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HISTORY IN DA MAKING. WE HEAR THE WORD "NIGGER" EVERYDAY. AND THEY ALSO MAKE MOVIES ABOUT THIS RACIAL PROBLEM... SO WHY CAN'T A ARTIST MAKE A CD CALLED "NIGGER". IS THE WORD "NIGGER" STILL POWERFUL LIKE IT ONCE WAS? THE "NIGGER" CD IS A SOUNDTRACK TO ALL DA BLACK RACIAL MOVIES... BUY THAT NIGGER NAS CD!!! CREATE BY SMITTY ROBINSON
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17 responses // NAS "NIGGER" COMMERCIAL

  • The word only has the power it's given, within context. It's almost never the word itself as much as the context and more importantly, the intent.
    eldamon
  • Before i pass judgement on Nas's album, I would like to listen to it. As a fan and an intellectual person, I would not be offended if this album's title is appropriate for the messages he sends in each of the songs.

    But then again, Smitty Robinson, the way you used this word was not funny. Regardless of race, putting all humor aside, that was not appropriate. By saying what you said, that makes it ok to use it?
    Raven7
  • I'm so confused...
    bdphvb
  • i think its a damn word that's blown out of proportion. get over it already. its racist aspects are kept alive by your hatred. we've stopped caring, get over it.

    raven7 - why can't he use it? i hear african americans use it constantly. i hear africans use it all the time and they don't care because its meaningless to them. this shouldn't even be an article or something to be discussed or controversial. i can't use it because i'm white? bullshit. my grandpa grew up in the south, nigger meant black person. it didn't mean he was racist, it was just the word used to describe them. which has its roots that literally mean black. i think its a giant hypocrisy among society that pisses me off

    when it comes to this cd i'd buy it to burn it, literally, with flames. i can't stand that horrid music that does nothing but push immaturity and lack of respect
    diode
  • diode, i understand that you think that NIGGER is used to describe black people. Retracing your family's racist history is not an attempt to validate its use by your racist grandfather, i hope.

    Im not pretending that people i know are'nt using it, either. They do.

    iM NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH A HISTORY LESSON, but your confusion and misunderstanding with this word, the definition, and its history is someone else's problem.


    bdphvb, sorry for confusing you, but that was a reaction to what was said. Now that i read back.
    Raven7
  • I'm not black, but it still offends me to hear that word because I know about the hate and pain it represents. I don't care what color you are - it's an ugly word and by using it you're spreading more anger, fear and ugliness.
    patsarts
  • that was interesting and true
    knightlynight200
  • is this a trailer for a pod you're making? it uses copyrighted footage and doesn't make the point you want to make.
    redwells
  • raven, i'll tell you this right now, i have traced and studied this word because i have done in depth studies of the black history and its culture in the united states and in africa (black history month projects in high school paid off) i do not appreciate you calling my family racist when you have no idea whatsoever it seems, what you are talking about.

    it was a discriminatory word. times have changed and your people aren't in chains anymore. people need to learn from the past and move on and get over it. was slavery bad? racism bad? yes and yes. but theres just as much racism going the other way and i've dealt with that first hand on numerous accounts. blacks are not the only people to have been enslaved, nor are they the only ones to have a negative term(s) applied to them. if you did look into world history you would see this.

    why do old people still call brazil nuts nigger toes? because thats just what you called them back in that time period. take responsibility for yourselves and move on and stop blaming other people for what happened hundreds of years ago. if you (not you literally but figuratively) haven't been able to pull your acts together by now, which is not true because there are plenty of successful people who have accomplished great things in their lives, then its not something thats our fault, pull the plank out of your eyes before picking the speck of dust out of anothers.

    i'm going to clarify something right now as well. i am not a racist, i detest it in fact. this rant is on racism however and how its alive and well mainly in part to peoples hatred and not being able to move on. that does not mean one race or another but all of them who shun responsibility off onto somebody else

    let go of the hatred and move the frak on already
    diode
  • I cannot tell what the point of this "commercial" is. I am against the use of the word, after spending a lot of my undergraduate degree studying the slave trade and race/ethnic relations. But I am open to hearing what others think and feel as long as they can back it up.
    elisaveronica
  • Here's how I figure... the n-word has negative connotations, so why do we insist on using it on each other. Is there really no other intelligent way to express yourself?

    If it hurts feelings then it take a callous person to use it anyway - inspite of the root of the word, the hatred behind it. If black people do not want other races using the word then they should refrain from using the word! As far as I'm concerned any rapper who feels the need to degrade his race in order to show his "talent" is worthless. You must respect yourself if you want others to respect you - that simple.

    The African American man is not a "nigga" and the African American woman is not a "bitch" or "ho". However if we continue to say this of ourselves within the race then we shouldn't get pissed when there is another Imus incident.
    addicted2tv
  • blacks use the woord to each other all the time..get over it
    aace99
  • I think it's a shame, and quite saddening, such a hate word has become common colloquial language. But having said that, it seems to have taken on an air of racial identity rather than racial hatred, particularly in popular African/American culture. Do I have a problem with it - no, not particularly, as long as it's context isn't steeped in bigotry.
    StrangeConversation
  • addicted2tv - you said it perfectly
    diode
  • I'm Irish (aka 'Mick"), My best friend is Italian (Wop) and Spanish (Spick) - and the Polish were Polak's (?), and so on. Those hurtfl titles are rarely heard any more (thank goodness) - so why is the N word still used? The Afrcan American's use it and keep it alive that's why. Why? Where's your respect for each other and your race?
    patsarts
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  • what is the world comming 2
    tjflywheel81

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