Response to the N-word..

-By Roz-B'

The word "nigga" represents to me an attempt by black folks over the years to break free of slavery by doing what blacks have always done since slavery. Make something good out of something bad. The problem is the best thing to have done is to leave the word in the past, dead and buried. The fact we try to justify it now and in many cases don't even realize we are using it shows how far reaching the effects of slavery have been on Blacks mentally.

It shows the chains are still wrapped around our minds and the more we use it the tighter it gets again. And as we all know: we use it all the time. When we use it, more often than not, we start acting more negatively and more in the fashion of what the original word "nigger" meant.

It always leads to something bad or embarrasing or worse. We use it so much but won't let anyone else say it. It makes no sense. If you use it you have no right to stop others from using it because no matter how you spell it it means the same thing: Dead or less than nothing. That was the dictionary's definition before the word was stricken from most dictionarys. Think about that: A word so horrible it can't even stay in the dictionary. It is the unofficial 8th curse word.
Just stop using it and free your mind.

Oh and the "B" thing, I guess some(?) women felt they were being left out of the whole "let's degrade myself and each other" thing and found something almost as bad to make themselves less than who they are.


Roz-B is a Hip Hop Republican from Hebron, Kentucky

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