While people haven’t been able to agree on whether or not there is a difference between both words, one thing is very clear – there is a ridiculous double standard that needs to stop now. The word should be off-limits to us all, no matter if we end it in a -er or -a. After all, after years of brutal slavery and vicious discrimination, we try to cope with the years of suffering by calling each other the very same degrading names that plantation owners once called us? It just doesn’t make any sense. One blogger wrote on their blogspot that the term”nigger” helped African Americans “find laughter and comfort within a word that once subjected them to a lower form of life.” Jews aren’t walking around calling each other “untermensch” or “Judenschwein” (derogatory terms that the Nazis called Jews during the Holocaust), so why should African Americans walk around calling each other worthless, dirty, slaves – that is, after all, what the word originally meant. What message does it send if we call each other the same term even if we do pronounce it a little differently? If “nigga” was actually a completely new term that we coined with the definition of endearment, we wouldn’t be so offended when people of other races used it right? But even if a white person came up to you and said “Hello nigga. I hope you’re having a wonderful day today” you would still be offended and shocked by the term right? In other words, it would still hold its usual negative connotation… nothing about that has changed.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:07:26 +0000
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