sad Black people let White people b*stardize their own history

 

[-DMP-]

Im not gonna tell a grown person to stop saying it, because we grew up using the word. But my kids will not use it. Just like my younger bros dont use it.

-DMP-

 

[HollowPoints2]

So, most people here are black going by my "Identify your race" thread. Then there are the hundreds of lurkers, who are probably white.

My question to everyone here is, "Should we voluntarily stop using the n word and it's variations altogether?"
Variations include replacing the 'gg' with a 'kk' or 'cc", or replacing 'er' with an 'a' or "uh", and sometimes the 'i' with 'ee'.

Yes we should stop using the word.

 

[360crazy]

Nope a word is just a word. I'm not about to let words have power over me.

 

[Taadow]

Nah.

Here's what I wanna know...is it cussword status now??

If so, why doesn't everybody try to kill off all the cusswords?

Dig - I feel the same about it as I feel about cusswords; it's all about the context.
The problem is that people use cusswords out of context all the time now to where
the meaning is lost, and freely. I don't see anything wrong with lettin' them know
that's not cool.

 

[unit321]

aren't you asian? you shouldn't use any form of it...even if yall built the railroads

Hi, I'm not Chinese so I didn't build any railroads. Ya dikkryder, throwing out stereotypes that anyone Asian is basically Chinese.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

So, most people here are black going by my "Identify your race" thread. Then there are the hundreds of lurkers, who are probably white.

My question to everyone here is, "Should we voluntarily stop using the n word and it's variations altogether?"
Variations include replacing the 'gg' with a 'kk' or 'cc", or replacing 'er' with an 'a' or "uh", and sometimes the 'i' with 'ee'.

We should but please tell me how this benefits society and ends racism and poverty?

 

[Illuminatos]

What other variations of the N word are there?

 

[Lord Beasley]

hel nawl nicca

 

[unit321]

We should but please tell me how this benefits society and ends racism and poverty?

It doesn't end poverty.
It benefits society because you are no longer using a term that white American people came up with as a derogatory term for blacks. So when they used that term, they were basically saying that black people were not equal with white people. So nowadays, white supremacists use that term with the same meaning, but black people use that in a different way. It's confusing for the young generations of people coming up in society and it is better not to teach the use of a derogatory term as "okay". What I'm getting at is that all the black Americans who lived in the US from the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s went through extermely negative treatment: slavery, preferential treatment to employ white people over black people, decreased educational opportunities for black people, lynchings, killings, rape, torture, prejudice, etc. and the common thread of all those actions included the verbal use of the n word.

 

[IGSaint12]

Yes

 

[IGSaint12]

Should stop using it in public around non-blacks. Yes.

Blacks have to stop using it in rap music first.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

It doesn't end poverty.
It benefits society because you are no longer using a term that white American people came up with as a derogatory term for blacks. So when they used that term, they were basically saying that black people were not equal with white people. So nowadays, white supremacists use that term with the same meaning, but black people use that in a different way. It's confusing for the young generations of people coming up in society and it is better not to teach the use of a derogatory term as "okay". What I'm getting at is that all the black Americans who lived in the US from the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s went through extermely negative treatment: slavery, preferential treatment to employ white people over black people, decreased educational opportunities for black people, lynchings, killings, rape, torture, prejudice, etc. and the common thread of all those actions included the verbal use of the n word.

So it doesnt help end racism and it doesnt end poverty.

What if people just stop using the n word and use the word stupid? Arent we back where we started, friend?

 

[intruder]

Meh.. I dont use it, anyway. Makes no sense to me to call myself and my brothers something that i would claim to be offended by.
But then again while im black , im not "african american" so it's not like i can relate to how they perceive the word. So it's not for me to judge