The word nigga

             "My niggas. Some niggas that you don't wanna try.
             My niggas. Some niggas that's ready to do or die.
             My niggas. Who ain't living a lie.
             By DMX
             Does this artist use the word nigger in the same way that a slave master or a racist has? The answer to this question is a simple one, no. Today's urban society has changed not only the definition, but also the spelling of this word. Which was once used to belittle those of African-American decent. Now, the definition as proved through today's urban youth holds many denotations- positive and negative. Has the definition really changed? Or is today's urban society just being ignorant and socially blinded by the hardships of our ancestors, when they continue to use a word that held such great racial tension when used in the 1800's. Some would state that if you can use your middle finger to point and nothing is meant by it. Why, because it is not used in a bad way. So why not say nigga if it not used in a bad way. Any word can be used as a bad word, like it. The word it is not a bad word. Use it in the wrong way it can be bad. For instance if someone said "This IT right here !
             is dumb as hell!". In fact, urban youth are so socially powerful that they can take a word and totally flip it and use it and make it mean something else.
             Some would clam the youth in general don't really know what the word nigger even though spelled nigga means. It means ignorant or dumb. Even though we did not live the through it, why would you what to remember it by saying nigga.
             When used by a white person to describe a black or African American person, this can seem like the most hateful, hurtful, offensive term in the language today. This word in American speech dates back to the late 1600's, although the modern spelling doesn't appear until three thousand years later. The obsolete spelling nigge...

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