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Does a white person TRULY have the right to opinionate on how much a black person uses the word nigga/nigger/ or any other forms of the word?

Pistol presented this question to me while we were chillin on the block so I decided to bless his blog with my views on the word nigga and the white people surrounded by it who chose not or to use it. Now the option to use or not to use the word is completely up to the individual, but who are u to justify what is or isnt nessessary in regards to words coming out of someone else's mouth; wether that word be nigga or any other word in the english vocabulary.

"He went on to say how he doesnt like the word and wishes that it wouldn't be used, and he doesn't use the word." Well homeboy your white, so you damn right you SHOULDN,T be using it, but if you did use it, do I have the right to get offended? More on that later. We all have rights, and of course you have the right to not like the word, but you have NO right to criticize a black person who uses it often. Of course it was said how a white person could say nigga and black people have a problem with it but as soon as a spanish person uses it, its all good...you damn right its all good! Spanish people went thru and currently go thru their own strugle in this place we call America, and although their struggle was nothing like the blacks struggle, they still struggle, and that puts us at a certain understanding with one another as a group.

Now Im not speaking for all, because they are some white people who have black friends and those white boys are nigga'd out..nigga, nigga, nigga coming out they mouth all day..and what do their black friends do...nuthin, they say nuthin....but why.....because it's not that serious to some folks, its just a word. I kno a white dude who works in a black barber shop right now and every sentence out his mouth has nigga in it..so what..who cares, the world still spins and lives get lived, nothing comes to a haulting stop just because this white boy said nigga.

The word nigga/nigger has so much pain behind it that people these days cant let it go. Old people wanna classify the word as demeaning to the struggle and to what everything blacks fought for many years ago, they see it as a word that should be abolished from the english language and anyone who uses it is insensitive to all black people who came before them. Magazines do articles on the word, and TV shows dedicate episodes to it. If nigga aint in the conversation then nobodies talking.

Just because we use nigga doesn't mean were insensitive to our past, it doesn't mean that we dont appreciate the sacrifice and blood shed in the advancement of black rights in America, and it doesn't mean we dont understand the racisim that word holds...its been said time and time again, and I will state it once more, we simply took a word of hate and made it a word of love, a word of endearment.

We dont use it because we dont know what else to say, we use it because it's a word, we dont mean anything negative when using it, and we use it in the same context as "brother", "cat", "homie", "dude" etc. Now when the word is used negatively and to degrade, that's when we have a problem, and that's when we step in and say "hey, watch that usage or get your ass beat!" Now as far a white person stating what is too much usuage of the word, that's not your place to say, you can have your opinion but honestly that opinion holds no weight over here..Russell Simmons said "I own the word and all the suffering behind it" and I feel the same way, we (Black People) own that word and all the suffering behind it.

Can you relate to what WE went through and still go through today with facing racism? have you been discriminated against because the color of your skin or the part of town you grew up in? have you been profiled as "fitting the discription" just because your a black person in a white neighborhood?....I speak this because I've been through this..Its still alive yall..its just not as out in the open as it was during the civil rights era. So I'll use the word as much as I want, pay me no mind because it aint your dime to spend...let a black person tell me when Im sayin nigga too much..then I'll listen.

So you asked me if a white person have the right to opinionate on how much a black person uses the word nigga...my answer to that is "NIGGA PLEASE!!"

by. Dat Nigga Real