Ehh.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve really tried to use the word less and less.
I understand that we took that word and changed it from a negative into a term of endearment.
At the same time though, we are the only people that SELL OUT OUR CULTURE TO THE MASSES, YET GET MAD WHEN WE GET THE RECEIPTS FOR IT.
If cats gonna use it in EVERY song that crosses over trying go platinum,what the fukk did we think was gonna happen?
Our culture was manufactured for GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT and so many of us are complicit with it.
We SHARED it with the world, damn near GAVE it to the world... and now we mad huh?
I hate when non blacks use the word, but I still look in the mirror.
This and the bolded especially.........
I'm 43, probably older than most cats on this forum. Grew up listening to west coast gangsta rap, NWA, Eazy E, Ice-T, Cube, Too Short, ect. The word "nikka" was used in every rap lyric on almost every album from all the artists I just listed. We made the word cool slang to use and call each other. Now we wanna push back because someone made a video of themselves saying along with artists song lyrics???? If we are gonna crucify Gina Rodriguez, you might as well round up every single IG female who put up videos of them staring into the camera singing or rapping along with a song that has the word "nikka" in it. Should Gina made an apology twice? fukk no! Social media users wanna be judge, jury, and executioner when something rubs them the wrong way. Why is it okay for us to use the word in daily common usage but not okay for everyone else. Are we gonna start pulling out Ancestry kits for people to find out if they are black to be ok to use slang? How this whole thing became social media news is stupid.
Ok, so I agree with both of you to an extent, right.
But, I can't get mad at the Brehs & Brehettes who are not happy with this word being thrown around so openly,
ESPECIALLY, if they don't even use the word as frequently as some of us do. We shouldn't even be saying to begin with,
BUT I understand why we do.
NOW, the problem, to me, comes in with their
"justification" on using the
N-Word.
"I grew up in the hood, I can say it"
I have a problem with this because, you mean to tell me, you
"grew up in the hood", but the
N-Word is the only thing you picked up from
"growing up" around us?
Yea, so the only thing we do is sit around all day in the hood, and call each other the
N-Word... FOH.
And then you have people trying to
"educate" us on our own culture, and even they're trying to say, who should be able to say the
N-Word.
I've also seen people on social media say,
"Black People who didn't grow up in the hood shouldn't be able to say the N-Word"
WTF


