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Nigga is a word used to describe oppressive mentality. Identity and context is the key.
A person subject to oppression hence uses the term in ambiguity, insofar as to say comrade, your prominent, talented, or aggressive. Also used as a badge of honor based on your shared struggle. There in is the positive usage. Negative usage identifies the other as the antithesis of the above. Haters are going to hate. If there wasn't another around to hate, they would hate themselves.
Although not a possibility within the context of our current mode of governance, it would greatly benefit the black community to undergo the imposition of such transformative policies of "positive liberty" in order to get beyond its present state of stagnation and obscurantism. Among other things, by debarring the use of the N-word the black community can begin a path of reformation away from the toxic manifestations of culture that now seem to plague it.
Social commentator Isaiah Berlin spoke of the efficacy of "positive liberty," meaning a type of benevolent dictatorship or imposition of values and policies that will mandate or coerce a people into adopting values and behaviors that are in their best interests. Despite these same people not wanting such a positive transformation themselves. Similar to a drug addict who stubbornly adheres to and rationalizes her self-detructive behaviors.
It is quite disturbing to view a supposed plenary group of black "leaders" or "intellectuals" actually validating the use of the N-word as a staple of black culture. And, sadly, the audience en masse actually applauded such validation.
@Quantummechanic720--that's your uninformed, biased, personal opinion. You obviously have limited knowledge of and experience with the diversity of the Black Exper. Words have no power-save that invested in them by the sender or the hearer. If you want to ban words -you will also need to ban the words boy and girl.Why--white people call adult Black men and black women living in the South --Girl and Boy.When I hear a 22 yr. old waitress call my 90 yr old mother a girl-I'm ready to clock her.
To all U pseudo-intellectual, politically correct, anthropological, opinion leaders, get over yourself. You don’t get it. You can’t apply an intellectual band aid to a visceral scare. Black folks know what we mean when we use the word and we also know what white folk mean when they use it. The problem is some white people want to use the word nigger and some of we niggers ain't having it. We have the power to define--a word means what I say it means-no more-no less (Humpty Dumpty) the egg head
Thats why I question Dyson authenticity as a professional intellectual because he supporting a word created by the same ignorant individuals who had many of his ancestors slaves and you have ignorant NIGGAS clapping for him because he said it in a intellectual way yet intellectuals really see the downtrodden and disturbed views which he speaks of...
NO INTELLIGENT PERSON ARGUES IN FAVOR OF THE N-WORD. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY BLOG ON THE N-WORD AND THE SONG “N-IN PARIS” please check out my blog on Black Atheism -THE PEOPLE’S MIC
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 I just read the blog article you recommended and I totally agree with you. The hip hop sub culture, and its characteristic dumbing down by misspelling words and the use of the N-word, is another contemporary variation of the black-faced minstrel. Jay Z is yet another incarnation of steppin fetchit and a well paid collaborator with the system of racism white supremacy; his millions notwithstanding. True self-resect and dignity are then truly priceless.
I'm white and I wish this word was never used in anything other than in a historical context. To ME, that word has repressed and held the black community captive. If anything, it holds more power now than ever and not in a good way. I don't understand how a word that embodies such disgraceful part of history is something now to be proud of. By using it as a term of endearment and injecting in to pop culture, it's solidifying its spot in society. How do people expect the word to die?
@ijreilly01 sorry, but words dont do that... Crack and Jim Crow is what held those people back and people like Dyson are keeping it alive... its pompousity without predication...complacency without arbitration... I dont see so-called blacks as Blacks because over 30% of them are mixed with other ethnic groups anyway western African peoples we call black people are really Hamitics (religious sentiments) or Saharan natives who later became known as the bantuans, I like to call "Iron Settlers"
@ijreilly01 Exactly!!!! This man is the epitome of an "educated fool." It is distinctly possible that he is an agent provocateur meant to facilitate the corruption of black society from within. The fact that so many blacks in the audience are clapping for this misguided pseudo intellectual is quite telling and a travesty of black culture.
@ijreilly01 It is particularly backward for anyone--especially a black person--to actually campaign for the legitimization of the N-word. A word that was created by the most hateful and afrophobic oppressors and tormentors of blacks. Such behavior indicates the lingering effects of what Dr. Joy Degruy-Leary calls post traumatic slave disorder.
@ijreilly01 Essentially, such blacks who whole heartedly embrace and rationalize the N-word, as a staple of black culture, are manifesting something of a pathology and an inner, insidious sense of self-loathing.
@ijreilly01 People are allowed our own opinions but not our own facts. It is incontrovertible that the N-word has a particular negative energy and the perpetuation of its use is concomitant with the bastardization and vitiation of black culture. Such justifiers of its use are indulging in sophistry and specious reasoning.
@ijreilly01 Can you imagine a Jew seeking to legitimize the use of the epithet "kike"? Of course not!!! When it comes to the black community there seems to be a particular faction that works very hard to maintain our culture and people on the most retrograde and obscurantist level. How can a people begin to progress when such a fundamental issue as the use of a derogatory term, meant to demean, has actually been embraced and celebrated by them? This is the epitome of backwardness!!!
Fucking brilliant speech, but America as a society is too content with the lies we've been told to actually deal with the monster that we've unwillingly created.
@MrYetzchaq I disagree. Words and language are a direct reflection of the mind, excluding some extra sensory ability. What is the point of having profound insight if that person cannot communicate it?
He is a intelligent nigger is he not?(Oxymoron) I think I need to get in touch with my inner honkie or cracker right? I hate hearing about the slavery of the black people like they are clean and without any wrong doing. I don't see any of them wanting to return to their so called homeland now that they are free nor do we ever hear them talk about all the white people who argued and fought for their freedom or the underground railway used to smuggle them out during the civil war.
@nexxuslord when did he say anything about slavery or that black people are how did you put it "clean and without any wrong doing." Why this comment, it has no relevance at all to Dr. Dysons discussion. So now it was the white people who argued and fought for our freedom and not us. We agree that a handful helped, and because of that it qualifies the masses of you who didn't to act as if white people gave us freedom instead of us fighting for it?
@bmoe8880 The Joke is There is no such thing as a Intelligent Nigger it is an Oxymoron. Dyson is intelligent so therefor not a nigger. I did not say Black people did not fight for their freedom a handful of whites helped and you got your freedom huh? In Truth I am sick of Racism and history actually shows every color race human kind has been enslaved by another we all need to get over it and admit that all lines are guilty of this but then again God Almighty supports slavery even though I don't.
@nexxuslord yes a handful helped, man and here I was thinking almost all those people in the civil rights photos and news broadcasts were black people. Again, why are you talking about slavery there was no mention of it in the video? 'We all need to get over it " seems to me that you have more of a problem with it than anyone else considering you brought it up. "I don't see any of them wanting to return to their so called homeland" sounds kinda racist to me.
Right on, but it's an oversimplification. The hypocrisy of America is that we created a free society for ALL men. We me agree that there is a cultural undercurrent of hatred and ignorance in the black community, but I contend that this is a result of the institutions whites put in place. You can't take the issues facing blacks in America out of context, but only as a part of the whole. Black people need economic equality, by any means.
@squarecracker i cannot speak for America, but in Australia there is at the very least, equality. Aboriginals-part of the same Negroid racial classification are given incredible educational benefits, housing benefits etc. because of their race. I have a police scanner in my truck and in a southern suburb of my city-an Aboriginal left her 2 year old child at McDonalds while she went home to pull bongs. Why does that happen even here-with one of the highest human development indexes in the world?
@likedatniggawade Aboriginals or Native Austronesians are not from the same stock as the Negroid but from a totally different branch who left not Africa, but India and Burma. Superficial people see people mostly from their physical appearances over the cultural and genetic ones... Thats like me saying Germans and Romans were from the same branch, or greeks and Slavs, or even celts and Iberians (yet they share a common ancestry closer than the other tribes such as the Illyrians and the Saxons.)
@MrYetzchaq They all left Africa, and you are right they did come from the south east Asia region but they are of Negroid classification. Anthropological studies find similar cranial characteristics with Negritos and Melanesians also, all from south east Asia.
@likedatniggawade There are no wolves without sheep. No wealth without poverty. One cannot be on the top without something on the bottom. This ideology is the cancer. Better, Smarter, Stronger....The Übermensch (German for "Overman, Overhuman, Above-Human, Superman"
Man invented God ...Man wants to become God...or God like...but what's the point of being God if no one is going to worship you.
Blacks are not being subject to eugenics or genocide. What a stupid statement. As a matter of record Blacks are reproducing at a rate faster than any other race. Look at the birth rates of Europeans, and Asians compared to Blacks.
"Breeding out was a military and political policy that Greek,Roman and English rulers would use to complete the forced assimilation process of a conquered people, I feel great knowing that i speak two languages and learning a third. This is what Dr. Dyson is talking about expanding your mind.
@lokhryu RE: "YOUR SLAVEMASTER GREATGREAT GRANDFATHER RAPING OUR BEAUTIFUL BLACKWOMEN" WHAT IF I SAID your coon twat great great grandpussy raped our beautiful white women? what would you think of me? racist perhaps? take a second and reflect on your own stupidity and you might deserve the freedoms we both enjoy. until then go to hell freak
@lokhryu "This guy is black" and "this guy is mulatto" pick one idiot... wow your racism is out of control... fool my "slavemaster grand daddy whatever" lived in Norway and worked in a copper mine. You have problems. Seek help you pathetic racist trash.
@lokhryu Racists like you make me sick. You are a racist, and yes there are TONS of black racists just lije you, fucking worthless unintellegent monkey. Fuck off, no one here owned slaves or has great great grandparents ownin slaves, you dumb coon.
@lokhryu It's sad brother. I'm white and the women of my race hate our men for others, because of appearance! Asians killing themselves because Asian men aren't good enough, seriously c'mon lets get together!
Black people need to stop blaming everyone else and get there shit together. You have the resources in your country and can't even get a dam job or school. Most the jails are filled with black people.
@lokhryu Racism will never die because of people like you. Black people just wont let it die because if you actually had to start not blaming white people for all there problems in 2011 still then they would have to look in the mirror at their own community and ask the question that is "why are so many black daddys walkin out on me and my mamma"? Finding the answer might cure a lot of the problems the black community is going through. No race hates your race.
Look at this light skinned nigga (his words not mine) tryin to talk to MLK. (MLK is rollin in his grave when he sees this shit) This video right here is the reason why racism will never die. Black people just wont let it.
I find it hilarious that as soon as someone mentions race issues, his point of view gets distorted. Did he say he doesn't love America? I've followed up on him for years. He's pointing at the issues going on everyday. Funny how you can say blacks need to get their act together but as soon as blacks mention any type of race issues, they're playing the race card. A lot blacks have their acts together and still harassed, beat down, searched, pulled over because they're driving nice cars.
I find it hilarious that as soon as someone mentions race issues, his point of view gets distorted. Did he say he doesn't love America? I've followed up on him for years. He's pointing at the issues going on everyday. Funny how you can say blacks need to get their act together but as soon as blacks mention any type of race issues, they're playing the race card. A lot blacks have their acts together and still harassed, beat down, searched, pulled over because they're driving nice cars.
nigger does mean black in an object form. the reason he saw it in Latin is because they used it to describe something thats black as a object (blackboard,black ball, black table). to except this word is to except being call an OBJECT. thats why as a black-man i will never except being call nigga negro nigger or anything associated with being a object slave
i am black this nigga is retarted, I believe in the real God of the Bible the only creator. he made 1 good point about the bible the rest was garbage. my opinuion
@JPtv3000 Is "YOUR GOD" ( The plagiarized concepts of the original HERU, later given a face and another name Serapus by Romans, later changed again by a Roman emperor named Constantine, who envied also the African peoples of Kemet , now known as "Egypt", later changed yet again and given a worldly campaign the 1st being Nicea, later yet another council creating a book called a bible, which also plagiarized Kemtic philosophy on real spiritual understanding etc etc ) really the "REAL GOD" LOL.
@davisismail1comcast YOU must be under the impression, God of the Bible means catholasism. I'm of that way which is the way of Christ JESUS, find that in ya bible. Nigga or Nigger is a word that a person may accept as their personal self definition. Therefore as a man/childofGod I can not and will not swallow this. That Nword is for people who want the hand out that comes with it. The Nword is like a prostitute if want her YOU have to take all that comes with her. personally No Thanks. chk splng
To this day I've been a commited anti-racist, I've been and I still am affiliated with ARL (Anti-Racism League) but listening to these black leaders preaching and ONLY WORRYING about black people makes me wonder if the last ten or so years of my life I've been fighting against my own interests.
@gombis666 really that is a silly comment to make, this man is very educated and made complete sense ,re watch and pay close attention and you will learn something.
whatever man, nobody not calling me no nigga especially outside of the black race, its already bad enough how we just use the word for everything. Something just not right about that.
@xcalibur4l i can bet my everything, that you are not even nearly qualified enough to even make such a critical comment about a proffessor with a PhD. where do you think he got his certificates from, stole them? go back to school will yah
@xcalibur4l ok then smart pants, why do you have to tell me you're nigerian?? I didn't call you a racist I just said you're not qualified enough to make such a comment about someone whose obviously well educated and clearly I was right. And affirmative action doesn't give people degrees it just gives them a fair shot at getting one. So don't think you're better than people who get into tertiary education because of it.. my question still stands were do you think he got his PhD from, heaven??
@tinasheroy he got a PhD doing a shit corse.period. it is not like he stdied engineering or pharmacy for example. from the way he always talks he seems to have a PhD in "playing the race card studies",hahaha.i think the guy is a waste of space.
all he does is jive talk and thinks he is smart. no he is dumb.
Affirmative action is not a fairr system cos it gives preferrial treatment to certain groups.
I know will start educting on why its there but i still think its bullshit
LOL, are you talking about Dyson? The man is highly intelligent. And no shit he didn't study engineering/pharamacy. Why in God's name would he provide political commentary if he had a degree in Engineering or Pharmaceuticals?
You don't understand the significance of affirmative action, yet you feel you're qualified to give your opinion on Dyson's commentary on race...
"the guy is a waste of space..all he does is jive talk"
@xcalibur4l I don't think you have an understanding of the complexity of race relations in this country and around the world and how much it affects a black perspective in America. I don't think you have an understanding of colonial inculcation around the world. Nor do you have an understanding of the effects of a Eurocentric education upon Black students or white students for that matter. I think all you see is his style of communication and infer that he must be devoid of serious content.
Not convinced. I didn't feel comfortable gleely saying nigga when I was little, I don't feel comfortable saying it now, though I use it in discussions and for that purpose only.
Facts.African American unemployment has gone up under president obama.Facts..Blacks have had more abortions since Obama has been in office.He is 50% white after all and his Black aunt lives in section 8 housing.Black people need to stop adding race first, infront of commonsense.Facts are facts.
@Madcowrage what a pointless comment, obama's not president of black people but the USA. these trends that you mention are universal, ie you not only find them in black, but white, hispanic and chinese communities as well, so whats your point?
This video is not worthy of comment. Dyson is a hack, race hustler. I wish I could debate him after all his articles I read in law school. Dyson, if you don't like this country, Delta has flights every day!! The man is a virulent racist and does not believe that people are responsible for themselves. I have had the opportunity to live in many countries not one of them endorses "You owe me something" . If Blacks want to "get their act together" then do it, and stop complaining!!!
@patent4u100 who is he racists against again and how? explain cause that i dont understand at all. and by blacks getting their act together you mean, waking up tomorrow, going to school, getting jobs and earning 50 grand a year? to you its as simple as that isnt it? i seriously doubt you'd have a chance debating Dyson
@patent4u100 Okay Im with you on the whole Nigga, Nigger, thing being used as a term of endearment, in other words i don't subscribe to it either. My issue brotha is that we must also shake the shackle of Colonial religion. the bible, is the bible is the bible, despite the semantics, which further confuse those who won't do the real research. if you except 'their' deity, their rituals, along with their book, you are giving real energy to that which is the last vestige of our mental bondage.
@patent4u100@gombis666 I'm sorry but who are you? What have you done to try to improve the African-American communities. Where can I get your books explaining your view point on complex issues?
Michael Dyson has help me better understand myself and countless others. If anyone is full of talk with little substance then I think it would be you two.
@CostlyChris What complex issues? Dont' deal drugs?: Don't join a gang?: Don't have kids you can't take care of?; Get an education and stay in school? Tell me, which of these is not a problem in the Black community? I should not be required to write "books" concerning what your parents should have taught you. The U.S. got a" Black" President, elected by the white majority, but still complain, complain, complain. Trust me I would not be as educated as I am without encountering people like Dyson.
@patent4u100 I wasn't complaining just pointing out your a nobody to this conversation. All the things you mention are problems but your completely lost as to the reason why. It's obvious reading your reply and what does Obama has to do with anything? He isn't even African-American he's a African of European descent and his upbringing was FAR from the typical Black experience but thats not A or B. Who are you? some law school student? wow your a very creditable source to listen too.
@CostlyChris I have not been a law student for years now. Thank you for recognizing that Obama is not totally African but also of European decent. I mentioned Obama because people are always saying there are not any" Black" role models, this man is the most powerful (but incompetent) person in the world. Tell me what exactly is the reason why Blacks continue to complain about poverty, lack of opportunity, racism etc.. Has society and I not heard this for at least the last 20 years?
@patent4u100 okay to put it as simply as possible even though slavery has end there has never been any credible effort to even out the economical playing field and although Affirmative Action does exist there has been so much resistance and begrudging of the practice White women actually became the main winners of it. Crack was let loose on our communities so that Reagan could have war money and institutional racism creates a climate where even mentioning injustice gets a Ad hominem reply.
@patent4u100 You and society may of heard it but it goes through one ear and out the other with little tiptoes of progression in between which gets met with extreme hostility and criticism at every corner. Hate to generalize but white people resist change is historical. Whites in the 70s told blacks that things change for better compared to the 40s so we shouldn't complain and today we're told America post racial and any claim of racism is now racist. Hell America can't even let Goku be Asian.
@CostlyChris What complex issues? Dont' deal drugs?: Don't join a gang?: Don't have kids you can't take care of?; Get an education and stay in school? Tell me, which of these is not a problem in the Black community? I should not be required to write "books" concerning what your parents should have taught you. The U.S. got a" Black" President, elected by the white majority, but still complain, complain, complain. Trust me I would not be as educated as I am without encountering people like Dyson
@patent4u100 wow... so the tables have been turned against those who rile against a system that has oppressed others for centuries (and it still does today).. He is simply touching on issues that YOU and your ilk are afraid of hearing.. you my friend are the racist. Please educate yourself... start by researching the origins of terms like genocide and eugenics and those who profited and still profit from this system you so defend...
@wachawivu I know the meaning of eugenics, do you? I spent part of my childhood in Germany and have relatives that survived the Nazi regime! Blacks are not being systematically breeded out, idiot. Tell me what society on earth that at one time or another has not been oppressed? The Muslims of North Africa enslaved parts of Europe. And then tell me what other country has tried so hard to right the wrongs done to others?
Oh wow so you are literate, and you can honestly sit there and claim that Blacks (whatever that means) are not being bred out? since you claim to be knowledgeable on Eugenics then you are familiar of the works of the likes of Francis Galton and his peers and their research on the so called blacks.The fact of the matter is that indigenous peoples around the world are being systematically wiped by the same culprits who determine what you learn and how you think...
Black people need to change the way the world looks at them.Not by complaining but by stepping back and taking a good look at the behavior the world sees on the news,YouTube,etc.If you see a Pitbull walking down the street unleashed would you walk up and pet it? If no why not?Not all Pitbulls are bad.A good number of black people would rather be cool(acting ghetto)then becoming a productive part of if society.Unite,pull your pants up,speak proper English and watch the change
@123lip03 proper english?? english wasn our language in the first place... you take away creative pepole away from what they know,they do with what they have. besides that... yal paying to much attention to the people(way they talk, etc..)than yal do to the problem....zombies lol. what we need to do is come together out a way to figure eachother out(black people) that way we can understand and grow instead of avoiding and tearing eachother down over....dumbshit( the way they talk).
@gombis666 if it's bullshit then of course it's nothing at all but if it's something you can't comprehend, then your brain misunderstood what your ears heard
People that have an issue with the word nigger or nigga are seriously insecure. It's the same with people that have an issue with so called curse words. These are all words which should only be offensive after considering the context in which they are used.
Mike Dyson is not ignorant- yall say that shit because you have nothing intelligent to say. You cant refute HIS OPINION (which is not fact) with information so you call him ignorant.
You know whats ignorant? Calling someone else ignorant when you're completely blank.
Why is it that these days it feels like a white kid who never gets out of the trailer park is just lazy and stupid... but the black kid selling crack to his mom, and eventually probably him is oppressed, and there is an obvious "boot print" in his forehead from where the white man has kept him down? And by the way, there are no lines to read between. "And this is essentially a black perspective." It goes both ways, and I pay no mind to a community who doesn't care about me.
@charlescmyers because as a white person in america, you have unearned privilege that black people do not have. If that white kid who never gets out of the trailer took the simple step of cleaning up and putting on a suit, he has a much higher chance of landing a job than the black kid who does the same thing. If you have opportunities available to you, and you fail to use them, you are lazy and stupid, while if you are provided no opportunities, you are oppressed, it is simple as that
@unvmyskills You have succinctly explained the dichotomy between the reason for most white peoples' lack of upward mobility and that of black people in America. Yet whites, in their supremacist arrogance and narcissism, project their own reasons for their circumstances onto blacks, whose conditions have come about for quite different reasons.
@unvmyskills What is most offensive is that these whites summarily deny having undeserved privileges relative to blacks. A study by Devah Pager revealed that whites with a high school diploma and a criminal record are more likely to obtain employment than a black male with no record and a college degree. This is a most egregious indication of blacks being oppressed in America. And whites experiencing a form of Affirmative Action, if you will, via discrimination and afrophobia, not govt aid.
@unvmyskills The white male anti-racism white supremacy activist named Tim Wise identified statistics that indicate white people are TWICE as likely to believe that Elvis Presley is still alive than to believe that racism white supremacy is still an issue in America relative to blacks' quality of life. INCREDIBLE!!!!
He is obviously an affirmative action hire. His assessment of globalisation is flawed. 200 million people, in China, were emancipated from poverty due to the global economy. He also uses terms wrong, you can not use a word with promiscuity. I am so glad I don't go to university in America, and I feel sorry for this Professor's student. He has allowed his politics to over take his reason.
this guy is so fake! i consider myself both black and white, but nigga or nigger, or whatever you want to call it is not used by most blacks across the globe, we as blacks need to stop using labels to describe or define who or what we are, we are not homies, thugs, dogs, gangstas, pimps, playas, hoes, bitches, motha fuckas, we are and should always be men and women, the more we degrade ourselves with labels, the more we lose our since of manhood and womanhood.
The problem with "nigger" is that it was given to black African slaves by the Portuguese and not for any other race. Let's use a name we have given ourselves, not a name someone has given to us. It funny how we won"t call ourselves Negro, rightly so. But then we will turn around and call ourselves NIGGER (NIGGA)? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US! Wonder why others don't respect us. We don't fully respect ourselves!
As long as anyone sees this person as "black", "african american", or "nigger", or the other way around "white", "whitey", etc, mental illness won´t let him think. Has anyone thought that beneath hair, skin, muscle, etc we all have a skull? Some of us, it seems, also, a brain? There are "niggers" everywhere, as Mr. Dyson says, and today´s niggers xould be tomorrow´s whiteys, or the other way around, as a matter of fact we are all going to hell in a few years!
For those who said that you didn't hear address the problem maybe you're aren't that intelligent. The brother just told you that the word has more power in how we disproptionately take the rights of those who can't defend themselves. That's what a 21st century nigga is.,...
WHAT AN IDIOT! JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU WERE BRIGHT…..ANOTHER IGNORANT WELL READ DUMMY. THE “N” WORD IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO “US”! YOU NEED BETTER UNDERSTANDING…”BROTHA"
yea all that eduaction and still..i think a serious discusion on social matters as this doesnt need any more drama idk imo im all for advancement but that word along with others is degrading and moraly offensive but to each his own i guess :)
@dbfro1 YOU CAN “THINK” IT OUT AS WELL AS YOU LIKE. THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS IGNORANT. AND WHAT DOES HIS JOB TITLE HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT HE SAID? “STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES”. YOU SEEM VERY IMPRESSED WITH JOB TITLES OVER SUBSTANCE. “SPICE” PLEASE READ MORE.
@dbfro1 YOU CAN “THINK” IT OUT AS WELL AS YOU LIKE. THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS IGNORANT. AND WHAT DOES HIS JOB TITLE HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT HE SAID? “STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES”. YOU SEEM VERY IMPRESSED WITH JOB TITLES OVER SUBSTANCE. “SPICE” PLEASE READ MORE.
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 dr michael eric dyson isnt an ignorant person, and neither am i. u fail to understand wit and context, and bc of that ur unable to understand dyson's point. im not gonna explain it to you, esp since u seem to think im too stupid to do so. if u wanna have an intelligent conversation with me, ill oblige. otherwise, keep it movin.
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 this vid IS his stance on the word. i dont have to go looking for dysons view of the word. and no, hes not ignorant. for black people, that word is as personal as any word in our language. each african american should be able to have their own opinion on it, esp since each african american has prob had their own experiences w/ the word.
I can't percieve why this word is filled with so much hatred, so pardon my ignorence. If we're going to understand where this term derived from then black people are hating a term that was used generations ago, now it is understandable why a black people can be against a white person saying this word but, isn't it also understandable for a white person not to understand the importance of this word, I mean it's not like we lived within those generations.
I can't percieve why this word is filled with so much hatred, so pardon my ignorence. If we're going to understand where this term derived from then black people are hating a term that was used generations ago, now it is understandable why black people can be against a white person saying this word but, isn't it also understandable for a white person not to understand the importance of this word, I mean it's not like we lived within those generations.
I can't percieve why this word is filled with so much hatred, so pardon my ignorence. If we're going to understand where this term derived from then black people are hating a term that was used generations ago, now it is understandable why black people can be against a white person saying this word but, isn't it also understandable for white people not to understand the importance of this word, I mean it's not like we lived within those generations.
Im not black but growing up in a big city I feel like a nigga. I've had to face discrimination because of my race. People hate on me just because Im white. Im a minority where I live. In high school I found out that minority just ment not white. I looked up the how much of the population was white and we came in at the bottem; Just above native americans, but they dont consider me a minority. Its just away to exclude me. When I started college I didnt get any minority scholarships. I get a bill.
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QUANTUMMECHANIC720 23 hours ago
he looks very lightskin as for a Black person...
and as far as I understand English, he's a wise man.
IbnJahmed 3 days ago
Nigga is a word used to describe oppressive mentality. Identity and context is the key.
A person subject to oppression hence uses the term in ambiguity, insofar as to say comrade, your prominent, talented, or aggressive. Also used as a badge of honor based on your shared struggle. There in is the positive usage. Negative usage identifies the other as the antithesis of the above. Haters are going to hate. If there wasn't another around to hate, they would hate themselves.
Tellthetruth61 6 days ago
Although not a possibility within the context of our current mode of governance, it would greatly benefit the black community to undergo the imposition of such transformative policies of "positive liberty" in order to get beyond its present state of stagnation and obscurantism. Among other things, by debarring the use of the N-word the black community can begin a path of reformation away from the toxic manifestations of culture that now seem to plague it.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
Social commentator Isaiah Berlin spoke of the efficacy of "positive liberty," meaning a type of benevolent dictatorship or imposition of values and policies that will mandate or coerce a people into adopting values and behaviors that are in their best interests. Despite these same people not wanting such a positive transformation themselves. Similar to a drug addict who stubbornly adheres to and rationalizes her self-detructive behaviors.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
It is quite disturbing to view a supposed plenary group of black "leaders" or "intellectuals" actually validating the use of the N-word as a staple of black culture. And, sadly, the audience en masse actually applauded such validation.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@Quantummechanic720--that's your uninformed, biased, personal opinion. You obviously have limited knowledge of and experience with the diversity of the Black Exper. Words have no power-save that invested in them by the sender or the hearer. If you want to ban words -you will also need to ban the words boy and girl.Why--white people call adult Black men and black women living in the South --Girl and Boy.When I hear a 22 yr. old waitress call my 90 yr old mother a girl-I'm ready to clock her.
wholetruf 1 week ago
To all U pseudo-intellectual, politically correct, anthropological, opinion leaders, get over yourself. You don’t get it. You can’t apply an intellectual band aid to a visceral scare. Black folks know what we mean when we use the word and we also know what white folk mean when they use it. The problem is some white people want to use the word nigger and some of we niggers ain't having it. We have the power to define--a word means what I say it means-no more-no less (Humpty Dumpty) the egg head
wholetruf 2 weeks ago
Thats why I question Dyson authenticity as a professional intellectual because he supporting a word created by the same ignorant individuals who had many of his ancestors slaves and you have ignorant NIGGAS clapping for him because he said it in a intellectual way yet intellectuals really see the downtrodden and disturbed views which he speaks of...
MrYetzchaq 2 weeks ago
@MrYetzchaq oh my god i thought i was the only one who could follow what he was saying. fuck its a joke.
likedatniggawade 2 weeks ago
NO INTELLIGENT PERSON ARGUES IN FAVOR OF THE N-WORD. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY BLOG ON THE N-WORD AND THE SONG “N-IN PARIS” please check out my blog on Black Atheism -THE PEOPLE’S MIC
thepeoplesmic.blogspot.com
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 4 weeks ago 2
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 How true!!!
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 I just read the blog article you recommended and I totally agree with you. The hip hop sub culture, and its characteristic dumbing down by misspelling words and the use of the N-word, is another contemporary variation of the black-faced minstrel. Jay Z is yet another incarnation of steppin fetchit and a well paid collaborator with the system of racism white supremacy; his millions notwithstanding. True self-resect and dignity are then truly priceless.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@salahudeenabduladl Thanks for understanding.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 23 hours ago
I'm white and I wish this word was never used in anything other than in a historical context. To ME, that word has repressed and held the black community captive. If anything, it holds more power now than ever and not in a good way. I don't understand how a word that embodies such disgraceful part of history is something now to be proud of. By using it as a term of endearment and injecting in to pop culture, it's solidifying its spot in society. How do people expect the word to die?
ijreilly01 4 weeks ago 3
@ijreilly01 sorry, but words dont do that... Crack and Jim Crow is what held those people back and people like Dyson are keeping it alive... its pompousity without predication...complacency without arbitration... I dont see so-called blacks as Blacks because over 30% of them are mixed with other ethnic groups anyway western African peoples we call black people are really Hamitics (religious sentiments) or Saharan natives who later became known as the bantuans, I like to call "Iron Settlers"
MrYetzchaq 2 weeks ago
@ijreilly01 Exactly!!!! This man is the epitome of an "educated fool." It is distinctly possible that he is an agent provocateur meant to facilitate the corruption of black society from within. The fact that so many blacks in the audience are clapping for this misguided pseudo intellectual is quite telling and a travesty of black culture.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@ijreilly01 It is particularly backward for anyone--especially a black person--to actually campaign for the legitimization of the N-word. A word that was created by the most hateful and afrophobic oppressors and tormentors of blacks. Such behavior indicates the lingering effects of what Dr. Joy Degruy-Leary calls post traumatic slave disorder.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@ijreilly01 Essentially, such blacks who whole heartedly embrace and rationalize the N-word, as a staple of black culture, are manifesting something of a pathology and an inner, insidious sense of self-loathing.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@ijreilly01 People are allowed our own opinions but not our own facts. It is incontrovertible that the N-word has a particular negative energy and the perpetuation of its use is concomitant with the bastardization and vitiation of black culture. Such justifiers of its use are indulging in sophistry and specious reasoning.
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@ijreilly01 Can you imagine a Jew seeking to legitimize the use of the epithet "kike"? Of course not!!! When it comes to the black community there seems to be a particular faction that works very hard to maintain our culture and people on the most retrograde and obscurantist level. How can a people begin to progress when such a fundamental issue as the use of a derogatory term, meant to demean, has actually been embraced and celebrated by them? This is the epitome of backwardness!!!
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
He's A GOD
MegaSleepercell 1 month ago
Fucking brilliant speech, but America as a society is too content with the lies we've been told to actually deal with the monster that we've unwillingly created.
squarecracker 1 month ago
"That's some motherfucken Articulations...lol Amen!
raza1st 2 months ago
@raza1st Articulation do not equate wisdom nor intellectuality!!!
MrYetzchaq 2 weeks ago
@MrYetzchaq I disagree. Words and language are a direct reflection of the mind, excluding some extra sensory ability. What is the point of having profound insight if that person cannot communicate it?
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Tellthetruth61 6 days ago
Rubbish. He tries too hard to be popular with the young crowd instead of telling them the hard truth.
JimBowie1133 2 months ago
nailed it.
pong224 2 months ago
Dyson's comments are relative and true.
nhc521 2 months ago
Dyson really gets it....perfect analogy.
nhc521 2 months ago
He is a intelligent nigger is he not?(Oxymoron) I think I need to get in touch with my inner honkie or cracker right? I hate hearing about the slavery of the black people like they are clean and without any wrong doing. I don't see any of them wanting to return to their so called homeland now that they are free nor do we ever hear them talk about all the white people who argued and fought for their freedom or the underground railway used to smuggle them out during the civil war.
nexxuslord 3 months ago
@nexxuslord when did he say anything about slavery or that black people are how did you put it "clean and without any wrong doing." Why this comment, it has no relevance at all to Dr. Dysons discussion. So now it was the white people who argued and fought for our freedom and not us. We agree that a handful helped, and because of that it qualifies the masses of you who didn't to act as if white people gave us freedom instead of us fighting for it?
bmoe8880 3 months ago
@bmoe8880 The Joke is There is no such thing as a Intelligent Nigger it is an Oxymoron. Dyson is intelligent so therefor not a nigger. I did not say Black people did not fight for their freedom a handful of whites helped and you got your freedom huh? In Truth I am sick of Racism and history actually shows every color race human kind has been enslaved by another we all need to get over it and admit that all lines are guilty of this but then again God Almighty supports slavery even though I don't.
nexxuslord 2 months ago
@nexxuslord yes a handful helped, man and here I was thinking almost all those people in the civil rights photos and news broadcasts were black people. Again, why are you talking about slavery there was no mention of it in the video? 'We all need to get over it " seems to me that you have more of a problem with it than anyone else considering you brought it up. "I don't see any of them wanting to return to their so called homeland" sounds kinda racist to me.
bmoe8880 2 months ago
@nexxuslord
Right on, but it's an oversimplification. The hypocrisy of America is that we created a free society for ALL men. We me agree that there is a cultural undercurrent of hatred and ignorance in the black community, but I contend that this is a result of the institutions whites put in place. You can't take the issues facing blacks in America out of context, but only as a part of the whole. Black people need economic equality, by any means.
squarecracker 1 month ago
@squarecracker i cannot speak for America, but in Australia there is at the very least, equality. Aboriginals-part of the same Negroid racial classification are given incredible educational benefits, housing benefits etc. because of their race. I have a police scanner in my truck and in a southern suburb of my city-an Aboriginal left her 2 year old child at McDonalds while she went home to pull bongs. Why does that happen even here-with one of the highest human development indexes in the world?
likedatniggawade 1 month ago
@likedatniggawade Aboriginals or Native Austronesians are not from the same stock as the Negroid but from a totally different branch who left not Africa, but India and Burma. Superficial people see people mostly from their physical appearances over the cultural and genetic ones... Thats like me saying Germans and Romans were from the same branch, or greeks and Slavs, or even celts and Iberians (yet they share a common ancestry closer than the other tribes such as the Illyrians and the Saxons.)
MrYetzchaq 2 weeks ago
@MrYetzchaq They all left Africa, and you are right they did come from the south east Asia region but they are of Negroid classification. Anthropological studies find similar cranial characteristics with Negritos and Melanesians also, all from south east Asia.
likedatniggawade 2 weeks ago
@likedatniggawade There are no wolves without sheep. No wealth without poverty. One cannot be on the top without something on the bottom. This ideology is the cancer. Better, Smarter, Stronger....The Übermensch (German for "Overman, Overhuman, Above-Human, Superman"
Man invented God ...Man wants to become God...or God like...but what's the point of being God if no one is going to worship you.
Tellthetruth61 6 days ago
Blacks are not being subject to eugenics or genocide. What a stupid statement. As a matter of record Blacks are reproducing at a rate faster than any other race. Look at the birth rates of Europeans, and Asians compared to Blacks.
patent4u100 3 months ago
@patent4u100 You really need to use some actual data.
upabittoolate 2 months ago
"Breeding out was a military and political policy that Greek,Roman and English rulers would use to complete the forced assimilation process of a conquered people, I feel great knowing that i speak two languages and learning a third. This is what Dr. Dyson is talking about expanding your mind.
raza1st 3 months ago
Donna Brazile looks bored to tears.
torr59622 3 months ago
Mr dyson is really an intelligent nigger
bouncewhisky 3 months ago
Ill agree with Dyson before alot of people, even if I dont agree with alot of things he says
Wgivens93 3 months ago
watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
daregreatly 3 months ago
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@lokhryu RE: "YOUR SLAVEMASTER GREATGREAT GRANDFATHER RAPING OUR BEAUTIFUL BLACKWOMEN" WHAT IF I SAID your coon twat great great grandpussy raped our beautiful white women? what would you think of me? racist perhaps? take a second and reflect on your own stupidity and you might deserve the freedoms we both enjoy. until then go to hell freak
daregreatly 3 months ago
@lokhryu "This guy is black" and "this guy is mulatto" pick one idiot... wow your racism is out of control... fool my "slavemaster grand daddy whatever" lived in Norway and worked in a copper mine. You have problems. Seek help you pathetic racist trash.
daregreatly 3 months ago
@lokhryu Racists like you make me sick. You are a racist, and yes there are TONS of black racists just lije you, fucking worthless unintellegent monkey. Fuck off, no one here owned slaves or has great great grandparents ownin slaves, you dumb coon.
elnyancat 3 months ago
@lokhryu I don't hate black people and that's an unintelligent generalization of white people. You fail.
Tetzukai 3 months ago
@lokhryu - Right....are you from Afrikkka?
gombis666 3 months ago
@lokhryu It's sad brother. I'm white and the women of my race hate our men for others, because of appearance! Asians killing themselves because Asian men aren't good enough, seriously c'mon lets get together!
elnyancat 3 months ago
This guy thinks he's "black" ???
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daregreatly 3 months ago
Black people need to stop blaming everyone else and get there shit together. You have the resources in your country and can't even get a dam job or school. Most the jails are filled with black people.
saywhat236 3 months ago
@lokhryu Racism will never die because of people like you. Black people just wont let it die because if you actually had to start not blaming white people for all there problems in 2011 still then they would have to look in the mirror at their own community and ask the question that is "why are so many black daddys walkin out on me and my mamma"? Finding the answer might cure a lot of the problems the black community is going through. No race hates your race.
adamk4747 4 months ago
@adamk4747 Please seek for the truth otherwise shut the fuck up!
140662amarildo 4 months ago
Look at this light skinned nigga (his words not mine) tryin to talk to MLK. (MLK is rollin in his grave when he sees this shit) This video right here is the reason why racism will never die. Black people just wont let it.
adamk4747 4 months ago
LOL! WTF! LOL!
csincali 4 months ago
I find it hilarious that as soon as someone mentions race issues, his point of view gets distorted. Did he say he doesn't love America? I've followed up on him for years. He's pointing at the issues going on everyday. Funny how you can say blacks need to get their act together but as soon as blacks mention any type of race issues, they're playing the race card. A lot blacks have their acts together and still harassed, beat down, searched, pulled over because they're driving nice cars.
iox214 4 months ago
I find it hilarious that as soon as someone mentions race issues, his point of view gets distorted. Did he say he doesn't love America? I've followed up on him for years. He's pointing at the issues going on everyday. Funny how you can say blacks need to get their act together but as soon as blacks mention any type of race issues, they're playing the race card. A lot blacks have their acts together and still harassed, beat down, searched, pulled over because they're driving nice cars.
iox214 4 months ago
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This video reminds me of a joke...
- What do you call a black man hangin from a tree?
-----Branch Manager.
- What do you call a black man in an old shed?
-----Antique Farm Equipment.
I'll be here all night folks.
GAdawg315 4 months ago
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This video reminds me of a joke...
- What do you call a black man hangin from a tree?
-----Branch Manager.
- What do you call a black man in an old shed?
-----Antique Farm Equipment.
I'll be here all night folks.
GAdawg315 4 months ago
This video reminds me of a joke...
- What do you call a black man hangin from a tree?
-----Branch Manager.
- What do you call a black man in an old shed?
-----Antique Farm Equipment.
I'll be here all night folks.
GAdawg315 4 months ago
nigger does mean black in an object form. the reason he saw it in Latin is because they used it to describe something thats black as a object (blackboard,black ball, black table). to except this word is to except being call an OBJECT. thats why as a black-man i will never except being call nigga negro nigger or anything associated with being a object slave
cloudwalkerty 4 months ago
Nigger.
DrPepperAndSteak 4 months ago
black version of bill o'rielly
kayrow 4 months ago
What is this bible shit he is coming out with?
arbide3 4 months ago
educated or not he mad a fool of himsel here sorry I just didn't get that . peace
JPtv3000 4 months ago
i am black this nigga is retarted, I believe in the real God of the Bible the only creator. he made 1 good point about the bible the rest was garbage. my opinuion
"words all misspelled"
JPtv3000 4 months ago
@JPtv3000 Is "YOUR GOD" ( The plagiarized concepts of the original HERU, later given a face and another name Serapus by Romans, later changed again by a Roman emperor named Constantine, who envied also the African peoples of Kemet , now known as "Egypt", later changed yet again and given a worldly campaign the 1st being Nicea, later yet another council creating a book called a bible, which also plagiarized Kemtic philosophy on real spiritual understanding etc etc ) really the "REAL GOD" LOL.
davisismail1comcast 4 months ago
@davisismail1comcast YOU must be under the impression, God of the Bible means catholasism. I'm of that way which is the way of Christ JESUS, find that in ya bible. Nigga or Nigger is a word that a person may accept as their personal self definition. Therefore as a man/childofGod I can not and will not swallow this. That Nword is for people who want the hand out that comes with it. The Nword is like a prostitute if want her YOU have to take all that comes with her. personally No Thanks. chk splng
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localSickened 4 months ago
Lol "niggidum" or however he said it lol
mertz313 5 months ago
To this day I've been a commited anti-racist, I've been and I still am affiliated with ARL (Anti-Racism League) but listening to these black leaders preaching and ONLY WORRYING about black people makes me wonder if the last ten or so years of my life I've been fighting against my own interests.
Hmmm...
JPVeigaaaa 5 months ago
he's 200% nigga
islespatrick 5 months ago
@gombis666 really that is a silly comment to make, this man is very educated and made complete sense ,re watch and pay close attention and you will learn something.
SuperFuzzy10 5 months ago
whatever man, nobody not calling me no nigga especially outside of the black race, its already bad enough how we just use the word for everything. Something just not right about that.
abobocar 5 months ago
where's the part where he says "I'm gonna eat his children"?
GCMaxProductions 5 months ago
@sonyradio2 get the fuck out!
dfg93353 5 months ago
niggers! kill em all!
SL8R71 5 months ago
that black lady next to him looks uncomfortable when he stars saying Nigga
mimi3349 6 months ago
Sounds like a bunch of shit. I read a lot of Dyson, but this is a load shit.
sonyradio2 6 months ago
This guy definitely does not speak for all Black people. He speaks for the ones who clapped.
Satansoppressed 6 months ago 2
@Satansoppressed Amen!!!!
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@xcalibur4l says someone without multiple doctorate degrees.
dfg93353 6 months ago
this guy just talks so much rubbish most of the time. he things by doing a juve/rap talk with big grammar, that means he is smart and educated.
sorry to bust ur bubble mate, u are so smart
xcalibur4l 6 months ago
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tinasheroy 6 months ago
@xcalibur4l i can bet my everything, that you are not even nearly qualified enough to even make such a critical comment about a proffessor with a PhD. where do you think he got his certificates from, stole them? go back to school will yah
tinasheroy 6 months ago
@tinasheroy undergraduate and msc degee holder in mechanical engineer and didnt earn mine by affirmative action dick head. by the way i am nigerian
xcalibur4l 6 months ago
@xcalibur4l ok then smart pants, why do you have to tell me you're nigerian?? I didn't call you a racist I just said you're not qualified enough to make such a comment about someone whose obviously well educated and clearly I was right. And affirmative action doesn't give people degrees it just gives them a fair shot at getting one. So don't think you're better than people who get into tertiary education because of it.. my question still stands were do you think he got his PhD from, heaven??
tinasheroy 6 months ago
@tinasheroy he got a PhD doing a shit corse.period. it is not like he stdied engineering or pharmacy for example. from the way he always talks he seems to have a PhD in "playing the race card studies",hahaha.i think the guy is a waste of space.
all he does is jive talk and thinks he is smart. no he is dumb.
Affirmative action is not a fairr system cos it gives preferrial treatment to certain groups.
I know will start educting on why its there but i still think its bullshit
xcalibur4l 6 months ago
@xcalibur4l
LOL, are you talking about Dyson? The man is highly intelligent. And no shit he didn't study engineering/pharamacy. Why in God's name would he provide political commentary if he had a degree in Engineering or Pharmaceuticals?
You don't understand the significance of affirmative action, yet you feel you're qualified to give your opinion on Dyson's commentary on race...
"the guy is a waste of space..all he does is jive talk"
Plain ignorant.
boredfun91 6 months ago
@boredfun91 if dyson were me lecturer i will ask for a refund plain and simple.
he is definately intelligent all right.but intelligent at race baiting like al sharpton,nothing else.
if u find dyson intelligent then all i can say is black americans are toast.its no wonder u guys are the bottom of society.hahaha
xcalibur4l 6 months ago
@xcalibur4l I don't think you have an understanding of the complexity of race relations in this country and around the world and how much it affects a black perspective in America. I don't think you have an understanding of colonial inculcation around the world. Nor do you have an understanding of the effects of a Eurocentric education upon Black students or white students for that matter. I think all you see is his style of communication and infer that he must be devoid of serious content.
CompleteAbstractionZ 5 months ago
@tinasheroy i will feel ashamed if i got a place at college sing affirmative action.hahaha
it doesnt feel right. i breeds dumb people/.
xcalibur4l 6 months ago
Not convinced. I didn't feel comfortable gleely saying nigga when I was little, I don't feel comfortable saying it now, though I use it in discussions and for that purpose only.
HybridD91 6 months ago
fucking nigger if i ever saw one
XxMalcolm 6 months ago
Facts.African American unemployment has gone up under president obama.Facts..Blacks have had more abortions since Obama has been in office.He is 50% white after all and his Black aunt lives in section 8 housing.Black people need to stop adding race first, infront of commonsense.Facts are facts.
Madcowrage 6 months ago
@Madcowrage what a pointless comment, obama's not president of black people but the USA. these trends that you mention are universal, ie you not only find them in black, but white, hispanic and chinese communities as well, so whats your point?
tinasheroy 6 months ago
@Madcowrage Amen!!!
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
This video is not worthy of comment. Dyson is a hack, race hustler. I wish I could debate him after all his articles I read in law school. Dyson, if you don't like this country, Delta has flights every day!! The man is a virulent racist and does not believe that people are responsible for themselves. I have had the opportunity to live in many countries not one of them endorses "You owe me something" . If Blacks want to "get their act together" then do it, and stop complaining!!!
patent4u100 7 months ago
@patent4u100 who is he racists against again and how? explain cause that i dont understand at all. and by blacks getting their act together you mean, waking up tomorrow, going to school, getting jobs and earning 50 grand a year? to you its as simple as that isnt it? i seriously doubt you'd have a chance debating Dyson
tinasheroy 6 months ago
@patent4u100 Okay Im with you on the whole Nigga, Nigger, thing being used as a term of endearment, in other words i don't subscribe to it either. My issue brotha is that we must also shake the shackle of Colonial religion. the bible, is the bible is the bible, despite the semantics, which further confuse those who won't do the real research. if you except 'their' deity, their rituals, along with their book, you are giving real energy to that which is the last vestige of our mental bondage.
davisismail1comcast 4 months ago
@patent4u100 @gombis666 I'm sorry but who are you? What have you done to try to improve the African-American communities. Where can I get your books explaining your view point on complex issues?
Michael Dyson has help me better understand myself and countless others. If anyone is full of talk with little substance then I think it would be you two.
CostlyChris 3 months ago
@CostlyChris What complex issues? Dont' deal drugs?: Don't join a gang?: Don't have kids you can't take care of?; Get an education and stay in school? Tell me, which of these is not a problem in the Black community? I should not be required to write "books" concerning what your parents should have taught you. The U.S. got a" Black" President, elected by the white majority, but still complain, complain, complain. Trust me I would not be as educated as I am without encountering people like Dyson.
patent4u100 3 months ago
@patent4u100 I wasn't complaining just pointing out your a nobody to this conversation. All the things you mention are problems but your completely lost as to the reason why. It's obvious reading your reply and what does Obama has to do with anything? He isn't even African-American he's a African of European descent and his upbringing was FAR from the typical Black experience but thats not A or B. Who are you? some law school student? wow your a very creditable source to listen too.
CostlyChris 3 months ago
@CostlyChris I have not been a law student for years now. Thank you for recognizing that Obama is not totally African but also of European decent. I mentioned Obama because people are always saying there are not any" Black" role models, this man is the most powerful (but incompetent) person in the world. Tell me what exactly is the reason why Blacks continue to complain about poverty, lack of opportunity, racism etc.. Has society and I not heard this for at least the last 20 years?
patent4u100 3 months ago
@patent4u100 okay to put it as simply as possible even though slavery has end there has never been any credible effort to even out the economical playing field and although Affirmative Action does exist there has been so much resistance and begrudging of the practice White women actually became the main winners of it. Crack was let loose on our communities so that Reagan could have war money and institutional racism creates a climate where even mentioning injustice gets a Ad hominem reply.
CostlyChris 3 months ago
@patent4u100 You and society may of heard it but it goes through one ear and out the other with little tiptoes of progression in between which gets met with extreme hostility and criticism at every corner. Hate to generalize but white people resist change is historical. Whites in the 70s told blacks that things change for better compared to the 40s so we shouldn't complain and today we're told America post racial and any claim of racism is now racist. Hell America can't even let Goku be Asian.
CostlyChris 3 months ago
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@CostlyChris What complex issues? Dont' deal drugs?: Don't join a gang?: Don't have kids you can't take care of?; Get an education and stay in school? Tell me, which of these is not a problem in the Black community? I should not be required to write "books" concerning what your parents should have taught you. The U.S. got a" Black" President, elected by the white majority, but still complain, complain, complain. Trust me I would not be as educated as I am without encountering people like Dyson
patent4u100 3 months ago
@patent4u100 just because someone calls out problems with this country doesn't mean you should move
Wgivens93 3 months ago
@patent4u100 wow... so the tables have been turned against those who rile against a system that has oppressed others for centuries (and it still does today).. He is simply touching on issues that YOU and your ilk are afraid of hearing.. you my friend are the racist. Please educate yourself... start by researching the origins of terms like genocide and eugenics and those who profited and still profit from this system you so defend...
wachawivu 3 months ago
@wachawivu I know the meaning of eugenics, do you? I spent part of my childhood in Germany and have relatives that survived the Nazi regime! Blacks are not being systematically breeded out, idiot. Tell me what society on earth that at one time or another has not been oppressed? The Muslims of North Africa enslaved parts of Europe. And then tell me what other country has tried so hard to right the wrongs done to others?
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wachawivu 3 months ago
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Oh wow so you are literate, and you can honestly sit there and claim that Blacks (whatever that means) are not being bred out? since you claim to be knowledgeable on Eugenics then you are familiar of the works of the likes of Francis Galton and his peers and their research on the so called blacks.The fact of the matter is that indigenous peoples around the world are being systematically wiped by the same culprits who determine what you learn and how you think...
wachawivu 3 months ago
Black people need to change the way the world looks at them.Not by complaining but by stepping back and taking a good look at the behavior the world sees on the news,YouTube,etc.If you see a Pitbull walking down the street unleashed would you walk up and pet it? If no why not?Not all Pitbulls are bad.A good number of black people would rather be cool(acting ghetto)then becoming a productive part of if society.Unite,pull your pants up,speak proper English and watch the change
123lip03 7 months ago 2
@123lip03 proper english?? english wasn our language in the first place... you take away creative pepole away from what they know,they do with what they have. besides that... yal paying to much attention to the people(way they talk, etc..)than yal do to the problem....zombies lol. what we need to do is come together out a way to figure eachother out(black people) that way we can understand and grow instead of avoiding and tearing eachother down over....dumbshit( the way they talk).
Southsidemikesmith 3 months ago
True!!!! Love him
flavamagazine 7 months ago
This was some verbal diahrrhea...a bunch of shit. Sometimes Dyson talks just to hear himself talk. Lot's of words...little substance.
gombis666 7 months ago 7
@gombis666 That what I was thinking but too afraid to say because he has degrees. Thank You.
benisturning30 5 months ago
@gombis666 lol so many words you cant keep up huh?
MrTizzzzzle 4 months ago
@MrTizzzzzle - yea its funny in that a person can spew so much bullshit but actually say nothing at all.
gombis666 4 months ago
@gombis666 if it's bullshit then of course it's nothing at all but if it's something you can't comprehend, then your brain misunderstood what your ears heard
MrTizzzzzle 4 months ago
People that have an issue with the word nigger or nigga are seriously insecure. It's the same with people that have an issue with so called curse words. These are all words which should only be offensive after considering the context in which they are used.
TheLazyAngel89 7 months ago
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Mike Dyson is not ignorant- yall say that shit because you have nothing intelligent to say. You cant refute HIS OPINION (which is not fact) with information so you call him ignorant.
You know whats ignorant? Calling someone else ignorant when you're completely blank.
stringerboi 7 months ago
He is one articulate fellow. Not many people can debate such an intelligent foe.
stringerboi 7 months ago
Nigger, Nigga, Naga I love it keep using the word but make sure you refer to me personally. This goes for anybody!
supreme12 8 months ago
Donna Brazile looks like she wants to smack him. What a blowhard.
torr5962 8 months ago
Why is it that these days it feels like a white kid who never gets out of the trailer park is just lazy and stupid... but the black kid selling crack to his mom, and eventually probably him is oppressed, and there is an obvious "boot print" in his forehead from where the white man has kept him down? And by the way, there are no lines to read between. "And this is essentially a black perspective." It goes both ways, and I pay no mind to a community who doesn't care about me.
charlescmyers 8 months ago
@charlescmyers because as a white person in america, you have unearned privilege that black people do not have. If that white kid who never gets out of the trailer took the simple step of cleaning up and putting on a suit, he has a much higher chance of landing a job than the black kid who does the same thing. If you have opportunities available to you, and you fail to use them, you are lazy and stupid, while if you are provided no opportunities, you are oppressed, it is simple as that
unvmyskills 7 months ago
@unvmyskills You have succinctly explained the dichotomy between the reason for most white peoples' lack of upward mobility and that of black people in America. Yet whites, in their supremacist arrogance and narcissism, project their own reasons for their circumstances onto blacks, whose conditions have come about for quite different reasons.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@unvmyskills What is most offensive is that these whites summarily deny having undeserved privileges relative to blacks. A study by Devah Pager revealed that whites with a high school diploma and a criminal record are more likely to obtain employment than a black male with no record and a college degree. This is a most egregious indication of blacks being oppressed in America. And whites experiencing a form of Affirmative Action, if you will, via discrimination and afrophobia, not govt aid.
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
@unvmyskills The white male anti-racism white supremacy activist named Tim Wise identified statistics that indicate white people are TWICE as likely to believe that Elvis Presley is still alive than to believe that racism white supremacy is still an issue in America relative to blacks' quality of life. INCREDIBLE!!!!
salahudeenabduladl 1 week ago
by nigger he means anyone that has experienced injustice because of their race, he is not justifying the use of the word. Read between the DAMN lines
MsRetrofunk 8 months ago
This is bullshit.
TheICEberg06 8 months ago
He is obviously an affirmative action hire. His assessment of globalisation is flawed. 200 million people, in China, were emancipated from poverty due to the global economy. He also uses terms wrong, you can not use a word with promiscuity. I am so glad I don't go to university in America, and I feel sorry for this Professor's student. He has allowed his politics to over take his reason.
andrewhillca 8 months ago
this guy is so fake! i consider myself both black and white, but nigga or nigger, or whatever you want to call it is not used by most blacks across the globe, we as blacks need to stop using labels to describe or define who or what we are, we are not homies, thugs, dogs, gangstas, pimps, playas, hoes, bitches, motha fuckas, we are and should always be men and women, the more we degrade ourselves with labels, the more we lose our since of manhood and womanhood.
bran1226 8 months ago
The problem with "nigger" is that it was given to black African slaves by the Portuguese and not for any other race. Let's use a name we have given ourselves, not a name someone has given to us. It funny how we won"t call ourselves Negro, rightly so. But then we will turn around and call ourselves NIGGER (NIGGA)? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US! Wonder why others don't respect us. We don't fully respect ourselves!
Fiercefist 9 months ago
As long as anyone sees this person as "black", "african american", or "nigger", or the other way around "white", "whitey", etc, mental illness won´t let him think. Has anyone thought that beneath hair, skin, muscle, etc we all have a skull? Some of us, it seems, also, a brain? There are "niggers" everywhere, as Mr. Dyson says, and today´s niggers xould be tomorrow´s whiteys, or the other way around, as a matter of fact we are all going to hell in a few years!
alecalamar1 9 months ago
i know this is off topic but wats funny about "color" debate is that technically black is not a color but white is ^^ just saying..
nertos466 9 months ago
Mike Dyson is truly ignorant. If you think otherwise then you may be as well. Not a ids….I’m just saying. Read more.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
@duckmaster50 He is an ignorant fool.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
@TwinBullet Thank you for being smart….spread it around.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
the woman next to him is thinking: "damn this guy memorised the dictionary"
defmanify 9 months ago
For those who said that you didn't hear address the problem maybe you're aren't that intelligent. The brother just told you that the word has more power in how we disproptionately take the rights of those who can't defend themselves. That's what a 21st century nigga is.,...
SportsKritik 9 months ago
WHAT AN IDIOT! JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU WERE BRIGHT…..ANOTHER IGNORANT WELL READ DUMMY. THE “N” WORD IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO “US”! YOU NEED BETTER UNDERSTANDING…”BROTHA"
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 I didn't hear him say anything on the "N" word
lakendrawriter 9 months ago
niggerdom?aint? really? this just doesnt soundlike it was thought out that well
kees0702 9 months ago
@kees0702 its called spice.. he added it to his speech for dramatic effect. hes a professor at an ivy league university; he thought it out very well
dbfro1 9 months ago
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yea all that eduaction and still..i think a serious discusion on social matters as this doesnt need any more drama idk imo im all for advancement but that word along with others is degrading and moraly offensive but to each his own i guess :)
kees0702 9 months ago
@dbfro1 YOU CAN “THINK” IT OUT AS WELL AS YOU LIKE. THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS IGNORANT. AND WHAT DOES HIS JOB TITLE HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT HE SAID? “STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES”. YOU SEEM VERY IMPRESSED WITH JOB TITLES OVER SUBSTANCE. “SPICE” PLEASE READ MORE.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
@dbfro1 YOU CAN “THINK” IT OUT AS WELL AS YOU LIKE. THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS IGNORANT. AND WHAT DOES HIS JOB TITLE HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT HE SAID? “STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES”. YOU SEEM VERY IMPRESSED WITH JOB TITLES OVER SUBSTANCE. “SPICE” PLEASE READ MORE.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 dr michael eric dyson isnt an ignorant person, and neither am i. u fail to understand wit and context, and bc of that ur unable to understand dyson's point. im not gonna explain it to you, esp since u seem to think im too stupid to do so. if u wanna have an intelligent conversation with me, ill oblige. otherwise, keep it movin.
dbfro1 9 months ago
@dbfro1 I dare you to look up Mr Dyson’s stance on the “N” word, then tell me he’s not ignorant.
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
@QUANTUMMECHANIC720 this vid IS his stance on the word. i dont have to go looking for dysons view of the word. and no, hes not ignorant. for black people, that word is as personal as any word in our language. each african american should be able to have their own opinion on it, esp since each african american has prob had their own experiences w/ the word.
dbfro1 9 months ago
@dbfro1 We don’t have to have it embraced by “public intellectuals”
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
he a professor saying aint, he ignorant
impellernut 10 months ago
dyson for president
dirtyplaya 10 months ago
this debate is pointless u cant stop people from using a word 100 years from now "nigga" gon be a very casual worf like "brother", "blood","couz"...
NicKingPapiChulo 10 months ago
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I can't percieve why this word is filled with so much hatred, so pardon my ignorence. If we're going to understand where this term derived from then black people are hating a term that was used generations ago, now it is understandable why a black people can be against a white person saying this word but, isn't it also understandable for a white person not to understand the importance of this word, I mean it's not like we lived within those generations.
Synthespion 10 months ago
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I can't percieve why this word is filled with so much hatred, so pardon my ignorence. If we're going to understand where this term derived from then black people are hating a term that was used generations ago, now it is understandable why black people can be against a white person saying this word but, isn't it also understandable for a white person not to understand the importance of this word, I mean it's not like we lived within those generations.
Synthespion 10 months ago
I can't percieve why this word is filled with so much hatred, so pardon my ignorence. If we're going to understand where this term derived from then black people are hating a term that was used generations ago, now it is understandable why black people can be against a white person saying this word but, isn't it also understandable for white people not to understand the importance of this word, I mean it's not like we lived within those generations.
Synthespion 10 months ago
nigga! NIGGER! it ain't racist
AtheismCentral 10 months ago
@AtheismCentral Ignorant!
QUANTUMMECHANIC720 9 months ago
hes not even a nigger
ybot1983 10 months ago
B R A V O O O O ! ! ! !
MortalRon08 10 months ago
black people are not niggas,
what the fuck is niggadom?please somebody explain that to me.
Niggadom what the fuck is that?
is that like the black race?
what does niggadom mean?
RespectMyHate 10 months ago
"niggadom" ROFLROFL He's too awesome. I love this man.
Xoulstyle 10 months ago
that dyson guy looks like hes 80% white. hes got an inferiority complex
brainsinCan 10 months ago
Im not black but growing up in a big city I feel like a nigga. I've had to face discrimination because of my race. People hate on me just because Im white. Im a minority where I live. In high school I found out that minority just ment not white. I looked up the how much of the population was white and we came in at the bottem; Just above native americans, but they dont consider me a minority. Its just away to exclude me. When I started college I didnt get any minority scholarships. I get a bill.
saintpatricksmilitia 11 months ago