Girls Rant About Black People...

I came across this video on www.worldstarhiphop.com that had two girls talking about black people. I feel it's very sad that there are people in the world that think of black people this way. This should be taken as a wake up call for African Americans to step it up. Yes I am mixed but I take pride in my African American culture and it upsets me that some of the things these girls were saying were true. Now i will agree that a lot of it was blown way out of proportion and she probably experienced some pretty bad stuff to make her feel this way about blacks. Many of the things she mentioned were very stereotypical and it's sad that we feed this stereotype in many ways. She mentioned "It's not all black people it's the niggers"...WOW. I was really stuck on this part of the video. So I grabbed the dictionary and looked up the word "nigger" and it said "USAG: The word nigger was used as an adjective denoting a black person as early as the 17th century and has long had strong offensive connotations. Today it remains one of the most racially offensive words in the language. Also referred to as 'the n-word,' nigger is sometimes used by black people in reference to other black people in a jocular or disparaging manner, or some variant in between (in somewhat the same way that queer has been adopted by some gay and lesbian people as a term of self-reference, acceptable only when used by those within the community)."

This is where we hurt ourselves...referring to each other as "nigger" or "nigga". Not only did I read that definition but i also read another definition defining the word "nigger" as ignorant. We go around calling each other "nigga" not knowing that we are calling each other ignorant and this is exactly the way many people look at us. I'm not saying that all African Americans are ignorant, I'm saying that we need to get ourselves together and recognized this pandemic. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and many many more did not fight for our freedom for us to go around calling each other ignorant. Years ago we banned together fighting for a better future and it's still a fight today. I think now days we are so spoiled because of the freedom we have that we forget to recognize that there is still a fight. Maybe not for freedom but more so for recognition and respect.

I won't be a hypocrite and say I've never used the "n" word, but watching that video has really made me disgusted with that word. If thats the way anyone views black people, I dont want to be apart of that window.

Black people....

LET'S GET IT TOGETHER!...

I'm just sayin...