61. "now think about how it's used in Django juxtaposed to today's 'reclamati..." In response to In response to 57
of the word
that is, we've been accepting of the word with the 'a' pronunciation in more recent times
and it's been explained as some reclamation, etc...
Django is a perfect example of why that is bullshit
that word in that film is used to degrade humans to the point of property
for folks that may not have gotten the message in Nas' n word album, tried to rationalize it with Negus, etc...
Think about the impact of watching slave owners refer to people that look like them as niggers
even lower than slave owner white people in that film used the word to delineate us and them
even black characters in that film, when needing to exalt themselves to higher than those people, used the word nigger
so sitting there, as an adult who was raised on hip-hop
having fully accepted the term into our vocabulary, and used as a term of endearment
made me fully aware of how vile that word really was, is, and I won't outright say IT WAS the reason I made a conscious effort to not use that word anymore
but I can say I've substituted the word FAM
for the most part
i.e. did we reclaim it, or are we doing Candy's job?