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Nigguh Please
By Marvin X
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African American leaders
including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep.
Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) [are] calling
for rap stars, hip-hop artists and everyone
else to stop using the offensive word. They
endorsed an NAACP campaign to "just say 'no'
to the N-word." "Activists
urge boycott of the 'N-word':Black leaders
mount campaign over Michael Richards'
comments. But others say banning the word
goes too far."By Valerie Reitman, Times
Staff Writer November 28, 2006
http://www.latimes.com |
The black culture police are at it
again, lead running dog is Rev. Jesse Jackson, perhaps
the most hypocritical culture policeman on the scene—especially
after leading president Clinton in prayer over Monica
while himself engaged in extramarital shenanigans. I
can't take Jesse Jackson with his twisted mouth (from
lying) pontificating on moral issues while he is the
most immoral of men, even pimping the blood of MLK, Jr.
The culture police continue to focus
on the N word as in Nigguh or Nigger, depending on
whether one is into Ebonics or Euronics. Now Nigguh/Nigger
has become a billion dollar word, thanks to rappers. It
is used around the world on the rap scene and used by
the multicultural hip hop generation. Yes, a white boy,
Asian, Latino or others can be called nigguh. Language
is fluid and dynamic, not static, thus, definitions of
words, connotations and denotations change with time.
The conservative cultural police are
stuck in a time warp, suffer cultural lag and other
psycho pathologies. They want to deal with surface
structure rather than deep structure issues. They abhor
the term “motherfucker” while they fuck their mothers
and daughters, even sons. They abhor the term nigguh
because they are the real nigguhs, faking like they
black. As James Brown says in one of his songs, "Talkin
Black but living negro."
As a writer, I am opposed to
censorship in any way, for any reason. Nigguh is one of
the most powerful words in the American language,
certainly in the language of North American Africans,
and it's silly to think we are going to stop using the N
word--I am not, so Nigguh please tell the culture police
to kiss my black nigguh ass.
If there were people in my audience
talking or heckling me, I would/will tell them to get
their black nigguh asses out my concert, or come up to
the mike and take over, since it is obviously their show
and they have something important to say to the
audience.
It is time for political correctness
to enter the dustbin of history. Call a spade a spade
and stop tweeking. How in the hell can we get mad at the
white boy when we use nigguh every day of our lives? And
when we ain't using nigguh, for sure we are acting like
nigguhs, talkin loud, saying nothing--or more precisely
doing nothing. Nigguh, please!
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Marvin X just released his
book of essays on consciousness,
Beyond
Religion, Toward Spirituality. Available
from Black Bird Press, 11132 Nelson Bar Road, Cherokee
CA 95965. 280 pages, $19.95.
posted 29 November 2006 * * * * *
posted 31 July 2008 |
