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Response to: Won't You Please Be My Nigga: Double Standards with a Taboo Word By Corey Washington for Streetgangs Magazine August 4, 2003 I read your article on the use of the word nigga and was enlightened and captivated. I wanted to chime in on your thoughts about j-lo. The reason Big-Pun, Fat-Joe, B-real from cypress hill, and a slew of other Hispanic rappers are not criticized for saying nigga in there raps is because they have street credibility. John Leguizamo probably could get away with saying nigga. Also these people that I mentioned have no problem referring to themselves as niggas. Can you see J-Lo referring to herself as a nigga?? She has pimped the ghetto. She not only broke up with Puff Daddy, but she has broke ties with her humble beginnings. She went from an Afro-American, to a Hispanic?(Chris Judd), to a lily white guy(Ben Affleck) She's free to date anyone she wants, but a person with no street credibility can not use the word nigga without receiving a backlash. I'm willing to wager that there would be a backlash if Bryant Gumbel used the word nigga. I think that is why she suffered so much criticism. Why would she want to use that word in a song that was supposedly Latin? I also think the reason Caucasians are upset is because they are angry that they can not use the word. To them, it is about if they cannot use the word, then "you' should not be able to either. We took a word that they used to degrade us and turned it around on them to be used as a term of endearment for us. As for Eminem, he grew up around all black people so I don't think of him using the word as a problem. I would not even be angry with President Clinton for using it but I would be very upset if President Un-Elect Bush used it. I don't know why that is but it just is. Marannia Faulk (marannia@yahoo.com) Newport News, VA Read Original Article News Topics | Home | Research | History | Blood Gangs | Crip Gangs | People| Life in a Gang | Gallery | Iraqi Cards | Memorial | Migration | Graffiti | Resume| Injunctions Homicides | Maps | California Prisons | Contact

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