N-Word, Is it too late to turn back now?

Maurice Carver, Producer/Host of cable show Black Men Screaming leads a discussion on the N-word.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• race
• hate
• blacks
• nword
• language
• rap
• music

[bmstv]

This was a discussion not a debate. People expressed their views on this issue. If no one was in support of using the n word than so be it. Why don't you post a video with you defending the use and see how many people will call your argument foolish..

[ohpleasz]

There's absolutely nothing cool about being a nigger...sorry that such ignorance is endorsed so heavily by black people. Bigger or bigga...nigger or nigga...sugar or suga...there is no way to sugar coat a synonym. If bigger and bigga hold the same meaning but a slight difference in sound, then the word nigga holds no different of a meaning than nigger. So where is the pride in being called a nigga??? Mispronunciation does not change the meaning...only the sound of the word spoken.

[endtimesculture]

That word must be destroyed. It represents the total rape of a people and the fact that we use it as a term of endearment is proof of the mass depression that has afflicted the American black community. We have turned on ourselves and are doing exactil what the MAN wants us to do.

[royalcoils100]

@playersposse I think it wld be a humilating sight,to see ANY black person sitting on tv defending the word nigger!What does that say abt that individual,surely we all kno where it came from,I wld suggest you do some research my brotha and find out abt the hideous pain an torture associated with the word.

[RedPapaG]

Is it really the case that young black people dont know what the word means? Myself, I dont use the word, unless its in a song, but, I dont use racial terms anyway! It does not offend me, but I do understand the wait of history attached to it.... But like the last speaker says, it wont be going away!

[RedPapaG]

@ballpark4 Its not only white people who are racist!

[playersposse]

this is a one sided debate. where are the panelist that support the use of the word?

if you're gonna have a debate have an impartial one. this is foolishness

[ballpark4]

cuz it is what is taught in schools, on tvs, in church, etc etc etc .

If you take an unbiased look at his story you will see it is self relevant

P.s check out the word negus to see where the orgins of the word nigger its not even bad :O)) cheers, Bp4

[kd5gua]

Why do so many african americans kill other african americans? Is it self-loathing?

[foxchase313]

hahahahaha good one! hahahahahah

[ballpark4]

They show me images of Black bodies swinging from trees and say Dont say nigga the word nigger didnt do that, some racist White man did, the word Nigga doesnt discriminate against me when Im applying for jobs, the word Nigga didnt shoot at Shawn Bell 50 times, the word Nigga didnt shoot Amadu Diallo 19 times, the word Nigga didnt kill Robert Stansberry, White people filled with prejudice, racism, and ubethejudge2b (.) blogspot (.) com/2007/09/can-i-call-you-nig­ga-now (.) html