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The Dreaded N-Word

Question: when did become culturally acceptable for non-black people to start saying the dreaded n-word? Never have I seen such furor over one word like it was the secret code word for a bucket of chicken or something.

But here’s the thing: did cracka-ass crackas, chinks, camel jockeys, wetbacks and other non-black ethnicities start using the word because they heard it in a rap song, hung around black people who say it all the time or because they know most black people are now too lazy to slap the ever-loving shit out of them whenever they drop the n-bomb? Personally I could more or less do without some random-ass jig saying the word all the time like it’d bring out Jambi The Genie, but I’ve rarely brought myself up to want to beat a jackass down for saying it because it doesn’t rile me up as much as it used to in college.

Besides, I can never be a thug; they don’t dress this well.

Not to say that I don’t understand why other Black people would want to fuck somebody up, as in the case of Timbaland snuffing some random-ass paleface a few days ago in Germany. I mean, if some honky ran up on me screaming out the dreaded n-word with malicious intent, I’d also be more than willing to put a foot on the back of his neck, Bloodsport-style. But I’d be hard-pressed to want to mow down some cracka-ass cracka who’s singing along to “Ratha Be Ya N.I.G.G.A.,” as I saw on the freeway while on my way to work the other day. Outside of looking like a general dumbass, people like that guy aren’t doing a disservice to anyone.

Since I’m on the topic of shitbag artists that don’t do shit for me, if Black people get so asshurt whenever some Iron Sheikh-looking DJ blabs it out on Rap City, why is it considered okay for Blacks to call him an sarong-rocking terrorist, other than the fact that it’s fucking hilarious? If a red-dot featherhead doesn’t get upset that we call them out of character, is it not a double standard to get mad whenever we catch it back?

While I do understand that the dreaded n-word is an expression steeped in slavery, discrimination, segregation and pretty much every other thing that’s been designed to fuck over Black people for centuries, it’s odd to consider how Black people themselves use it as if it were some sort of bizarre fraternal word. Not to turn the spotlight back on me, but I really don’t care if some random-ass gook blurts it out like it was going out of style. At the same time, other races shouldn’t get worked up whenever Blacks return the favor back to them. I mean, cracka-ass crackas take most of the good jobs in this world as is. The day I stop calling a honky a honky is the day they get ran for those forty acres and mules they promised Blacks all those years ago.

Much like all negative things, one must be ready for any backlash that comes from their actions. We already know that Black people have the most ripped off cultures as is. Can we really be angry when another random-ass ethnicity steals our slang, especially one as societally damaging as the dreaded n-word?

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