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I love this poem.... This is soo true. Why would anyone want to be a part of something that has a negative connotation where its origin? We sometimes forget where we came from and what we have been through as a people. It's now 2007. If the Jena 6 is not evident enough, we truly don't know who we are.
had to rewind this shit 50 times to understand that exlusive sh!t.... but in the end you can't help but to bob your head in agreement. He was saying what needed to be said... The Truth
It is so amazing... the controversy over one little word... I'm black, and from a black country in the wester diaspora (This means we are African in origin too), and this word is so unimportant and insignifican. African Americans must have sUch a Black-experience!!
I love this poem..It's the truth what he is saying..some people think it's cool to use the N word when it's not..I stopped using the word when I sat back and realized I was degrading myself and other black people...Thank you Dahlak Brathwaite..
Dahlak,,,, Great show, Way to go kid, keep it coming. PS: Who ever gave you that first name had to be very proud of his roots. I love your name for I know what it represents.
Maybe, but the extent to which women have traditionally been excluded from any rights or power in many societies is not something to sneer at. Depending on the social or work situation, I have to watch out for being treated like crap for being black or for being a woman, so preventing mistreatment from either direction is VERY important to me. Don't belittle one struggle to boost another.
@fckliberalS7 Fact: After the civil rights act durning the 1950's instead of being overtly racist it changed to a subtle racism with the belief that African-Americans were lazy, and that they( being African-Americans) needed to pull themselves by their "boot straps" which in actuality is much more difficult than it sounds. Regardless of how "equal" we claim America is,there is wealth distribution gap is spread wide between African-Americans and European Americans. Since wealth builds over time
its arabic its the reply to the typical greeting of salaam malekum and means peace also upon you! Malcolm said it because he was a member of the nation then a muslim
"Why isn't race a moot point yet? It was for me a long time ago" race isn't because everyone doesn't think like you unfortunately and if you are a person that accepts all people and acknowledges the advantages the you may receive because of your race then you are not included in that obvious generalization...so don't take it to heart, just like me as a black person, i have to understand that all the negative stereotypes portrayed by the media everyday isn't what we are as people...
A word used to exclude, is now exclusivly used by the excluded and with it, excluding it's original excluders,who use the slang to now get inclusion into the group of which their group wanted to be removed from... american politics, erase the complication and confusion....
To be honest it really don't matter to me. I just don't like how other black people allow non black people to call them that. But I don't like anybody to call me a nigga. Black or not. Because it's always been a negative term.
at Miss160588 he's basically sayin bein a "nigga" aint cool or whateva... like bein a nigga represents everything wrong about black people but people (mainly reffering to non-blacks) use the word as if its a free pass to be cool or whateva i kno that explanation sucked, but u kinda get where im coming from??
"I'm not racist but" ...if you ever have to preface anything you say with that then you feel that what you are about to say is something that a racist would say. But that's not why I'm responding. People love to say oh Black people just want a welfare check they're lazy they need a job. Get your facts straight because 1st of all to even get a welfare check you have to ALREADY have a job. The check isn't meant to nor does it have the ability to sustain it is only meant to assist.
My friends who are white always ask me why they can't say the" N" word and I don't really give them an answer. I just tell them to think about it. I don't understand why they (my friends) want to say it. They seem so troubled because they can't. Again, I really don't understand. I mean...just don't say it! Right??? Can we start there... maybe?
A word used to exclude is now exclusevily used by the excluded. And with it excluding it's original exclutus. Who use the slang to now gain inclusion. Into the group of which that group wanted to be removed from. American politics of race. Complicated and Confusion.
everything is poetry. your intelligence is meaningless, and instead is lost in egotistical understanding of the world that has translated into division. all things have no bounds, and you live within the stars instead of the darkness of space that makes up most of the universe. you rather shine like a star than know the whole galaxy. a poet makes all things a poem. an artist turns the world into an artform. a fool divides, concludes, and moves ignorantly. choose your posisition...
man that was seriously legit. he makes A LOT of really good points about society today and the use of the n-word. thanks to H34RTL3SSINS4N3 for typing up all the words :)
@fckliberalS7 Your great great "something" (as you so eloquently put it) put his own life on the line through choice, The African's brought over to the USA. were not afforded the same courtesy and were forced to work for no pay. I am hoping you see the difference, I am somehow doubting it though.
does it matter if what hes saying is the truth...I'm not ghetto at all put I can speak some truth based off what I see and hear in my own community I live surrounded my ghetto people...well off or not any black person can have something to say including other races
I think its completely wrong. But I also think black people saying that word is completely wrong to. Because the most of the black people saying it are ignorant to its meaning.
'I don't really see how I benefit from slavery', really? You're caucasion but not from the States, fine. But which caucasion cultures are you descended from that didn't use black slave labor to fill up their coffers?
