Do you use the N word?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, I listen to rap and watch comedy shows and watch movies. It would be impossible to rap along with any of my favorite songs without using the N word ...

As a black person, this is why I find rap music disturbing! People think that they get special passes to spit out racist, homophobic, and misogynistic venom. Even without the use of the n-word, rap music degrades and exploits women of color. Yes, there is a "very small percentage" of rap artists (which the mainstream music industry doesn't promote) who have positive messages. However, the majority of rap music is poisonous on so many levels. People who support and patronage abuse in the mask of art are sick! If you find it impossible to not use the n-word, then maybe you need to began listening to music which doesn't promote stereotypes. If you're black and listen to this crap, then your parents didn't raise you right. If you're white and listen to this crap, then you are embracing the degradation of black people.

Using the n-word is not cool! It is disgusting and deplorable no matter who uses it.

Calm down. I'm black and listen to rap music. If we eliminated genres because it was offensive to some, we'd all have to resort to instrumental music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm black.
When I was eight (1990), I went skiing for the first time. The guy operating the lift rolled his eyes when he saw me and said to the other guy, "Here comes another one of THEM. Don't you belong on a basketball court or something?"
That same week my grandmother got on me about something and said, "Nigga, have you lost your everlasting mind?"

The fact that my grandmother used an "ugly, outdated word from a bygone era" (to quote someone on television) didn't even enter my mind. I just knew she was mad, because I put my shoes up on her couch.

The guy on the ski trip, however, provided me with my first experience with racism, and he used a common pronoun to do it.

I don't care about the "N-word." It's just a word. There are plenty of them used everyday to convey hate.

Word! Folks getting so damn caught up over a word while they display racism and prejudice in other harmful and insidious ways. Being on DCUM proves that, though many don't say the word nigger, they damn sure are prejudiced and hold some really ugly views about black people. GTFOH with your "I don't use that hateful word" BS.

[Anonymous]

Exactly, PP. It's someone's art. Your choices are : buy it or don't buy it. You could buy edited, but I take moral issue with censorship.

[Anonymous]

Black woman here. Grew up in the projects. Used the word all throughout my life and used it to describe all races of people.

As I've grown up, I use it less and less, BUT I still use it occasionally.

I have stressed to my children that they shouldn't use the word, but I'm not deceived that they don't outside of my presence. I'm hopeful that, like me, they will grow out of using the word as they mature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the word because it is so incredibly powerful, and I use it privately, but not in a racial way, but in an angry way.

for example, when I was zip lining in Costa Rica down a volcano at about 60mph, I was yelling/rapping to myself: F__ing with me cuz I'm a teenager, with a little bit of gold and a pager, searching my car, looking for the product, thinking ever N___er is selling narcotic! Stuff like that. Or maybe old Easy E: I'm a crazy a$$ N---er with my finger on the trigger of an Uzi or an AK. Sorry, I love those songs from my youth and I sing them to myself when I need to fire myself up. But I'd never use the word in anger AT someone else because those thoughts are not in my brain ...

they are songs, it is art. I don't believe in censorship. "Anger" was the wrong word. Don't you have certain songs that you use when you want to run fast, to get up and go, to fire yourself up for a test (if a student) or a project at work? Mine are those songs above, maybe Rage Against the Machine, maybe old Motley Crue. But sure, a lot of those old hard rap songs are AWESOME and have the N word throughout the songs. Love old Dre and Snoop too, but they are more mellow. Don't tell me what kind of music to listen to, and I'm certainly not going to edit myself when singing along to my favorite songs.