Stupid N-word excuses
I am so sick of the stupid-ass excuse I keep hearing that we (Black people) use the word "nigga" in order to take the sting and/or hatred out of it. Bullsh**. Why? Because, as much as we use it, as soon as we hear a White person use it, that sting is still there and still painful as hell. Quite simply, we use the word because of the same reasons we used to conk our hair and why we still straighten it or use extentions: imitation of white culture thru racist stigmatization. Don't believe me? Kiri Davis in 2005 re-did the 1940 Clark study about black/white doll preference...same sad results: thinking lighter skin is "better"... We got called "nigger" so much, we simply began to use it ourselves. Saying "nigga" instead of "nigger" is simply a matter of ebonics. Nothing more, nothing less. We need to stop fooling ourselves...