Kennita Jo.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLZEBUB!

This is all I've had on Twitter.

It's all for you tbh.

I think this one's on my Twatter, so. CoverGerl realness.

Okay at you giving Damita Jo era glow.

"Who the hell is Anna Mae anyway?" "I don't know, I think she wrote a book."

lmfaooo.

^^ia. The chorus sounds so off to me.

True . Although it's becoming more common I think.

It's strange, I've actually never been with a guy who is circumcised and I live in Virginia. I don't mind it at all though.

I’m not repeating myself because every thing I would say to that has been said and if you’re too ignorant to even consider it then that’s on you. You can paint me a racist all you’d like for disagreeing with your empty excuses, I couldn't care less. As a white man I have received no privilege in my life unattainable to anyone else. I’ve actually had to work for everything I have -- money, belongings, respect, college education – with zero help from the government or society for my pasty complexion or even help from my parents because of theirs. I said I wouldn’t go into what I’ve experienced because it is 0.00% of your business and it’s not a pissing contest but I can promise that you’ve never experienced some of the shit I have, for my race, my sexuality, my age, and the likes. But I know I’m not the only so I don’t make excuses and I push through and wind up smarter and wiser than the ignorant, pity-seeking asswipes like you who continue to make a bad name for the "creed” with which you identify and indirectly separate yourself. You can take your excuses and notions of total white privilege and shove them up your hairy black asshole babe. It’s 2014, no one is singularly oppressed. A brain is a brain and if statistically speaking the lot of the current black generation chooses not to use its brain, rather than continue to feed into its own stereotypes by indulging in crime and drugs and poverty and whatnot, that’s not the white man’s cross to bear. Stop making excuses, let go of a past that is not entitled to you and get ahead. That is my point. Nose to the grindstone.

Nor do you. Already explained. Move along.

Not even close

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Says the entitled white dude... :sigh: :sigh:

And it's not just about slavery..

To what are you not entitled to as a black man in 2014?

And sorry, Pops. I forgot you grew up in the fifties/sixties.

i.word.com/idictionary/obtuse, n*gga.

We need not go into anything I've been through. As I said, you and your spoiled sorry ass life don't bear the weight of your ancestors because not a one of us would know their struggle if it hit us like a two-ton whip on a cottonfield. On that account you shouldn't be saying it at all. You're spitting on their graves by disrespecting the delicate ecology of the word and continuing to isolate yourselves when the majority embraces the likes of you. It's ignorant asses like you, so warped by your social climates, who continue to keep the black man down beyond any other factor. Stop seeking compassion and entitlement for something you haven't endured. It's ridiculously pretentious.

All or nothing.

I don't believe that at all..

That's not my problem toots.

There is no connection Reyna. He's pulling it out of his ass because he's unable to maintain an intellectual argument, much like the others in this thread. But that's been the case with them for as long as I can remember and I've been a member for eight years.

Because he would never say it to a group of blacks he doesn't know..

I actually stated more than once that I do. If anyone says it to me I am not fearful to say it back. Read or get read.

Not trying put your intelligence on a pedestal and subsequently misusing the word "obtuse". The jokes just write themselves.

7:49 - 8:04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrwd8X3jeA

Not you trying to do the same and failing to correct me because I actually know what it means.

You're still not giving me a valid reason why a white person would want to use it..

Black people use it towards me all the time as an endearment, strangers and friends. I reciprocate. That's the way love goes.

And that schlock about us only wanting to use it because we were told not to is backwards ass bullshit. What you, Game, and Austin are saying is a result of social conditioning from your upbringing and social circles. Close-mindedness. Textbook psychology.

lol I'm smarter than you two will ever be, but I'm sorry you're so obtuse. I'd seek pity too.

I swear I thought you had some Latin in you somewhere. Not referring to last night.

This is why I don't claim to be black. It's too much to handle.

What are you mixed with Hotsy?

I think too much is being said for the N-word being used as a term of endearment. To say black people or hip-hop took the word and flipped its meaning is not a blanket truth. DMX definitely wasn't being brotherly on 'One More Road To Cross' where he talks about shooting a n*gga in the head. Nicki Minaj certainly isn't being tender on 'Lookin' Ass N*gga'. They and countless other black artists use "n*gga" for the sole purpose of referring to another black person, whether affectionately or heatedly, and the endearment excuse is a fail for that reason.

And I detest the notion that gay people have "adopted" the F-word or flipped it in any way. To liken its acceptance in gay culture is ridiculous. You would never see Neil Patrick Harris talking about Elton & David's Oscars fundraiser like, "Those f*ggots know how to throw a party!"

Basically. Black people separate themselves with their false entitlement to the word and its ancestry and their culture and then play the race card when society separates them. Backwards and that's my point. The word should not be said at all because it's ignorant and an enormous slight to its ancestry but if it's going to become an endearment then it has to become one for all, or it still retains its power by still being directed only towards black people.

And I'll take Webster's or even the mathematical definition of "equal" over your definition, Austin. Thanks though.

Equality is equality and "creeds" don't get exceptions. And you don't share that history, your ancestors did. What do you or any young person in America know about oppression except the second-hand knowledge you picked up in grade school? Nothing. So the right to say it belongs to all or none where "equality" is concerned, especially considering that it is the newer generations who have turned the word into an endearment.

"When white people complain about experiencing reverse racism, what they’re really complaining about is losing out on or being denied their already existing privileges. And while it may feel bad to realize your privilege is crumbling and the things you’ve taken for granted can be taken away from you, it is unfair, untrue, and disingenuous to call that experience reverse racism"

That quote actually proves reverse racism. And again, if you want equality then you can't hold onto those false senses of entitlement to prejudices. Equal is equal boo.

I understand that racism is racism when push comes to shove but educate yourselves: www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?rd=1&word=Reverse+racism

But according to Bill, it's "ridiculous" to think that any other/most groups have faced some form of prejudice.

Yes.

As a man my age I can assure with almost absolute certainty that you have as much experience as I and other like individuals have, skin color barred, and I don't even know you. The momentary slights and prejudices of passers-by are no examples of oppression; I firmly believe that everyone has endured some form of that and just because you happen to be black does not make you an exception. That's called equality. You could never have true empathy for what your ancestors endured and for the likes of you to walk around with that baggage unwilling to embrace equality is an enormous backhand to their struggle. Erykah told you that you were gon' hurt your back dragging all them bags like that. Heed.

But never mind. You obviously don't want to understand.

have you ever had someone look at you in a funny way just because of your skin color or at your job they didn't come to you for help they chose to go to the other person simply cause or you skin color? What about not helping you cause of your skin color or making you wait longer? I'm not trying to make a point I just wanna know have you ever experienced indirect racism or just straight up racism because of your skin color?

The irony of this is that I actually grew up in schools and neighborhoods predominately populated with black people and did, in fact, experience reverse racism on a daily basis, and things far beyond my skin color. But that still isn't quite the same and has little to do with either side. My stance is that equality means no exceptions.

Can some enlightened individual inform me how it's still reasonable to use a word once meant as negative but somehow turned positive? I see how the change happened, but I want to know why it's reasonable to still allow it to be used at all. If it's because the meaning has changed, then what is the point of anyone using it if they're expressing in the new endearing way and not the old way? Is it memories of the past? If so, why is it on the new generation to still bear the weight of what an older generation did just because they look like them? I don't know any generation that wants to be responsible for the negativity of its predecessors. Everyone knows the history of the word, and so if it's become a positive over the years, again why the hostility? Either we do away with this "new positive meaning" thing and keep the word as a negative to be used by no one or we open the doors to use it if meant endearingly. Anything else is a double standard.

Added note: Don't give me any "You just don't understand" bullshit. I'm a mixed race woman who's had the word been used towards me in BOTH ways. I've dealt with racism before, and I can still say none of this logic makes sense.

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