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The kids call each other that and it seems to be acceptable for one Black to say it to another Black.
In that case it's not a bad word.
Personally I think that is one of the more vulgar slur words to label a Black person.
But these kids don't know/don't care about the history of that word it seems.
"Personally I think that is one of the more vulgar slur words to label a Black person."
Having personally worked in the black public housing and the surrounding ghettos, and the things I was called, the knives and guns pointed at me, more then in 2 tours in "Nam, I feel I HAVE THE RIGHT to "call a spade a spade"!
In my younger days I worked with some black dudes and often hung out with them outside of work. I thought it was kinda funny how it was N word this and N word that between them. They were friends but it felt like it was still a put down like an inside joke amongst them.
I think that word was used during the slave days by White people and was meant as a major put down as in "you're nothing but a dumb N word". With the end of slavery and over time the Black community adopted that word but kept its derogatory meaning to be used as a put down as in "you dumb N..."
Of course it is a Black word but kind of dumb that only Black people can use it and all others will be deemed Racist if the word ever crosses their lips. What nonsense. Rap music is just as popular among White kids these days as Black so what is a White kid to do if he is rapping along? Is he required to pause and not say that word?
I was kind of shocked the other night. I was watching "American Dad" on the cable channel "Adult Swim". I dozed off and the popular show "Boondock Saints" was on. It seemed like a fun show with interesting but somewhat angry Black characters but what was so terrible was how often the N word was used. This is a cartoon people. It does depict real life happenings in society but the use of the N word was offensive and that was exactly as it was meant as in "you dumb N.."
I think if the word has deemed to be the worst word in the world then it should be banned. Maybe we can get Biden to go after that word before the guns? I can only imagine that before the bullets start flying on the mean streets the N word flew first.
Just in case some are interested in how it came to be:
"The word originated in the 18th century as an adaptation of the Spanish word negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, which means "black"
I tend to agree with that sentiment. When i hear a black person casually use the N word it does not offend me.. sometimes i am taken back a little depending on the situation or the person but it does not offend me. A white person casually using the N word is appalling, in my opinion. Casually is the context here, if someone is quoting a song lyric or a book that changes the context therefore changes my reaction...
This is one of the things I'm never going to understand.
A word so loaded with history and with the power to hurt in the most profound manner, yet they use it among themselves.
Asians, Hispanics, and Jews in America have also had racist epithets created and thrown at them. Respectively, I'll call them the "C-word," the "S-word," and the "K-word."
But NEVER have I seen Asians calling each other the C-word, or Hispanics each other the S-word, or Jews the K-word to each other. I may have seen youths from different Asian nationalities who were hostile to each other using variations of the C-word but that was strictly a nationality vs. nationality thing rather than an Asian thing.
I know this isn't going to change, but I just think it's sad that a word that is so hated, to the extent it IMMEDIATELY brings vicious violence by a black person to any nonblack person who says it, is so freely and casually used among black people.
I was kind of shocked the other night. I was watching "American Dad" on the cable channel "Adult Swim". I dozed off and the popular show "Boondock Saints" was on. It seemed like a fun show with interesting but somewhat angry Black characters but what was so terrible was how often the N word was used. This is a cartoon people. It does depict real life happenings in society but the use of the N word was offensive and that was exactly as it was meant as in "you dumb N.."
That was "The Boondocks." "Boondock Saints" is something very different.
But "The Boondocks" is an interesting--and even important--television program.
While it pokes hard in multiple directions, it pokes most savagely at destructive attitudes black people perpetuate among ourselves. The writer, Aaron Magruder, is extremely aware of the foibles of his own culture, and he holds up a truthful mirror to show us our own ugliness.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid it has suffered greatly from the "Archie Bunker Effect," in that the very people who should recognize the ugliness presented is the ugliness they practice--and should change--are delighted to see their ugliness on the screen.
I don't consider the n word to be something that a person with class or intelligence would use no matter what their racial background is.
Agreed. Same with all the slurs.
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