THE CRUX OF IT: Actively maintaining low expectations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is an origin, an intended purpose, and a definitive history behind all words. The question of whether those truths can be changed or re-assigned in some way is distinctly and inextricably applicable to the word – nigger.

The following vid expresses the points of contention with the use of the most divisive word in the English language.

 

 

 

Everyone likely has an opinion on the potency of the word.

I resist the usage and refuse to embrace the apparent common acceptance of it. Some might presume that the rejection stems from some kind of softening or domesticity, but it is based purely in a philosophical belief.

The word was intended to dehumanize and reclassify an entire group of people for the express purpose of turning them into inhuman property. No one at the time of the inception of the word was ever referred to as a man or a woman. That implies equality.

So, the present mindset is that the changing of the pronunciation and spelling creates a completely different paradigm.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The new “nigga” is an attempt to take ownership and power. That’s understandable but hard to legitimize and still doesn’t keep it from being counter-productive.

The usage of it is also often intended with much more of a negative and accusatory connotation than the term of endearment that it’s professed to be.

Referring to someone as “my nigga” is also not usually done with someone considered to be respectable and honorable- unless it’s done in a gimmicky way with the intention of shocking or appearing to be rebellious- like when our President was called it in a room full of white people by a comedian ( the intent was theatrical and meant to alienate those people).

*I’d submit that anyone that embraces that form of referencing another black person is holding onto a slave mentality that limits and belittles the user as well as the person that the user claims as an ally.

*The usage in either form serves the power structure’s desire to foster and maintain a status-quo subservient group mentality.

*Anyone who desires the limiting and confining power that stems from the word is completely incapable of seeing a difference between the two versions

That does not mean that the primary consideration should be the desires and sensibilities of the originators of hate that coined the word. The usage or discarding should be an entirely in-house discussion.

Black people always discard over-used or overly co-opted words and phrases with a quickness!

 

Everyone should ask themselves why this is the one term that is struggled so incredibly intensely to protect.