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KANG LIFE
On point post.I got nothing new that I haven't said a dozen times on this topic.
But I'll throw this scenario into the discussion.
If we talking equal opportunity and freedom of expression, if black people who don't live around Hispanic Caribbean people, Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese people, for instance, started calling themselves spics, wetbacks, chinks, and gooks as a term equivalent to "homie".......and started putting it in rap music songs and videos...............what would be the reaction?
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Or is the realistic issue with my scenario that, none of those groups call themselves those slanderous terms, and none of those groups make Billboard Top 25 hits, that people around the world hear, using those terms? Implying there is no cultural/social organic way for a random black kid in a overwhelmingly black area making rap music to feel the need to call themselves, friends, enemies, or random fan a spic, wetback, chink, or gook?
We might have checkmated ourselves, with white supremacy being the origin of course, but the inflationary use of the term into popular music has released it into the wild...I have no answer or a solution honestly, beyond a moratorium on the word by all rap artists until like 2050. The problem is rap music is a reflection of the streets to a great extent, which would require the streets to stop using the term and stop making music with the term. But even if we somehow got all black folks, street elements and regular every day folks to commit to stop using the term, we tell all races of youth to go discover the old school hip hop and sharpen their hip hop history. So when they start doing a hip hop archaeological dig on the amazing music of the 80s, but definitely the 90s............what word is going to stand out more than any other......... .. .. ... .. ...![]()
The older I get the more I’m realizing how layered the whole N word conversation is.
It’s like we’ve aloud our culture to be PACKAGED and SOLD to the world but then get made when the receipts and results come back.
I’m not comfortable with non-blacks using the word, but I also see the bigger picture of why they think they can use it.
Our community doesn’t want to have the full conversation though
