why I can say it…and you can’t…

7/18/08

See…

nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger

*glares at you and dares you to*

*notes your silence*

That’s what I thought.

White people know exactly why they can’t say it while black people are allowed to yell it from any and all mountain tops as it ever so pleases them.
…but they just loooooooove to play it silly on the simple.

Look…I’m “down” [for lack of a hipper word] and you aren’t.

["down", in this case, is synonymous with "black" but in some rare cases may include individuals of other ethnicities. ...but even more rarely includes white people. nope...not even Eminem. ...actually...especially not Eminem.]

1.) I agree with Whoopi. Black people have taken a word that has been used to degrade, hate, and distinguish us for so long…and we now have declared to other races, “this is my word and you can no longer use it to piss me off…and it’s going to make you cry and whine on national television because you can’t have it…”

I noticed there was a quick burst of laughter when Whoopi asked Elizabeth [the white woman who isn't Martha Stewart¹] why, if she claims she would never say it, she insisted on debating it. I’ve always wondered this same thing about these people. This phenomenon really just baffles me. …just leave it alone then.

Anyhoot…

I think Sheri [the black woman who isn't Whoopi] was trying to touch on the why when she went on about black family:

2.) You can’t say it because you, in your un-downness, are incapable of removing the connotative blackness from the word nigger…and yes, even his cousin “nigga.” ..and there is a difference.

[I haven't met a black person to this day who pronounces the "er" ...unless they're imitating someone who isn't black. See how that works?]

Unlike the word down, the word nigger is not synonymous with the word black.

When I use nigger, which is actually pretty rare, it has absolutely nothing to do with the color of the subject’s skin but, yes…the content of his character. eh…or just his being there.

But not his skin.

example:

I’m driving and, in all of my impatience, I am rather pissed that this heavy, balding, white man on his cell phone in front of me is walking…[rather lagging. I mean...really moseying] across the street, oblivious to the fact that his little red hand signal has long ago ceased its flashing and my light is now green…meaning I should be pressing forward towards my destination. In frustration, I may cry out something like:

“Man, this nigga needs to move the fuck on.” or…
“Man, what the fuck is this nigga doing?” or…
“Damn, Nigga. What the fuck, man? Shit.”

I google imaged “road rage” and found this before I found a black person.
Cat privilege at its finest.

Nigger is usually only present in the typical white person’s vocabulary when a black person is on the mind or around…and hardly ever when there’s is no brown to be found…and therein lies the problem…
and therein lies the reason white people should just shut the fuck up about it. It no longer has anything to do with you. You’re privileges [in this case] have been revoked.

anyway

I entered the debate with a cohort of mine once. He almost said nigger. Almost…like the n and i came out…but he knew what was up with that g. Then he goes, “Well, you just said it, Why can’t I?”

That would be like being repeatedly stabbed at by a person…getting sliced in the arms and legs while you try to get away…then getting tired of the running and the bullshit so you fight back…then you’re stabber starts to ease up out of weakness…and then out moral consciousness starts to realize “hey maybe I shouldn’t be stabbing this person for no reason but greed and malice.”…and during their wonderments of ethics and righteousness you grab the knife from them and put it in your pocket…you know, just to stop that annoying stabbing and lashing…you’re not even stabbing them back or anything…but then, they’re like…”If you can have the knife, why can’t I have the knife?” smh.

Some might say we should throw the knife away or, if you’re the NAACP, bury it. <-pointless pseudo-activist symbolism. But since the word nigger isn’t an actual concrete object, trying to destroy it is a pretty fucking retarded idea.

Some might say that using the word nigger is the equivalent of turning the knife around and stabbing ourselves repeatedly. Eh. could be. But I say it’s like…whipping it around like a samurai sword when necessary and looking totally awesome and  exclusive…yet…a little silly.

Ninja, please!

eh.

As for black rappers and comedians who throw it betwixt every other phrase…
I do not feel you.
…and I don’t see it as a term of endearment.
It’s more masculine connotation may be the reason I don’t get the whole…”My niggas” “My dogs” thing.

*shrugs* as long as the caucasoid ain’t using it.

¹Apparently, all old white women are the same to me since, clearly, that’ is NOT Martha Stewart…but indeed Barbara Walters. lol.