Hilarious, and TRUE. Indeed use it in association with positive things that are not even associated with skin color at all. maybe it can be an adjective indicating powerful, smart, or fashionably dressed. too funny!
Hilarious, and TRUE. Indeed use it in association with positive things that are not even associated with skin color at all. maybe it can be an adjective indicating powerful, smart, or fashionably dressed. too funny!
Ah, but we can't all do that. It's for those young people of color to do that, and they already are, gangbusters. You have no idea how that word was flying high when I had a houseful of black teenagers a decade ago. Did you see that Dave Chapelle skit where the blind black KKK leader was at a stoplight next to a convertible with two young men playing rap music, loud. Of course, being blind couldn't see they were white. He gave them a huge lambast about their loud jungle music and called them that. One white kid turns to the other and says, "Did he just call us niggas?" The other returns the high five and exclaims, "Awesome!"
Linda, I agree. Still we are not yet really on our way. this word is very surprising to me. It is reviled but also OWNED by Blacks too. It is ok for a Black to use it in a way that invalidates its meaning, but a non-Black person CANNOT do this. They will be really attacked for it. It is reminiscent of the attacks one will get if one defames Mohammad. It is because the icon itself is a source of identity in both cases. (I think, but am not sure... it is quite far from my personal experience so I am like an alien trying to piece together what I am seeing :-) )
Hilarious, and TRUE. Indeed use it in association with positive things that are not even associated with skin color at all. maybe it can be an adjective indicating powerful, smart, or fashionably dressed. too funny!
Ah, but we can't all do that. It's for those young people of color to do that, and they already are, gangbusters. You have no idea how that word was flying high when I had a houseful of black teenagers a decade ago. Did you see that Dave Chapelle skit where the blind black KKK leader was at a stoplight next to a convertible with two young men playing rap music, loud. Of course, being blind couldn't see they were white. He gave them a huge lambast about their loud jungle music and called them that. One white kid turns to the other and says, "Did he just call us niggas?" The other returns the high five and exclaims, "Awesome!"
Dave knows what I'm talking about.
Linda, I agree. Still we are not yet really on our way. this word is very surprising to me. It is reviled but also OWNED by Blacks too. It is ok for a Black to use it in a way that invalidates its meaning, but a non-Black person CANNOT do this. They will be really attacked for it. It is reminiscent of the attacks one will get if one defames Mohammad. It is because the icon itself is a source of identity in both cases. (I think, but am not sure... it is quite far from my personal experience so I am like an alien trying to piece together what I am seeing :-) )