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What's that supposed to mean?
On the use of the n word. The likes of Richard Pryor were using that word to refer to fellow black people in his shows before rap music became popular, so I don't know why rap gets such a bad rap for it (if you'll pardon the pun). It was the whole of black culture that claimed that word back, so I don't get how after 30-odd years, it's suddenly a taboo word.
Excuse me?!? :eek2:
Yeah Chris Rock ironically uses it to refer to the very people who are likely to use it to refer to each other. He's basically trying to seperate all the negative stereotypes from the general black population, which is kinda the same thing that is behind the suggestion in this article.
Chris Rock on rap music.
Chris Rock uses the word loosely and liberally. He uses it both as a reference to the stereotype as well as to fellow black people.
I remember the shock I felt when a black friend of mine said "The problem with Brixton is that there are too many niggers". She was using it in the Chris Rock sense.
I mean people who don't understand he's taking the piss, or people who will take it further... Thugs?
Thats what I am going to say in this topic.
No! Freedom of expression, innit?
otherwise known as David Allan Coe!