The Meaning Of Nigga

In modern American disclosure, there has been a lot of discussion about what race connotes and denotes. One of things about race that can be contradicting is the word “Nigger” or “Nigga.” Back in the slavery days, African Americans were described as such. That one word was used to belittle black lives to be worthless and treated unfairly. As a black woman today, I know that one word alone is like the Helen of Troy, which was “the face that launch’d a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium.” This word and what it stands for is an abomination to not only the United State of America, but to the entire universe. Words like that are created to make someone feel worthless, useless, and undesirable. I cannot fathom seeing how people …show more content…
Fields, and he said that “it ain’t what people call you, it is what you answer to.” I think that what our generation learned from the past. We learned that that word does not define us. It not like a tattoo tattooed on our skin forever. I think that influenced our generation to change the word and its meaning by changing the world “nigger” to “nigga.” Tupac Shakur describes the two words as “Nigger” being a black man with a slave chain around his neck, and “nigga” as a black man with a gold chain on his neck. I do not necessarily agree with the definition of “nigga” being a man with a chain, but I do agree with Tupac with his first definition of the word “nigger.” I do in fact believe that the word “nigga” means a black friend that you can count on to hold you down and be there for you forever. I feel that one word was made to seem like a chain that never could be broken, but I feel with the new definition and the new outlook of the word provides hope that you can be more than what you are defined as. It spreads hope that the sun will rise, and that little things that tore you down can be initially the same things that build you up to be who you were born to be without …show more content…
most infamous speech, and he was one of the most influential black men in history. His dream was the match that made people believe in the cause for equality, and even today it seems like it has not been made possible. It is sad to think that Dr. Martin Luther would be upset at how they Hutu and Tutsi people fought to prove dominance over another. King was known for bringing black people together to strengthen the community. Many may think that the Hutu lets the black race down, but it is wrong to pass judgement on others. The truth is the Hutu didn’t hurt anyone but themselves, and actually harming Tutsi people as well. They hurt themselves by not combining each’s strengthens of the Tutsi with their strength to make a better world for each to live in happily. Maybe they believe that to succeed means that others must fail, but was it not Dr. King that proved that working together could make a bigger splash in the ocean as opposed to a little