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Originally Posted by Shady
When it comes to the word "nigger", it comes down to this. Whether you are using it in a racist way or not. When black people call each other "nigger" they are using it in a friendly way. Sometimes they use it as how others may say "man", or "dude", or "dawg", or "bro", or however many people say. For example I will say "Hey man, hows it goin. Accept they substitute it with "nigger". In my opinion it is only racist if you use it in a racist way like Kramer did. The majority of the time white people say "nigger" its in a racist way which is why whenever a white guy says that controversy breaks loose. I have black friends and I say "nigger" sometimes and it doesn't bother them at all because I do not use it in a racist way. It all depends on how you use it and what context you use it in.
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i'm seeing a change in this - at least where i live ..
maybe because of chris rock - or maybe Chris Rock is echoing the changing mentality.
my friend uses that word the way chris rock does ..
a 'nigger' is someone who would rob you at an ATM. A 'class' of person who fucks things up for eveyone else. someone who enjoys his ignorance - 'keeping it real'
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a black person: someone who responsibly takes care of his business. a solid citizen.
as far as black people using it - check out what Lenny Bruce had to say about it :
Are there any niggers here tonight? Could you turn on the house lights, please, and could the waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what did he say? "Are there any niggers here tonight?" I know there's one nigger, because I see him back there working. Let's see, there's two niggers. And between those two niggers sits a kike. And there's another kike— that's two kikes and three niggers. And there's a spic. Right? Hmm? There's another spic. Ooh, there's a wop; there's a polack; and, oh, a couple of greaseballs. And there's three lace-curtain Irish micks. And there's one, hip, thick, hunky, funky, boogie. Boogie boogie. Mm-hmm. I got three kikes here, do I hear five kikes? I got five kikes, do I hear six spics, I got six spics, do I hear seven niggers? I got seven niggers. Sold American. I pass with seven niggers, six spics, five micks, four kikes, three guineas, and one wop. Well, I was just trying to make a point, and that is that it's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. Dig: if President Kennedy would just go on television, and say, "I would like to introduce you to all the niggers in my cabinet," and if he'd just say "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" to every nigger he saw, "boogie boogie boogie boogie boogie," "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" 'til nigger didn't mean anything anymore, then you could never make some six-year-old black kid cry because somebody called him a nigger at school