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Originally Posted by BellaMocha

:uts on her flame hate retardant raincoat:::

I might get hurt for this later...but oh well.

We as black people are some strong curious intellegent people. Only we, as a people can take a name, that was meant to degrade us, defile us and humilate us, spin it around and make it a term of endearment.Negative turned positive. Some things dont' change..but other things do. If you dont' see things the way I do, doesn't make it wrong...its just a difference of opinions. Some people see the word N*gga and it means, my brother, my blood, my people. Other people hear the word N*gga and see ******. I see two very different words here. Its when we let this word defile us, degrade us and humilate us, is when this word becomes of its true essence...hate. In no way am I saying that its roots arn't vicious and vile...but we have a history and lets not continue to let that same evil from years and years ago still pull us down now.

PREACH!!!

I use the "n" word, and I will not apologize for it. I use the word refering to males as well as females. The way I see it, if the word is going to be used i would much rather hear it as a word used to unify members of my own race, than to demean us. We, as a race, have had a hard struggle to get where we are today. Rather than trying to forget our past, I appreciate the fact that our people have chosen to embrace it, and wear it as a badge of honor. The reason that we say people of other ethnicities should not use the word is because a lot of their people did not go through the same struggles as our ancestors. We have earned the right to use the "n" word, and nobody can take that away.