A Brief History of “Nigga”

Today we are gonna talk about the one thing most folks don’t want to,
the Word Nigga – here’s a clip from Wikipedia :

Nigga is a term used in African American Vernacular English that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger (which is derived ultimately from the Latin word niger meaning the color black)

We will use this definition to help us in our illustration to you of what it really is.

Have you ever wondered why people do absolutely stupid things ?
look at this video of this rapper, who has lost his mind,,
I’m a Swaggarian – Yeah Niggah.. Whateva..

Rapper TRU LIFE eating a bowl of Fruity Pebbles cereal with Rose’ Wine..
and then he wipes his mouth with Benjamins.  how stupid, and nasty.
It’s about as purposeful as this white woman getting this tattoo.. Why Honey ?

NEW YORK (AFP) — A New York man pleaded guilty Monday to a series of racist assaults allegedly meant to protest the election of President Barack Obama that left one victim in a coma, the US Department of Justice said.

Ralph Nicoletti, 18, was the last of four defendants to plead guilty in federal court to three hate crime assaults on the night of Obama’s election as the first African-American president of the United States. The other co-defendants are Bryan Garaventa, 18, Michael Contreras, 18, and Brian Carranza, 21.

If convicted, they each face sentences of up to 10 years in prison. As part of his plea, Nicoletti agreed to a 12-year sentence subject to the court’s approval.

At the plea proceeding, Nicoletti admitted that he and his co-defendants “decided to assault African-Americans in Staten Island (New York) after President Obama was declared the winner of the election on November 4.

“The defendants targeted African-Americans believing they had voted for President Obama,” the Justice Department said.

Nicoletti drove the group to a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Staten Island, where Nicoletti hit an African-American teenager with a metal pipe and Garaventa struck him with a police baton.

In a separate location on the island, the group assaulted an African-American man, whom Garaventa tripped and pushed to the ground.

In the third assault, Nicoletti ran his car over an individual the group mistakenly identified as an African-American. US media said the victim was Ronald Forte, a white man. Forte sustained serious injuries and was in a coma for several weeks.

US Attorney Benton Campbell called the attacks “shocking and deplorable.”

“On a night of historic significance, these four angry men assaulted their victims in an attempt to punish them for exercising a fundamental right of all Americans — the right to vote. Those who commit such crimes will be swiftly apprehended, prosecuted and punished,” he added.

“In attempting to intimidate voters, the defendants also violated the victims’ civil rights in a way that was an attack on the democratic process,” said Joseph Demarest, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York Field Office.

Everytime we run across an episode of this show we have to post it.
this is the Japanese Family who says the word Nigga incessantly.

it’s so racist, we just have to post it to make sure folks understand that
THIS Ain’t Cool My Niggah.

What’s With the extreme rise in weapons sales in the us suddenly ?

License, track all gun sales for a safer America

The Rae Way – Published: April 29, 2009

(this is a clipping from the article – to read the entire article, click the title)

Gun rights expert David Kopel suggested Barack Obama would seek new gun laws and become the most anti-gun president in U.S. history. As reported in The Outdoor Wire, a sports on-line publication, manufacturers are months behind on orders for semi-automatic pistols, AR and AK rifles, and anything with high-capacity magazines and that “buyers we’ve surveyed across the country seem to have a single explanation for their rush to purchase firearms

The hint of a revival of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004, caused the average price of AK-47s to double from $350 last September to more than $700.

Kristen Rand, legislative director of the “Violence Policy Center” stated, “The 1994 law in theory banned AK-47s, MAC-10s, UZIs, AR-15s and other assault weapons. Yet the gun industry easily found ways around the law and most of these weapons are now sold in post-ban models virtually identical to the guns Congress sought to ban in 1994.”

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently gave a gun lobbyist’s simplistic view that the answer to gun ownership is “enforcing the laws we have now.”

Private, unlicensed gun sales are currently exempt from federal background checks and sales retention requirements, such as purchases at gun shows, some of which are (conveniently?) attributed to robberies of homes, cars or dealer stores.

Surprisingly, only seven states and the District of Columbia require gun owners to report their guns lost or stolen — another reason for the need of national standards.

By some counts, of an estimated 300 million guns in the U.S., there are close to 4 million assault weapons. The number of undocumented gun owners and their unregistered guns in this country may surpass the numbers of undocumented immigrant workers. All of the above infringe upon the rights of law-abiding Americans.

Legislation that would require the licensing and tracking data of all gun sales would make living in America much safer. The wording doesn’t have to infringe upon “the right of the people to bear Arms.”

Gun rights enthusiasts cite the Second Amendment as the right to acquire whatever firearms suit their deadly passions. But what about the precursor to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” To gun-huggers, happiness is a warm gun; they place their liberties above defenseless Americans who are, at any given moment, put in harm’s way of unfriendly fire.

Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. People with guns kill people. People with semi-automatic guns kill a lot more people. Guns with multi-round magazine attachments are not defense weapons. They are assault weapons.

Nigga

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Use in language

In practice, its use and meaning are heavily dependent on context.^[1] Presently, the word nigga is used more liberally among younger members^[2] of all races and ethnicities in the United States, although its use by persons not of African descent is still widely viewed as unacceptable and hostile, even when used without intentional prejudice. In addition to African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latin Americans and European Americans^[3][4] have adopted the term as part of their vernacular.
There is conflicting popular opinion on whether there is any meaningful difference between nigga and nigger as a spoken term.^[5] Many people consider the terms to be equally pejorative, and the use of nigga both in and outside African American communities remains controversial.^[6] H. Lewis Smith, author of Bury that Sucka: A Scandalous Affair with the N-word, believes that “replacing the ‘er’ with an ‘a’ changes nothing other than the pronunciation”^[7] and the African American Registry notes, “Brother (Brotha) and Sister (Sistah or Sista) are terms of endearment. Nigger was and still is a word of disrespect.”^[8] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights group, condemns use of both nigga and nigger.^[5]

Ice Cube – The Nigga Trapp (Video)

Some African-Americans express considerable offense when referred to as a nigga by Caucasian people, but not if they are called the same by other African-Americans, or by some other minority, as a term of endearment.^[5] In this case, the term may be seen either as a symbol of brotherhood,^[9] similar to the usage of the words dude and bro, and its use outside a defined social group an unwelcome cultural appropriation. Critics have derided this as a double standard.^[3]

Def Poetry – Julian Curry – Niggers Niggas Niggaz

Cultural influence

The term “nigga, please”, first used in the 1970s by comics such as Paul Mooney as “a funny punctuation in jokes about Blacks,”^[10] is now heard routinely in comedy routines by African Americans. The growing use of the term is often attributed to its ubiquity in modern American hip hop music.^[11][12] Examples include: hip-hop group Niggaz with Attitude (N.W.A.), A Tribe Called Quest’s “Sucka Nigga”, Notorious B.I.G.’s song, “The Realest Niggaz”, The Geto Boys‘ “Real Negro Shit”, Jay-Z’s “Jigga That Nigga” and Snoop Dogg’s “For All My Niggaz and Bitches”. Ol’ Dirty Bastard uses the term 76 times in his Nigga Please album (not including repetitions in choruses).^[12] This is reflected in the term’s wide use in modern American gang culture. According to a Texas Monthly article about Houston gangs, many Hispanic street gang members call each other niggah.^[13]

However, its use has spread beyond North America. The Portuguese comedy show, Gato Fedorento, uses the word nigga in an audio sketch, where the four individuals say they are niggas (“I’m nigga, nigga; are you nigga, nigga?”), and end up admitting that they do not know what nigga means, although “people say it’s amazing”. Da Weasel later sang a song named “Nigga” in Gato Fedorento’s last episode of season 5.
Chris Rock had a routine Niggas vs. Black People that distinguished a nigga, which he defined as a “low-expectation-having motherfucker“, from a “black person”. In contrast, Tupac Shakur in an interview in the documentary Tupac: Resurrection distinguished between nigger and nigga: “Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing; niggas is the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.”

The Chris Rock Show – “Nigga Please Cereal”

Use in trademarks or brand names

The Lanham Act does not permit registration of trademarks containing terms that may disparage persons or bring them into disrepute.^[14] Registration by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) of terms that are historically considered disparaging to groups of people has been allowed in some circumstances. Self-disparaging trademarks have been allowed in some cases where the applicant has shown that the mark as-used is not considered by the relevant group to be disparaging.^[15]

In 1995, two Houston, Texas men filed a trademark application with the PTO for the words “Naturally Intelligent God Gifted Africans,” and its acronym. The application was rejected, as were numerous subsequent applications for variations of the word nigga. Most recently, comedian Damon Wayans twice attempted to trademark a brand name called Nigga, “featuring clothing, books, music and general merchandise.”^[11] The PTO refused the application, stating “the very fact that debate is ongoing regarding in-[ethnic]-group usage, shows that a substantial composite of African Americans find the term ‘nigga’ to be offensive.”^[12]

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