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  • Did poetry with Julian at Busboys&poets in DC, Many blacks get upset with anyone who use the

    word nigger in their poetry and try to defind those who do as sell-outs. These self=proclaim black

    inteliectual aren't down the hood. You see them talk shows being the safe nigger that whites aren't

    afraid of and I'll continue to use the word where it's appropriate.

  • see its people like yall @12dkoons @ShaxAMV AND ATLnyuckanumberone dat make us look forward to da future yall think makin comments like will break us as black ppl but to be honest yall just make us stronger

  • suck nigger cock

    

  • Proud to not be a nigger

  • i wish this nigger would shut up about niggers already

  • Damn this is deep

  • I love this poem, and I hate the word.

  • Check out ..."Ain't I black" by "Elliott Curry" just search "Elliott Curry" no relation to Julian

  • Powerful Poem

  • Can't we all just enjoy this mans poem ? Must everything be an argument ? If you have nothing good to say than don't say nothing .

  • proud bahamian

  • I love this.

  • !!!!

  • Nigga please.

  • @fuckingtrollguy123 you best be trollin roody-poo

  • This was so deep. I love the presentation... Ugh Its so well written. Very true

  • Such a hypocrite Because all black People use the N Word hundred of times so if you want use the Young Generation to stop using the word, Then you so call Black Who say they don't use the word, REALLY STOP USING THE DAMN WORD

  • @MrBoockey All black people use the word hundreds of times? Wtf are you talking about. You mean the black people in the media you see on TV. I'm black I never use the word I substitue it with saying "the N word." I didn't even know the word existed until I was 10 when I was called that by a white person. I live with an all black family and I have yet to hear my reletives use the word (even when they are piss ass drunk) and even today I see more white people use the word than black.

  • @super1upmushroom I HATE when people say "I never use the word I substitute it". Do you realize how DUMB that sounds? If you sub "nigga" with "the N word", it's like saying you had "no pie" cause you ate 1 slice not ate the whole thing. YOU STILL HAD PIE!!! It's not saying the word, it's saying what you know the other person will understand. "The N word" is just another term "derived from..." So if saying "nigga" is no different than "nigger", then "the N word" is equally bad.

  • @mysteryko First of all when a parent doesn't want to swear but wants to explain something that REQUIRES the word they say "the F word" or some shit. I don't like using the N word but when I HAVE TO I substitute it.

  • @super1upmushroom you don't HAVE to use it.

  • @mysteryko and your analogy makes no fucking sense

  • @MrBoockey I know there are black people who use it as often as the word "the" but that is not ALL black use the word. It's funny how people still think all black people still do.

  • My niggaa

  • This is complicated. I don't think it is just as simple as this young man says it is. It is not just Black people being "dumb". I think it goes deeper. I think it is about embracing something that was supposed to be shameful and turning it around into something "normal". It's like how in the past society said it was shameful to be black... but now suddenly we are supposed to all be non-racial - colourless. We need time first to be black and proud before we can accept being colourless.

  • Im not black but i hear this word alot and sometimes when im outside people like To say "finna" or "whats up nigga" around and to me and sometimes i feel very annoyed that such an awful word is being said to me in that type of context. Hear me out, i use the word for the fun of it, but not to walk up to someone and say "whats up nigga"

  • @christianandavery

    I don't think using it for the fun of it makes it any less disrespectful. I hear you out.

  • @julius333 actually, the slave masters said it both ways. in the deep country type south they said it with an "a" at the end a lot. I asked my great aunt. Her grandpa told her horrid stories.

  • Awesome but how hypocritical are the crowd? Laughing when he first came on sayin N**** n then applauding him for slamming its use

  • @FDRTYLJ

    He was awesome. Though the crowd was not hypocritical, they were simply surprised and then realized how they were wrong. You might want to dictionary "hypocrite" :/

  • If nigga is such a bad word to use in the Black people community, Black people should stop speaking English all together. We were stripped from our origianl language and culture, so why are we addressing one word instead of the many dumb things Black people do

  • @1000gohead

    See past the "bad" and look at how hes trying to illustrate the sign of disrespect to African ancestors by using the word(s) "nigga or nigger". I don't understand the whole stripped from our original language part you're trying to say, we all still have the freedom to go back to our roots and learn. Reading from your comment, it's pretty much relative to "If I keep double dribbling in basketball, I should quit altogether." We all do dumb things, not just black people.

  • @InevitableCommotion Nigga derived from Ngu, Nga, Negus, Neteru, Nagas etc. We used the word before Europeans came on the scene. Freedom to go back to our roots? Can you lead me there, I'm still trying to find it. What if I told you we were already here living in America. Google images: Bonampak. Soon everyone will know, or at least those interested in the truth. America is one big lie

  • I am not black but I find it very disturbing how lack of disrespect black kids show toward not just others on trains and buses and on the streets but also toward their own ppl...

  • This guy is awesome.

  • I feel every African American needs to listen to this because This dude spoke the pure TRUTH!

  • good message - powerful 

  • TOO DEEP...LOVE IT

  • damn dood this nigger is right but i dont give a fuck nigga

  • Awesome poem im still waitin in Hov to make a song entitled "The ppl formally known as niggas"

  • thank you sacred lunar universal spirituality of ecstatic and explicit language glossosalia slang and derigibletory terms and chaos blessings, the Shekinah indwelling blossoms now to a deeper compassion enlightenment through sheer beauty, poetry, and heartfeltedness, now ringing true in honest trickster rainbow harmonies OF MYSTICISM(!!!), this is the divine music of the spheres, its all in good spirits!

    OMM FUCK

    still raving

    let 'er rip!

    plur!

    this is the end of all suffering

  • amazing, clean clean clean ending

  • Then why do the fucking rap naggers have the word niggas all throughout their songs? I don't get it. Make up "your" fucking mind.

  • @AllenWynnGeorgia That was the whole point of the poem... it's not acceptable yet people still use the word. Did you not listen to it properly?

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  • God damn this is just way too black.

  • @maradona87 what do you mean by ''too black''? Just a question. no ofense

  • @indy1391 None taken. I just think it's dripping in blackness, this level of blackness doesn't occur naturally, it feels a little forced. Much love for the brothers though, don't get me wrong...

  • @maradona87 Okay. Got you. Merry Christmas ^_^

  • @indy1391 And a Merry Christmas to you!

  • Dang nigga. This nigga is the nigga. I wonder what he thinks about other niggas.

  • Dang this niggas a white boy like a lil bitch

  • A disgusting word that was made only to spread and create hate. No matter who says it and no matter the context.

  • .....nigga please j/k

  • wack ass NYIGGA

  • Damn..Deep..

  • people are stupid sayin nigga isnt nigger, where do you think the word derived from? it was pronounced as nigga because of southern accents.

  • @ikenna45 No one cares what it derived from, it gained it's on definition and is not the same word amongst the African American community.

  • @Julius333 first off if no one cared where it derived from there wouldnt be so much controversey over its use, its definition is the only reason why it is frowned upon and second who the fuck are you to tell me how something is in the african american community...IM BLACK you fucking tard

  • @ikenna45 First off you're an idiot, no one said people didn't care where "nigger" derived from it was for "nigga" as "nigga" has never been associated with "nigger" amongst the African American community when used for one another.

    And so what you're black, I'm black too, what the fuck you want? A medal?

  • @Julius333 no you fucking nimrod nigga came from the southerners who said nigga like nigger cause theyre accents and maybe you arent smart enough to fucking realize it but most blacks dont take kindly to that word...im black so how the fuck are you gunna tell me that black people dont care about being called a nigga

  • @ikenna45 I know where it derived from you imbecile. If Black people didn't like calling each other "nigga" then this video wouldn't exist, or it wouldn't haven been so prominent in 90's music & film of the the African American culture. Your problem is you won't accept the difference between "nigger" and "nigga" because you're so stuck on "nigga" not being "nigga" but a mispronouncing of "nigger". Once again, I'm Black too, was the medal not enough, do you want a Nobel Peace Prize?

  • @Julius333 maybe if you actually looked at my fucking post you would understand i said most blacks dont appreciate the use of the word nigga but maybe you think to much like a "nigga" to understand what im saying

  • i have never been so ashamed of being a white man. i here this word everyday tossed around by all races and it pisses me off.

  • @offRo4D I would be ashamed if I were you too. Since you are not proud of your white heritage, BE ashamed.

  • @UndecidedSouthMS im proud of the heritage of my family, for i was raised right. but why should i be proud of the history of the typical "white" discriminatory view?

  • deep 

  • uncomfortable is right :O xx

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  • This poem is amazing and for all you dumb asses that don't understand it that's a damn shame. It really shows the ignorance of human nature, not only with black folks but it can be connected with all races and people. For everyone that try's to clam "nigga" is different from "nigger" there is no significant difference and it's an embarrassment that black people still use it today.

  • @MidnightH3ro thank you thank you thank you I sooo agree I can't stand it............

  • @MidnightH3ro

    Please explain the difference sir.

  • I get chills EVERY time!

  • Wow the racism on here is unbelievable I'm sure this is not what he wanted and its only making the ones who use it look stupid smh. Grow up we're not going back to Africa or any of that nonsense smh

  • Nigga.

  • this came up yesterday wen one of my friends used the word in a songs lyrics he put on facebook but spelt it 'Nigger'....there was one of our black mates who thinks I didnt understand because, I said in whatever sense the use of the word in modern black society was holding them back but he said it was a reclaimed word and non blacks shouldnt use it. I sed every1 can use it or no one bcoz I feel u cant hold their ancestors actions against them but you also cannot forget wot urs went through.

  • I appreciate his mentality, someone who isn't applied to this tried apply his/her-self to the situation. You don't fit with anyone unless behave. So they aren't bipolar SuperRavensfan5220, you just haven't the political and social aspects of it. which actually goes deeper than the word "bipolar".

  • @Niggeritarian ......Niggaz

  • Very Real!

  • Its amazing how black folks fully understand how they are holding themselves back these days, yet still go back in to the same mentality that they always been in. Pick how you wanna live and stay that way you bipolar motha fuckers. You wanna be hood, then be hood but dont be doing this back and forth shit.

  • @Niggeritarian Dude...

  • @Niggeritarian Dude...

  • this is frickin amazing. gave me chills.

  • FINALLY! Another black person denouncing the fucking word and in such a beautifully poetic way! As a black person, I never and will not use that word. It's embarrassing! Thank you, Mr. Curry! x

  • @Niggeritarian He is saying nigger in the poem to make a point. Pay attention to the poem

  • @Niggeritarian are you really that dumb? hahhahaa

  • This poem makes me feel real uneasy. Signs that it really got it's point across!

  • @Niggeritarian Did you not listen to what he was talking about? He's using it because he's trying to get through to ppl by using the word to explain it. Open your ears.

  • too bad they moved north....... when we bought them, we never knew we would be stuck with them

  • That is so fuking powerful, i am a 37 year old white canadian and this brought tears to my eyes!

  • I'm still waitin' on Jay-Z to drop that song called "The People Formerly Known as Niggas"

  • @KikesChinksNiggers Shit, I typed in "niggers are beautiful." How did we end up on the same video?

  • WOW!!

  • some white people in the media warned black people about this ages ago ...but you black people thought it was cool to have a word white people couldnt say..

    just know this, when you say that word some white people have flashes in their brain about you being in the past, merchandise, about owning you and land

  • Thank you! Wittgenstein said: "Language causes reality" - this piece is sad proof. Again, thank you for uploading. I feel so naive everytime I wonder if one day noone will think of any race as superior or inferior. This video makes me feel less stupid and hopeless. Greetings from germany. Haters gonna hate!

  • @Venomous513, yes i did spell ignorant wrong on purpose. And no they do not have the same meaning kid, now call me your pops because i just sonned you. Nigger and Nigga is two different meanings kid read a book

  • This guy should be the real black president some day, damn this was hard!

  • Nigga and bigger is the same thing. Black people drop the "er" off ever word n replace it wit an "an"... stop making excuses for ur ignorance

  • i think the problem with a lot of people is they just don't know the history of that word...to many schools ..slavery is just a bunch of numbers and statistics..they took this many to this place..they were sold for this much and worked on this place..people don't understand how these HUMAN BEINGS were living

  • This poem is whack.........just for the simple fact that nigger and nigga is two different words with two different meanings. nigger- To be stupid ignerent. nigga- ghetto ebonics formed in the hood.

  • @Kannon5123 it is the same think if chink became chinq and think if wetback became wetbag this races dont call them selces that.we shouldnt degrade ourselves for entertenment .

  • @mahdi0123456789 but chinks and wetbacks werent degraded throughout US history to the point where the word is controversial. Chink and wetbacks are just fun ignorant terms that were brought up as a joke but niggers is the term used for struggle, inequality, etc etc. NIGGAS is a term of endearment that flipped the negative connotation of the previous word. "niggers are people who had ropes hanging off their necks from trees, niggas are people who have gold ropes on their necks and living"

  • @MrJtotheohnnn your ignorance is not an excuse for you stupidty and stop hating black people.

  • @mahdi0123456789 are you retarded? Read wtf I wrote and interpret it carefully. How the fuck I'm I hating on black people? Because I put niggers are people who had ropes hanging off their necks from trees? I'm not the one who termed the definition and I'm certainly not the one who did those acts. Also even black people are against and for the term NIGGA where niggas means a diff meaning on a negative word or a word with the same meaning and diff spelling.

  • @mahdi0123456789 P.S you cant compare the terms chinks and niggers. You call someone a chink in high school and you probably get slapped on the wrist. You call someone a nigger in high school and you probably get suspended or worse. Its not the term but the context because the meaning behind the word are tottally different....(learn to speak your mind, it'll help you)

  • @MrJtotheohnnn so what you are saying is the word nigger is worse then chink but still want us black people to use it against each other. and what dont you understand nigga came from southerns who coulndt say nigger.

  • @mahdi0123456789 yes the word nigger is worse than chink simply in the context of it and i dont care what black people call each other but they simply dont mind calling themselves nigga. Also you should know that the word evolved to the point where almsot everyone calls it now.....its more of a noun like "damn you see those whales, those niggas are crazy!" STOP over analyzing every single word and being over critical because some are for it and some arent.

  • @mahdi0123456789 if you arent for it than thats your decision but I for one see a different meaning in the word and obviously so do the many many MANY MANY black people who use the word in the same context in which I am trying to explain to you as

  • @MrJtotheohnnn i was trying to empower black people but you rather want us to be igorant.

    and just because and individual uses a word dosent mean we want to hear it.

    goodbye and have a good life.

  • @Kannon5123 I hope you spelled "ignorant" wrong on purpose. And no they are the same word with the same meaning kid.

  • myyyyyy niggah!!

  • After a stupid racial debate over the usage of this word it feels good to watch this video and see that some people, white people in the audience included, still get it. Everyone has to take stance or the loud and ignorant few win.

  • Kind of ironic this is a nigga poem & the cats name who posted this video is kfc lol

  • The same goes for the term Thug. It's a awful term. I still wonder while thug-life is such a praised term. Research Thuggee, or Tuggee.

  • i don't like any use of the word it is degrading and every time i hear it it takes me to a point of history that i am ashamed my race was the victim of... i especially hate it when black people use it, i think about how my grandma would fill hearing a word that they fought so hard to dissociate themselves from... this poem truly speaks the truth...

  • wow ...............!

  • NIGGERS LMAO

  • this pisses me off!! ive been saying this my whole life..im white,black people dont think twice about what i have to say,a black guys says it and people are like"wait a minute..."we,black people are the most racist motherfuckers on the planet..so im gonna say white power!! oh is that racist?just like when you say black power right! imagine instaed of BET(the tv station)there were WET(WHITE ENTERTAINMENT TV),think about thinkgs like that and ask yourselves whos really racist?

  • NIGGER

  • If every young black man woman and child could hear this

  • @nzrobertnz Why does Youtube allow people to have names like that??????????? I thought racial slurs were not tolerated...Shame on youtube. People are allowed their freedom of speech, but I mean youtube has the right to regulate things as well. Denounced. And after watching this video, you should know to drop the Nword!!!!!!!!

  • Knowledge

  • This also implies to words like 'pakis'. powerful poem. love it.

  • @mybackpocket I disagree. The word 'Paki' has historically been used not as a negative term like the term 'nigger' has, but as simply a short version of 'Pakistani'. It's only in recent years that, despite Pakistanis themselves agreeing it's not a negative word when said in a non-negative context, people who think they know better have declared the word "racist".

  • @TheRushingWind the word surfaced during the 60's when immigrants from those parts of the world came over and it was used to describe them, it was supposed to be an abbreviation of the word pakistani but very rapidly became a racist word because of how it was used and in what context. My dad who came over at that time suffered abuse as did other with that word. so no it IS a racist word.

  • @TheRushingWind just like the word 'nigger' was used to describe a black person/slave, the word paki is now used and even then when it first surfaced to describe someone from south asia.

  • @mybackpocket Do you have any reference for the word 'Paki' being a predominantly negative word historically? The word 'nigger' was not just used to describe a black person - it was used to oppress, to suggest a white person was better than a so-called "nigger", to subjugate. The word 'Paki' was just used as a short version of Pakistani - with a minority of people ignorantly using it to refer to even people with brown skin who were not from Pakistan.

  • Do you have any reference for the word 'Paki' being a predominantly negative word historically? The word 'nigger' was not just used to describe a black person - it was used to oppress, to suggest a white person was better than a so-called "nigger", to subjugate. The word 'Paki' was just used as a short version of Pakistani - with a minority of people ignorantly using it to refer to even people with brown skin who were not from Pakistan.

  • @TheRushingWind en. wikipedia. org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs - look under P. When Pakistanis began moving to the UK, the British people called them pakis in an insulting way which was used as a derogatory name to "sum up" a type of person. No need for 'refrences' i know living people who suffered racial abuse and that word was used. Are you trying to justify the use of the word?

  • @mybackpocket I shall rephrase: do you have a RELIABLE source? And there is no need to try to justify a word that doesn't need to be justified.

  • @TheRushingWind you want a reliable source? to tell you if the word 'paki' is right or wrong? if it's a negative word or not? is this Nick Griffin im speaking with?! o.O you want a reliable source? go ask the pakistani immigrants that came over to the UK in the 60's or 70's about the word and they'll tell you the 'history' of the word. i honestly can't believe some people...

  • @mybackpocket yeah it's hard to believe people like you who make claims then when asked for a reliable source can't back it up so make a silly attempt to turn the tables and idiotically suggest I'm a racist. I've told you my own experience, that it was not a racist term. Even Pakistanis have defended it. Yet you make all these claims about how it was and is racist, yet can't back up a single thing you say with anything other than a random page that anyone can edit. Why don't YOU ask those Pakis?

  • @TheRushingWind again i say this to you, you DO NOT NEED A WEBSITE telling you that the word 'paki' is racist! you go out there and say it to a pakistani and more than likely you will get a smack in the mouth, the pakistanis who use it are the same as the black people who go around calling each other 'niggers' o.O. the reliable source you want are the people who suffered this abuse in the 60s and 70s. wake up.

  • This LYRICAL MASTERPIECE makes me wanna cry cause I was once that boy gettin' outta class near 3PM cursin' my ancestors UNINTENTIONALLY by usinf this UGLY OOGLY EPITAPH. AND I ORIGINALLY included an exclamation point at the end of the first sentence but I had to edit it, b-cause That word didn't make me ANGRY AS I NOW AM over the fact I used it so MUCH!!! I gotta clean up my lyrics and act PERIOD!!

  • YEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!! OMG1 I love it!!!

  • that's my nigger.

  • I don't agree.  I've heard this argument for years. Would almost agree too if I hadn't read the book, "Nigger" by Dick Gregory some 25 years ago. Now if u were to make the same argument regarding the word, "b!tch" and how women call themselves that, I'd agree, but b/c of the "N" word history, I think u really do empower the word when u try 2 make this argument.

  • im white but i live in a mostly black community and this sent chills down my spine

  • sore monkeys

  • @longbeachk1d IGNORANCE IS BLISS... and YOU just proved the point! SMH

  • @NavyWoman07 relax shawndiqua sensitive lil ape

  • FUCK NEEDLE DICK WHITE HONKIES :)

  • @HamptonAveRepresenta rascism has no color, your no different

  • you know if its a good poem when people are so transfixed like that.

  • Sad as shit how we as a people black people use that word.

    Obama And All Of Need 2Change. No More

  • the WORD nigga is the least of our problems. lets focus on character before we focus on this word that has no effect on us anymore. i know loving and kind and intelligent ppl that use this word....its not about the word anymore, its simply about character

  • nigger is a cute word leave it alone.

  • Good take on a useless and outdated word.

  • WOW 1649-1657 ONLY 8 YEARS FOR THE IRISH,, NO KIDDING WELL HERE IN LOS ANGELES THE REDHEADS IRISH GIRLS GIVE GOOD %$^^&##@( WHEN YOU PUMP GOOD RUM IN THEM

  • 1649-1657 irish slave trade, irish men and woman brought to america and sold into slavery along with african slavesand other races as well. it is 2011, if people back in the slavery days saw how we live now they would flip the fuck out, racism is irrelevant in this day n age. we need to be united as human beings, as a country, we had nothing to do with slavery!!! we were born on this land and we learn from our mistakes, its the human way. we need to come together and push forward not get stuck.

  • @paydn202 African chattel slavery 400 years, Irish slave trade 8 years HUGE DIFFERENCE. No you personally didn't have anything to do with slavery but if you are white then u are sitting in "white privilege" because of it. Racism is like the elephant in the room everybody sees it but nobody wants to address the issue and until it happens the elephant/racism is here to stay

  • @brionnakennedy what ive always believed is, it all boils down to individual personalities. you have to look at it from the perspective of basic instinct and not what people have been taught. like if you get hit in the face, you will want to hit them back no matter what color they are ya know...anything extra is coming from that person and that person alone, not their entire race. and white privilege is a joke, ive worked hard for everything in my life and im lucky to still be alive.

  • @paydn202 White privilege is a joke????? Really you guys had 400 year head start on African Americans i think thats pretty privileged if u ask me (Not to mention Jim crow)....Although you've worked hard for everything you've gotten its much easier to live in this country and get ahead if you are white. I don't blame the whole white race but again you are sitting in "white privilege" because of things your ancestors did

  • @brionnakennedy i didnt get 400 years of nothing, i was born 20 years ago, i live in a shit city where no one expects to grow up to be anything important .it doesnt matter if youre black or white, everyone is equal and if you have money youre more important, thats how it goes. if you have a mentality like yours then of course it will always seem like white people are more privileged. white people are the minority now. whose stopping you from being what you want to be? anyone can go to college

  • @paydn202 white people are not the minority. They're smaller in number, but a minority,by definition is at a disadvantage. And you may not have personally been handed the benefits of the last 400 years, but certainly Caucasians as a group have a better quality of living just for the fact that they are white. Yes, money does matter, but prejudice runs deep and continues to affect thoughts and actions. Did you know that race generally determines health? No disrespect, just pointing the facts.

  • @jojolemoncrsh MINORITY - a group differing, especially in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population (thats from the dictionary, okay) the majority, meaning major..as in higher number than the rest. I am white, I am a minority, so are blacks. the only thing that bothers me is people saying im priveledged because im white, which i am not, believe me i would know if i had opportunities my friends didn't. i live in a shit neighborhood in a shit house with no money.