This is an old debate and me even saying anything about this is like beating a dead horse. However it is a real issue and everyone, including myself at times, has got to stop using this word. Anyway, I developed this rant after reading a headline on Playahata.com that read "Mo’Nique said Blacks will be Ni$$as even in Heaven". Now I'm not the most religious person, but that really struck me wrong. Her justification is as follows:

“I love that word because that is who our ancestors are. When we get to heaven and we meet those group of people they won’t know to call us African-Americans, they won’t know to call us the Blacks, they going to know to call us N—–. And when they say, ‘Hey N—–,’ I’m going to respond, ‘Hey N—–. Look at all the great things the n—–s did.’ "

Everyone makes up justifications, reasons why and how to use the word. Who can or can't say it. And we are fooling ourselves to think that we can put rules, and restrictions on the use of the word. However you can't escape the reality of the fact that it's just a really nasty word. The idea that you are empowering people by supposedly taking away the meaning of that word to me is demeaning to all those who died and were mutilated because of that word. No justification can erase the historical damage caused by that word. It is spitting in the face of all those who marched, protested and died to prove that we are a people above the connotations of that word. And no matter what reasons, rules, explanations you give, those who truly believe that all Black people represent the definition of that word are laughing at you. It's like teaching a child a curse word and laughing at them when they say it in front of others. The child knows nothing of the meaning of that word, which in turn makes it funny when they say it to some. However we do know the meaning behind that word and we need to stop behaving as if we don't. It's time to evolve as a people and begin holding ourselves up to higher standards. We all need to stand up and shout "I am not now nor was a EVER somebody's Nigger!" Let's grow the hell up and get it together.

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