the N word is alive
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From the time the first slave boat arrived in the new world, blacks were stripped of their homes, children, husbands, wives and names. However, the names were replaced with derogatory names such as coon, monkey and most offensive one of them all nigger.
Some of the other names over the years have died down in some cases, but the word nigger seems to still be very present.
In the black community some blacks have taken the word nigger (negative) and tried to turn it into a positive by saying nigga, meaning friend.
However, it has confused many non- African American people who think it is cool to use the N word to refer to their friends who maybe black or white.
Recently on Camillionaire’s latest album “Sound of Revenge” he has refused to use to the word N word because he says it restricts his creativity. On Celeb Krack he was quoted saying,
“On my new album I don’t say the word n***a, I don’t curse nowhere on my whole album,” Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. “People are not even gonna know it. I guarantee if I don’t go out and say it in the media they’re not even gonna realize that. People go back and listen to all of my old mixtapes and don’t even realize that I wasn’t even doing all that type of stuff. I was saying n***a, but I wasn’t saying the ‘f’ word or [the] ‘b’ word. I was never saying those types of things…I hear that so much and it restricts your creativity and how far it can go.”
This is a positive start for the hip hop community. However other rap moguls such as Nas plans on releasing a new album this year called, “Nigger.” If record label Universal decides to release his album it will cost them $84 million dollars. It is disturbing that rappers can say the N word on their albums, but can’t place it on the cd cover as a title.
So the question is… are we saying it is ok to use the N word so long as we don’t see the actual word in stores?
