The color of my skin is actually brown when based off of actual colors/crayons but when described as to my nationality it is black or negro or noir or niger depending on what language you speak. Here in America home of "take it & make it yours" approach, we have "stolen" the French, Spanish/Portuguese, & Latin words but altered them to make it our own. & how is that niger is pronounced ˈnī-jər (http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggnige01=Niger) & negro is (http://www.forvo.com/word/negro/) yet we now have the o’ so popular pronunciation (http://www.answers.com/topic/nigger). Being that the originators of the word/term/phrase/ whatever were not hmm I guess African-Americans (AAs) would be the best choice, how is it AAs feel that they are the only ones able to say/use it? *ok so I guess that "take it & make it yours" thing is not limited to Americans (Kanye shrug)* But AAs dropped the er in Nigg & added an a & now many blacks claim it's a term of endearment (akin to brother, homie, etc), but in no way can it be as its root meaning of ignorance. (read more @ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigga) Any who they have also adopted “ghetto” as their own when in fact it derives from Italy (hmm that’s not in Africa), from the ghèto island where Jews were forced to live, literally but AAs think this is a special thing for just them. Another AAs only thing is referring to the “ghetto” in which they live as the ‘hood. If you do not live in this particular area (or have family who reside there) I guess you need a pass but not just any pass a ‘HOOD PASS! My apologies if you are not an AA you need this ‘hood pass to visit/even speak in the certain vernacular exclusive to AAs This concept & mindset is installed in & out of the ‘hood so everyone now knows it. However, if, say an AA goes to Manhattan, NY do they need an elite pass to hang with the elite there? I doubt it. Dangit do I need an elite pass to write the way I do in this blog because it is not laced with words straight out of the urban dictionary?
Getting away from the topic soooo EVERY race/color/nationality who are not from the ‘ghetto” outside of AAs (of course) need a ‘hood pass to say nigger, which actually is not owned by AAs & they can not say nigga either because what? O’ I guess because they could never be our brother or homie (another exclusive AA word)… in my opinion it’s all stupid & to show how much I give you this…. Enjoy
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