Paula Deen, "Nigger", and Angry Blacks.

Paula Deen, "Nigger", and Angry Blacks

There's a big stir over Paula Deen using the word nigger. Personally, I don't care; everyone uses it now. Everyone. Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, Asians-everyone says nigger.

I understand why the Food Network terminated Deen as a result of this. I also understand why Pepsi terminated its sponsorship of Mountain Dew with rapper Lil' Wayne for his offensive reference of Emmett Till in his lyrics- a business that wants customers of every race and ethnicity cannot tolerate offensive and insensitive remarks about race and ethnicity.

The daily double-why are blacks so outraged by all of this? This is a common word used in their vernacular daily and I don't see any of them getting offended when one of their own say nigger. You will hear juvenile justifications such as, "We say nigga, not nigger." Newsflash-nigga is nigger mispronounced!

In any event, Bill Maher made an interesting point regarding this controversy-terminate Deen over this situation, but rap records that uses the same language continues to be embraced? Where is the punitive actions for lyricists using nigger in their music? There isn't any.

Quite frankly, this is becoming tiresome. If blacks use nigger so frequently in their every-day-vernacular without being offended once, why get upset over Paula Deen using it? Is there really a difference? No, this is nothing more but hypocrisy and the engendering of a double standards.

Nigga, Nigger-It's All the Same S#!t

     What's up with some black people and the controversy over the use of the N word? I'm a black male and as an invidividual, I don't use the N word-unless a Negro acts like one. (i.e., sagging pants, not fathering children, unemployed, but gets high). In any event, I don't use the N word as a term of endearment. There isn't anything brotherly or amicable about the word.

     "What's up, my nigga?", "What's good, my nigga?", "Nigga, you trippin'." This is every day dialogue within the black community-no, that is a lie; I've heard Mexicans allude to each other as niggas. Uh hunh, Hispanics are calling themselves niggas, too.

     Given any case, some people like it. Some people dislike it. Me? I'm not a nigger or a nigga. I don't think of myself as one and I don't want to be addressed as one.

     But what I don't like is when black people become erratic when whites use the N word. Suddenly, blacks are revoluationaries and they're willing to stand up against the oppression of White America-only when Whites say nigga (i.e., there was a white female rapper that got much heat for using nigga in her lyrics). Their reasoning? "It's different when whites say it. We say, 'nigga', they mean 'nigger'". Translation-it's okay when blacks say it.

    What these unlearned Negroes have failed to realize is this: nigga is just the mispronounciation of nigger. Yes, that is correct; "my nigga" is really "my nigger", it's just not being pronounced in its entirety. Blacks have always had an issue with annunciating English words properly. But slavery has been abolished and grammar is taught to children of all races as early as kindergarten. So what is the problem?

    So . . . if you're going to call each other niggas, just make sure that you annunciate every syllable so that it's nigger, not nigga. More importantly, don't get angry when someone like Marshall Mathers says nigga; there really is no difference between Jay-Z saying nigga, or Eminem.