the "N-Word"?

Question

rap is poetry
so i think it is ok to use any word that you want, but who uses this word in everyday conversation?, and does anyone know what it really means, and if you use it, why can olny the black skinned use the word, when anyone else says it there tends to be the same response with everyone "what did you just say ni***" i just dont understand.

Answer 1

well that kinda bad but tell him its not right or ask him y he says it when it dosnt make sense

Answer 2

You asked the question, you want the information, know listen up and absorb it. Please don't be offended by the things that I say because I am a black woman who has researched my history for years, so here it is:
The N-Word happens to be the most offensive word in the English language. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. The N-Word simply means {Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.}
a. a black person.
b. a member of any dark-skinned people.
A person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc. A victim of prejudice; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised.
A lot of why this is such a big deal is because in the early 1700s, a group of Europeans made their way over to Africa to steal their resources like rubber amongst other things. The Europeans took the rubber and a couple of other resources to America along with a multitude of African people, tortured them aboard their ships, and made these people their slaves. Now generations after this African Americans were still getting mistreated in America and still are but anyway . . .
Black people use the term N-word with an 'a' at the end instead of what was referred to us in or by hatred with the 'er'. When a black person ends it with an 'a' it takes on a whole nother meaning. Tupac Shakur changed that and made it positive: Not Ignorant Gettin' Goals Accomplished.
Only black people can use it because it began from white people something out of hatred, so when a white person uses it we think back to when it all began. The N-Word has more meanings from different origins. Malcolm X tried to teach black people this.
The next time you want to know something you need to do more research of all the black leaders, where and how this word began, etc.

Answer 3

When I heard my father say the N-word back in the 60's, I knew he was wrong. I began seeing him as a person who felt fear, low self esteem, and a person who misunderstood his religion.

In any other case, if religion is too lofty of a word, insert "values". The name, in general, is used to dehumanize the person that it is directed at. The N-word has such a humongous history of being associated with hatred that it is hard for me to see it any other way.

Answer 4

you never will. Although they can turn it around on SOME white people. I don't care who it is, i dont like being called cracker. It's weird and negative. Maybe some feel the same way. All i can say is, watch what you say, because there have been plenty (more than ever needed) lawsuits about a white person calling a black person N-.

Answer 5

There is no one answer to your question, but my guess would be that white skinned people are the one who gave us that degrading name, so it is degrading still when they say it. I agree that rap is poetry, but the way that they use the n word in rap is not pertaining to what it really means, so who knows why they use it, me personally I do not like to use it.

Answer 6

It's is prefectly acceptable to say the "n-word" as long as you don't use it in a racist tone. Dave Chapelle uses it all the time and I don't hear the NAACP complaining but when a white guy says it (even in a non-racist tone), there's hell to pay. It's such a double standard. African-Americans want to be treated equally right? Then everyone should be able to say it or no one should.

Answer 7

I would think the N-word sounds like one is being cussed at or really put down. No one like to feel that kind of rejection. Sometimes it is not the words but how they come out of our mouths.

Answer 8

i have friends off all races and its cool.. to me if u dont trip off the word like that as degrading.... i;m bigger than that... your not hurting me..... because i feel its wrong.. how j.lo cant say it.. but fat joe can say it all the time in his rap and no one cares but when she said it in one of her songs... the media had a prob... both of them are not black, so how is right for one and not the otha... u be the judge.....

Answer 9

eminem never says it and i want to be just like him!

you get the good jobs and the safe neighborhoods, let them have their word and stop complaining.

Answer 10

watch Bamboozled if you don't want to read about it.