Why do some black people call each other nigas?

Answer 1

the word means a person with low selfsteem ,in other words a ***** can be anybody so why is it that it only applies racially to blacks.what ACTUALLY gets me is the fact that todays youth cant have a conversation without ***** this ***** that foreigners as myself are using the word not fully comprehending the history of afroamericans im part dutch,nativeamerican and african and i understand so why can my fellow countrymen not only see that but learn to respect it also..................we are citizens of the usa but we are always strangers to this land..........theres so much bigotry and ignorance that word has nothing to do with blacks ,because a ***** can be anybody of any race or creed...........LET MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE .WE ARE STRONG AND AS A PEOPLE WE ALWAYS PREVAIL,THAT IS A SURVIVAL INSTICT AND WE HAD OVER 3 CENTURIES TO PERFECT IT..........................SO BEFORE YOU CALL YOURSELF OR ANOTHETR HUMAN BEING A ***** YOU ARE THE SHAME YOU ARE THE CANCER WHICH WE LOVE TO IRRADICATE



word really has nothing to do with afroamericans..........................the worst bigot is the blackman who calls another blackman a *****...everytiome we use this words to insult ,hurt and degrade our people we as a people still catching hell after 300 yrs.............it makes dr king work and effords go to shame...................its insulting,embarrassing and plain down mean.......................LET MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE,YOU DONT BRING NO SHAME ON OUR PEOPLE WE WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL WE ALWAYS SEEM TO DO...................................

Answer 2

I think that white people are more afraid to be called racist and have some "heavy conscience" to all the history of slavery. As such, we fell shocked when a word like niga comes from an african person. It is not only in English that this happens. In my native language we also have an equivalent to "niga" that we (caucasians) avoid to use. Before, I avoided to use this term, but for several times I was confronted with africans refering to others as the equivalent to "******" In fact, the last time that I had dinner with some African people, they finished the dinner telling each other racists jokes...Now, I use it without any problem...
Weird, unh??

Answer 3

Once a niga always a niga. They want the world to remember that

Answer 4

are u a niga ?
if not why u wonder how we call each other ,

Answer 5

no onyxa girl it is not for fun, they do it becuase they think they have "taken back the name" and turned it around from being something bad but it still has the same ignorant meanining. i personally dont use the word and i always encourage my friends not to but some people have different views on the matter.

Answer 6

Because they don't have any common sense. If I white person tried to call them that name, they'd raise hell.

Answer 7

I wonder the same thing and never quite figured it out yet.

Answer 8

I used to call my friend 'my honky'. We're both white. I think 'honky' came about cause white people played bag-pipes at funerals.

Answer 9

I don`t no but i have always thought it odd. I never call my friends whitey or Euro

Answer 10

low self esteem.do you think condi rice,collin powell,or jesse jackson use that word?