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This is why you should never meet an Angry Black Woman...please, do not get offended. This is what runs through my mind for 3 seconds after I hear that word... [464 words]
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I am an artist living in NYC...most of my writing is for performance/spoken word, so keep that in mind as you read my work. [April 2009]
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That Word (Uncut) Jina Kaye
George Carlin ain’t got shit on this,
God Bless his Soul
But those seven words that can’t be said on tv
Could never compare to this one:
NIGGER
Yeah, I said it…
NIGGER
I can spell it too!
N-I-G-G-E-R
The crux of this word
NIGGER
Anybody can call me one and I can’t do shit about it.
I hear these people around me saying it: black, brown, yellow, pink and white.
How dare you call me that word?
I don’t care if you are black.
That’s like women calling each other bitches:
It’s catty, it’s stupid…and it could get you killed.
Don’t you ever call me that word.
Really, you think it’s absurd to get offended because you think I’m a coon, I’m ig’nant, I’m hood, “ghetto,” and up to no good?! No, sir, I am no nigger. No, sir, I am no slave. No, sire, I am not your whore. No, sir, it’s NOT okay to say that word.
Freedom on expression can kiss my ass. Go ahead and use that excuse. Justify it so you can sell those records. But don’t say shit when others emulate. After all, it’s their freedom of expression.
Oh, yes, let’s not forget Boricua who claim to have faced the same pain—but I don’t remember Puerto Rico going through 300 plus years of slavery and fighting 50 plus years of separate, yet equal. I’ve never seen Boricua hanging from a noose, with his balls cut off and stuffed in his mouth just because he smiled at some white lady.
And don’t push me about Peruvians. I almost smacked this chick for calling me that word. She asked, what’s your problem…I’m black too! Half, I answered, and not even American. It’s not you facing the shame of being a product of a white man’s whore. It’s not you carrying the burden of being female and black, being tugged on both sides, while being accepted by neither. It’s not you who has to fight every fucking stereotype in your life. So no, bitch, don’t call me that word or I’ll slap the “black” right out of your life.
Nigger, nigga, N-word, whateva!
I don’t like it, never liked it, and I’m not having it. I don’t care who you are, you’ll never convince me to like that word. Ain’t no difference between “nigger” and “nigga,” but which North or South you coming from. Y’all East Coasters can kiss my ass, too. I’m Midwestern and seen how “niggas” get killed. Oh yeah, he’s your friend, your boy, your homey, your “nigga”—but once he fucks your girl or takes your shit, he’s your enemy, your nemesis, your rival, but still a “nigga.” So don’t give me that sorry excuse that he’s your boy and smack.
Don’t call me that
Or you’ll get smacked.
You don’t know me well enough.
I know this sounds violent and I don’t mean to be.
This is how I feel when you say
That word.
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"Well said!" -- colleen, lucerne, in, usa.
"I never really understood why if ya'll don't like, then why ya gotta shout it out at each other!!! " -- mat.
"To respond to Mat: Some people see it as a way of reclaiming the meaning of the word, turning it around to mean something else. That is why I wrote the last paragraph. I am originally from Indiana and I know my people never go around saying that word to each other. Hearing "nigga" everywhere in NYC (from every walk of life) kind of made me realize where I was living and how could people not realize that we, as Black people, did not come up with that word for ourselves." -- Jina, New York, NY.
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