Yo at what point did black people start casually calling each other N***er

[BushidoBrown]

idk but i aint participatin
fukk that

 

[agpxknt]

nikka was just how we pronounce ******. It wasn't till gangsta rap music where you started seeing it spelled the way we pronounce it more frequently and it caught on to where it is a distinction amongst some.

 

[Illuminatos]

Only two types of "Black" people uses ER -- non-AADOS/Immigrants who don't care and dont see themselves as Black anyway.

And AADOS suffering from self-hate and lack of respect for their ancestors.

She said "two types" as if a black person who doesn't see themselves as black and one suffering from self-hate isn't the same damn thing.

 

[xoxodede]

She said "two types" as if a black person who doesn't see themselves as black and one suffering from self-hate isn't the same damn thing.

It isn't.

CONTEXT.

Many Black immigrants -- don't see themselves as "Black" but insert country. So, they don't think they are "black" - Black to them means Black American/AADOS.

 

[Illuminatos]

It isn't.

CONTEXT.

Many Black immigrants -- don't see themselves as "Black" but insert country. So, they don't think they are "black" - Black to them means Black American/AADOS.

I've lived in Brooklyn and South Florida, two cities with high concentrations of black immigrants and I've NEVER met one person that didn't consider themselves black.
Growing up I've known Jamaicans, AAs, Haitians, Nigerians, Ghanians, Panamanians, Trinidadians etc. We ALL considered ourselves "black" at the end of the day. So when you say "many" immigrants don't see themselves as black, that's BS, breh.
nikkas knew the difference between Black and Black American. No we weren't all Black Americans but we were all Black people at the end of the day.

 

[xoxodede]

I've lived in Brooklyn and South Florida, two cities with high concentrations of black immigrants and I've NEVER met one person that didn't consider themselves black.
Growing up I've known Jamaicans, AAs, Haitians, Nigerians, Ghanians, Panamanians, Trinidadians etc. We ALL considered ourselves "black" at the end of the day. So when you say "many" immigrants don't see themselves as black, that's BS, breh.
nikkas knew the difference between Black and Black American. No we weren't all Black Americans but we were all Black people at the end of the day.

Well sir -- that's not what they say on the Internet.

It's well known - many of them say "I'm not BLACK" -- i'm insert something or "insert something-American"

It's all good -- no issue -- but let's not act like many don't do that.

So, I stand by my statement.

 

[Illuminatos]

Well sir -- that's not what they say on the Internet.

It's well known - many of them say "I'm not BLACK" -- i'm insert something or "insert something-American"

It's all good -- no issue -- but let's not act like many don't do that.

So, I stand by my statement.

And there are black immigrants that would slap the shyt out of them for thinking they're not black.
Every group of black people has c00ns but I'll be damned if I get some Sotomayor videos and try to paint his views on all Black Americans.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I'll bite

Saying "a" devalues the racism attached to the "er".


Case in point, isn't there a thread where latinos are given a pass to say "a", but I bet if it's "er" it would be a sung a different tune

Either one I personally don't use IRL at all.


Just my opinion though

"er" and "a" was and is used interchangeably amongst whites in the South depending on there accents. Latinos using the word is a New York and California that should've been nipped in the bud.

 

[Alvin]

the hard "er" is not the same. i have never heard any of my people use the "er". only other races that want to be derogatory.

i agree with the second part of your statement and i very rarely say that word anymore, usually when i forget that i am trying not to use it. not on a crusade or some holier than thou thing though. and i have never asked any friends to stop using it.

It's really not the same, but I do agree with your last sentence

it is the same, a southern white person in the 1830s saying nikka is akin to them saying fo, or do instead of four or door like someone from up north

 

[Kski]

There’s no way most of ya’ll Coli nikkas grew up around black folk.

 

[old pig]

if you don't understand the difference between nikka and ****** then chances are you don't understand much about the nuances and creativity of your own people

and there's accounts of black people referring to each other as nikka since the 40's-50's, especially if you ever read any plays written by and performed by black folk

good post...I remember reading either ‘black boy’ or ‘native son’ in high school...both by richard wright...both were published in the 40s but based on the 30s and the characters casually referred to themselves/each other using the word “nikka”

 

[Thanos]

I haven't heard black person say ER so causally until Twitter. When you read/hear that shyt, someone is definitely giving a pass offline. It's used in Chappellesque context when I see it.

 

[Master Teacher]

black people also used the world nikka, but not as frequent or in public.

Gangsta rap is the only reason why nikka is apart of the urban vocabulary, and gangsta rap was a creation of white music execs, when NWA first came out they were a conscious rap group damn near on some hotep shyt

Dr, Dre and Ice Cube are some of the biggest fraud sell out all around bytch ass nikkaz in the history of the game, true sell outs, played a big part in the destruction of hip hop culture yet they get a pass and treated like they did something great

that's why I didn't mind ludacris shytting on ice cube for getting a life time achievement award at whatever fugazi ass award show it was

in the 80's the word nikka wasn't in rap

wasn't till the 90s where the word was every like a period at the end of a sentence

only song I can remember Rakim saying nikka was on the juice sound track and it was only once

 

[PhonZhi]

Blacks calling themselves and each other the NWORD in ANY variation is a clear reflection of our low self-esteem and racial pride .

If we all went into a coma right now and woke up 50 years from now and all black people no longer used that word towards each other, it would have meant that something happened in those 50 years to increase our racial pride as a people .

Right now we collectively have very low racial pride.

I personally stopped using the word as my pride in being black increased over time.

The word sickens me to the core now.

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

There’s no way most of ya’ll Coli nikkas grew up around black folk.

This is the knee-jerk reaction to this topic and it's sad as hell. "If you don't like referring to yourself and your people as n***as, you must be white-washed"-- do you realize how ass backwards that is? Even Malcolm X referred to us as the SO-CALLED negro... I guess he was white washed too?