Just for the record, I am black, and I don't believe we (black ppl) have truly reclaimed that word. The reason being is that we still get offended by it if other ppl use it. How can we still be offended by the word if we reclaimed it? But I don't like being called that from any body, I personally despise the word and hate how older black men and women call our young black boys n*gga. I think it's degrading and dehumanizing like it was meant to be when the word was coined up. It already exposes them to a certain type of mindset (which is negative and ghetto imo) at such a impressionable young age. But that's my opinion on the subject. |