calling black people nigga

[SCOTTYO]

You have to remember that ingnorant white people that could not say the word negro are the ones who stated the whole mess. Blacks have been called it so much that we think its our name. After so many years we just changed it to mean a good thing. it still is a bad term but where dealing with it. [/i]

[piruluv247]

iz just another word forthe goverment to call allits ppl

[John]

To say that "Nigga"...is a contraction of Negro is wrong...someone didn't do their homework..at all. Nigeria..black people..Niger..meaning black..the term "Nigger" was a slang usage..when black people were assimilated into this culture, they used the word to describe themselves, as they were told it ~~told "who they were"..often they were called "Nig-rah" or "darkie" or colored...but to say that Nigga came from Negro..it didn't. I believe the terms is indigenous to the modern street slang of the inner city blacks, really...said with pride, just as a "southern" redneck white person (whatever that is...?) uses the phrase, "It don't make no never mind"...they know they are not speaking proper English, that's the point..it is a way to bring about a rebellious nature to the voice and the sound of the word..Just as a black person uses the term, and not all do of course, by any means..."Yo Mama".. a degrading, confrotational term..that was NOT introduced by white people, it was introduced by their own people, in their subculture... My opinion? Everyone can use it, or no on can use it. This is America. Not Black America, and it is not White America...equality means equal..not slanted and not patronizing something that is at best trashy from the beginning, isn't it?

[wcrockets]

I've had black friends forget I was white at a block party and call me nigger like any of their other friends. I always thought it was pretty funny. I guess it's about who is using the word and why they are using it.

[Snowman]

The few hispanics (mostly from el Salvador) that were in my school (my school was mostly black) used to call eachother and the black kids 'nigga' all the time. Over here you very rarely actually here a black guy call another black guy 'nigga' unless it's an insult. Most of the people over here who use the word are white kids in black neighbourhoods 'trying to fit in'.

Mosty of the rap CDs that I have who have hispanic rappers like Big Pun, Mr. Rob, Lil One, Cypress Hill, Kid Frost etc. use the word nigga all the time. B-Real from Cypress Hill is Cuban and has really pale skin but buses the word all the time.

I think it should be just as unnacceptable for Latino people to use the word as it is for whites.

The word itself isn't that bad but it's overused. Often you get poor white dudes reffering to themselves jokily as white trash, white working class scum or rednecks, but if a rich white dude was to use that word to them they would get a smack in the mouth, so in the same way that only white people should be able to use words like 'white trash', only black guys should be able to say 'nigga'.

[omack]

I read an interview with Snoop where he said he started saying nephew to replace nigga. But he still uses it. CASPER or anybody from LB, you know about this? Is nephew just another term of endearment besides cousin?

[bgcasper]

no nephew is used when a crip nigga from an older generation is checcin a younger homeboy , i'm a bg and i would call an infant from my set nephew,but they don't like it ...

[sexy365]

white people called us that to bring us down, make us seem like nothing, and to rob us of our real identity. nigga is something that blacks use to each other as a good term, but when whites use it it's usually to say that were nothing. negro in spanish means black, and nigger is an ignorant person, they all have there correct meanings but in this day n time it reall all depends on how someone uses it. what do you really mean when you call me a nigga? i'm a friend, enemy, or a slave?

[wcrockets]

Thurmond's Son Acknowledges Woman's Claim
Tue Dec 16, 1:28 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!


By AMY GEIER EDGAR, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The oldest son of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond says he is ready to meet the mixed-race half sister whose relationship to the family his father, a onetime segregationist, had kept secret for nearly eight decades.


Strom Thurmond Jr., the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, says his family will not contest the claim of Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a 78-year-old retired teacher living in Los Angeles.


Williams says Thurmond fathered her when he was 22 and living in his parents' home in Edgefield. Her mother, Carrie Butler, 16 at the time, worked as a maid in the Thurmonds' home.


"We have no reason to believe Ms. Williams was not telling the truth," Strom Thurmond Jr. told The (Columbia) State for a story in Tuesday's editions. "Everyone has a right to know their heritage."


Thurmond Jr. said he was looking forward to meeting the retired schoolteacher and establishing a relationship, but plans to do that in private.


"As far as emotions or how I feel, I feel good, because that's a feeling you get from doing the right thing," Thurmond Jr. said.


Williams had long been rumored to be Thurmond's child, though she previously denied it. She has come forward now at the urging of her children, said Frank K. Wheaton, Williams' attorney in California.


"She waited until after his passing because she had such a profound love and respect for her father and so did he for her ... they both shared a mutual respect that raised the bar of integrity, as we generally know it," Wheaton said Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."


He said Williams was not seeking money and did not want to challenge Thurmond's will. Thurmond died in June at age 100.


"This case was never about money, much to the surprise of many. Essie Mae Washington-Williams merely wanted validation, acknowledgment, so that she could bring finality and closure to her life. She wanted this for her children and their children and their children," Wheaton said.


The family doesn't know much about Williams, Thurmond Jr. said.


"I had a conversation with my dad about it about 10 years ago. I asked about this, and he didn't tell me whether she was or whether she wasn't (his daughter)," he said. "I did not ask again."


Thurmond Jr. and other family members didn't return several phone calls from The Associated Press on Monday.


Earlier Monday, Thurmond's family released a statement acknowledging Williams' claims.


"As J. Strom Thurmond has passed away and cannot speak for himself, the Thurmond family acknowledges Ms. Essie Mae Washington-Williams' claim to her heritage. We hope this acknowledgment will bring closure for Ms. Williams," the family's lawyer, J. Mark Taylor, said.


Williams said Thurmond privately acknowledged her as his daughter and had provided financial support since 1941. She said she waited to go public because she didn't want to embarrass herself or hurt Thurmond's career. The Washington Post first reported her claims Saturday.


"There was an agreement between the parties that she would never discuss the fact that Senator Thurmond was her father," said her South Carolina lawyer, Glenn Walters.





In seven decades of politics, Thurmond gained fame and infamy as an arch-segregationist, but he later came to support a holiday for slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King.

Raised by an aunt, Williams told the Post she first met Thurmond around 1941, when she was 16, and Thurmond called her a "very lovely daughter."

She told the newspaper she received money at least once a year in sessions arranged by Thurmond's Senate staff. Wheaton said the total over the years was "very substantial" but less than $1 million.

Williams was to discuss her story at a news conference Wednesday in Columbia, but one of her sons, Dr. Ronald Williams of Onalaska, Wash., told The State he will tell her it would be better to meet privately with the Thurmond family than talk to the media.

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[mickgreen58]

Yeah, wcrockets, I heard about Senator Thurmonds black daughter a while back. Most people knew about it, but just kind of never talked about it. The guy was nothing but a hypocrite and a racist.

- Mike G.

[sexy365]

u right

[kyh]

I've had black friends forget I was white at a block party and call me nigger like any of their other friends. I always thought it was pretty funny. I guess it's about who is using the word and why they are using it.

Yea I have the same thing happen to me all the time. I dont think n e thing bout it because I hear the word all day every day round the homies so Im just use to it. But I dont believe anybody should use the word in any sense.

[Angryblackman86]

NONNE OF MY WHITE FRIENDS R ALLOWED TO USE IT AROUN ME NOT EVEN MY LATINO HOMIES NEITHER1!!!

[BlaKK]

That's some funny shit, I remember this thread from my thirf period in High School, Like 3 fuckinn years ago... Anyways nigga nah none of my homies use the word around me unless there black, They already know precisely wus good.

[BlaKK]

Yup this thread was made on June 7 2003, that's the same day I graduated, 3 years ago...

[SniperSVD]

ive got a good idea, lets make it an elite term only to be used by members of the black race, justify it and make the word once used to degrade a culture, a term of friendship, my best buddy, my nigga.

[Christina Marie]

I dont think this word should be used by anyone at anytime.

[SniperSVD]

I dont think this word should be used by anyone at anytime.

there have been a number of times where i have had to check one of my guys for being ignorant and saying the 'word' down town and places. should i woop his ass over it? if i hear a black guy say it should i check him? im almost always in a possition of power, i had some friends out on the west side who came at me one day, i had never said it befor around them,, but they started talking to me about stuff, not directly about the word. then slowly sure enough i figured out what they were talking about. then i said it with a quizical look on my face, the room broke out with laughter.
with that, we need to respect peoples oppinion, if im chillen with Blakk and i hear him saying it, its cool with him and all saying it, then i say it and get jumped over it.. thats a double standard. lead by example.

[NICKELS]

NONNE OF MY WHITE FRIENDS R ALLOWED TO USE IT AROUN ME NOT EVEN MY LATINO HOMIES NEITHER1!!!

same here homie , every time a latino says it i call him spic , then he understands ....you got your own insulting names for your people use it !!stop copying the way black people talk to each other. its not flattering

[UmanH-ay]

NONNE OF MY WHITE FRIENDS R ALLOWED TO USE IT AROUN ME NOT EVEN MY LATINO HOMIES NEITHER1!!!

same here homie , every time a latino says it i call him spic , then he understands ....you got your own insulting names for your people use it !!stop copying the way black people talk to each other. its not flattering

You from NY right? its jus funny cos most blacks i know from the east is pretty cool with ricans usin it.

[SniperSVD]

NONNE OF MY WHITE FRIENDS R ALLOWED TO USE IT AROUN ME NOT EVEN MY LATINO HOMIES NEITHER1!!!

same here homie , every time a latino says it i call him spic , then he understands ....you got your own insulting names for your people use it !!stop copying the way black people talk to each other. its not flattering

omg i just spit up some froot loops... hahaha im not even eating cerial! hahaha lmao.

[Christina Marie]

I dont think this word should be used by anyone at anytime.

there have been a number of times where i have had to check one of my guys for being ignorant and saying the 'word' down town and places. should i woop his ass over it? if i hear a black guy say it should i check him? im almost always in a possition of power, i had some friends out on the west side who came at me one day, i had never said it befor around them,, but they started talking to me about stuff, not directly about the word. then slowly sure enough i figured out what they were talking about. then i said it with a quizical look on my face, the room broke out with laughter.
with that, we need to respect peoples oppinion, if im chillen with Blakk and i hear him saying it, its cool with him and all saying it, then i say it and get jumped over it.. thats a double standard. lead by example.

Hey...thats my feelings on it too. It doesnt really matter to me much, I dont use it so if they want to be calling each other that.....whatever.

[NICKELS]

when an italian calls another italian you dumb wop , that does not bother me and im not compelled to use it its not fad , its there thing amongst there people ...just like irish and mick , or jews and kike .....thats there personal joke or terms .........people really are into black people to much , to copy the way they speak.....music or no music ....and that b.s. about having a lot of black friends ..........

[blue eyed devil]

when an italian calls another italian you dumb wop , that does not bother me and im not compelled to use it its not fad , its there thing amongst there people ...just like irish and mick , or jews and kike .....thats there personal joke or terms .........people really are into black people to much , to copy the way they speak.....music or no music ....and that b.s. about having a lot of black friends ..........

Black people have kept the word going so to speak. Im sure if Black people stopped using it in Music, movies an general talk then other people would be less compelled to using the term. For example stop glamourising the word "nigga".....Because your the only group of people that have truly glamourised a derogatory term.

Your using a term that has a sinister background as a way of greeting an talking to one another. Wop, Wog, Pikey, Skip, Coconut, Abo, kike, mick an all them other harmless words dont have history unlike the term "nigger"

So if Black people dont like the term, dont use it yourselves. Show people that its not a playfull word an it wont get used..

Simple.