Love Life Utopia

2y

You gotta call it out because it will wake that person up to their ignorance and bullshit statement of “well I didn’t mean it like that.” The meaning doesn’t change just because you aren’t using it derogatorily.

It is up to us to call it out EVERY TIME no matter who it is or where it is because it has become too desensitized. That is NOT OKAY for someone to feel comfortable saying that or any other slurs against a specific community, even if they “don’t mean it like that.”
Do not feel awkward for challenging someone’s ignorance. They will ALWAYS look like a fool and you are not overreacting. F*** them if they think that

Squilliam

2y

I’m not black, but I also have non black friends that say it around black friends and it’s never been an issue. (They don’t say it around strangers only this friend group)

I haven’t said it in years personally but I grew up in a very diverse part of Brooklyn where it was normalized.

I stopped saying it because I have a really strong love for the black community and everything they did for me.

BlackStreetMayor

2y

The time someone spends arguing over the n word can be used towards accomplishing your goals.

I’ve heard various non black people say the n word. Do I react? In my head I say ok. But why would I spend my time confronting someone over a word they’re going to say anyway? That time could be used to securing future wealth, generational, wealth, and economic freedom.

Talk to me about them gas prices

Talk to me about the last time you laid your mothers and grandmothers rent

Talk to me about how you are maintaining a positive head space and focusing your attention to the closest ones around you

Talk to me about LIVING LIFE

PARTY Gets Me Wetr

2y

Black people call other races extremely derogatory names and get away with. We make jokes about them on the daily and get away with it.

PARTY Gets Me Wetr

2y

What we need to do is stop acting like we care about our fellow black man if all we do is kill and rob one another.

As a black man I’m more worried about my own skin tone harming me than anyone else since you wanna talk about being black is exhausting

Nuja

2y

When I was younger, I didn’t care when it was people who grew up around the environment. General rule of thumb was suburban white boys/girls were the only ones who go checked or anyone who used it in a racist way. When I say younger I’m talking ignorant teenager. Around 20 I started realizing how problematic giving people a “pass” is. Anyone I know who uses the word and isn’t black period gets checked. If they still use it then we aren’t cool anymore plain and simple.

Don’t let Twitter fingers fool you though. None of them are knocking anyone out for casually saying nigga. They just get on Twitter to complain about people using the N word casually. It’s not much you can do about it that won’t land you in a jail cell except cutting people out of your life who don’t see a problem with it

allmygirlsdoyoga

2y

Coon ass nigga

BlackStreetMayor

2y

The time someone spends arguing over the n word can be used towards accomplishing your goals.

I’ve heard various non black people say the n word. Do I react? In my head I say ok. But why would I spend my time confronting someone over a word they’re going to say anyway? That time could be used to securing future wealth, generational, wealth, and economic freedom.

Talk to me about them gas prices

Talk to me about the last time you laid your mothers and grandmothers rent

Talk to me about how you are maintaining a positive head space and focusing your attention to the closest ones around you

Talk to me about LIVING LIFE

rustcohlestan

2y

in texas too lol

Maartins

2y

I swear ive seen u in fashiom sxn and you’re black

nogoodmyles

2y

“new generation of blacks” ok buddy

black people as a collective rarely use nigga in a negative connotation. it’s no reason black youths or black people in general shouldn’t be able to use a word they took back and gave a new energy too, specifically Americans.

but I can understand some of our people feeling away about it, which is why I still support the idea of not using it and anybody going that route.

BlackStreetMayor

2y

The time someone spends arguing over the n word can be used towards accomplishing your goals.

I’ve heard various non black people say the n word. Do I react? In my head I say ok. But why would I spend my time confronting someone over a word they’re going to say anyway? That time could be used to securing future wealth, generational, wealth, and economic freedom.

Talk to me about them gas prices

Talk to me about the last time you laid your mothers and grandmothers rent

Talk to me about how you are maintaining a positive head space and focusing your attention to the closest ones around you

Talk to me about LIVING LIFE

amory

2y

tbh i don’t remember if i’ve ever heard hard r in the wild outside of an educational setting (which even then would be pretty annoying)

but esp being in nyc u hear mad ppl say it that it’s kinda desensitized like

feel like the standards got higher past decade tbh

my policy is if it feels right it feels right if it don’t it don’t

i dont gotta clown a white boy using it because he lookin stupid himself

but idk, others may disagree with this approach

ProhibitionDev

2y

Nah, I was joshin with that one, though I really do wish we as a collective would find the discipline to stop saying it instead of being intellectually dishonest with ourselves using a slur, no matter how much of a "term of endearment", it still is a hypocritical thing to get mad if others use it if you use it yourself. Yea, "context" is cool and all, but the fact is you will not win an argument with a non black person who uses it if they've seen you say it or use it before.

nogoodmyles

2y

that’s not true at all

that’s the whole point of the idea of taking the word back. and it’s a real simple concept, i don’t get why it’s even an argument in the first place.

only black people were and are still negatively effected by being called the n word. a white person not gonna get in an argument with another white person or hispanic person and call them that. you can swap that equation out with any group of people that’s not black and it’ll be true.

everybody knows the history. so just because black people, the only people negatively effected by it, decided it’s ok for us to refer to each other as a hybrid of that, doesn’t mean everyone can just start throwing it around and not expect negative reactions.

you can argue it’s hypocritical, and by definition it is, but I think at that point you’d have to ask yourself why are you so pressed to say a word that you don’t need to say and people clearly don’t want you doing.