http://variety.com/2018/music/opinion/kendrick-lamar-rappers-should-stop-using-n-word-1202818977/
@angryblackman thoughts?
I donāt agree with this at all, and Iām getting tired of the wholeĀ āis it fair to not let white fans say niggaā argument. Itās very easy to not say it, sing it or let it leave your lips if youāre white (and also if youāre not black in general). You shouldnāt want to say it if youāre white.
And this argument always brings the whole fucking,Ā āwell, if you donāt want white people to say it, then donāt use itā argument and itās likeā¦why do white people want to say it in the first place? You have a whole dictionary at your disposal, this is the one word you shouldnāt say, yet here you are saying it.
And say we stop saying nigga altogether. What happens then? White people are probably going to move onto the next damn slur thatās been reclaimed by an oppressed group, and keep going until all of them have ceased used among oppressed groups that have reclaimed them. Theyāre about to collect racial slurs like the infinity stones and shit.
Rappers shouldnāt be expected to drop the n-word because white fans canāt act right when it comes to not saying it. Plus, before the white girl got up on stage and was letting the n-word fly, there were actually other people who went up and rapped Kendrickās songs ā they all avoided saying the n-word.
Do you feel the same idea of abolishing the n-word apply to books? Specifically books as Mark Twain literature? I feel banning words can also have a negative impact in teaching ālook how terrible society was here.ā Mistakes are bad when made, but often infinitely worse if you do not learn and grow from them to never repeat yourself. I recall some years ago about questioning the edit of those books and I donāt remember what came of it.
