Is it ok for Africans, Black Europeans, or Afro Latinos to say the n-word?

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

ONly RAPPERS ARE ALLowed TO SAY IT.

 

[SNG]

It shouldn’t be said at all but this divisive shyt amongst black folks is fukkin retarded.

 

[Ohene]

lol Americans are funny

 

[Geordi]

Looks like the word belongs to the Africans, yall got to check in with them to use the word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ N1gger

The earliest known published use of the term dates from 1574, in a work alluding to "the Nigers of Aethiop(Ethiopia), bearing witnes

In the colonial America of 1619, John Rolfe used negars in describing the African slaves shipped to the Virginia colony

 

[RadaMillz]

if you are grown and use it on daily bases, you need to expand your vocabulary

 

[EndDomination]

I feel some discomfort with it, but this feels like a "genie out of the bottle issue." It should have been nipped in the bud with the popularity of blacksploitation films and early hip-hop.

Now that we're here, there is no going back.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

For context, for those who want to argue with me about this, as an ADOS I'm going to do my best to not say other cultures' bad words either: c00lie, d0ugla, k4fir, etc. I don't know why y'all insist on defying us when we tell y'all certain words aren't for y'all to say.

You've lived in Brooklyn for decades and never heard a black person regardless of ethnic background use the word "coolie?"

When I was in college black American kids said sak pase, bredren, mida cono, and other cultural shyt all the time and no one was bothered with all this ridiculous "tHiS bElOnzgs 2 Us" politics. And American, Caribbean, and African brehs got together and said niccuh all day. What Brooklyn did you live in?

Some of yall live in a sad lonely world where this is the shyt you wanna worry about just to feel important, significant, and political. Black people aren't as needlessly tribal as you so badly wanna believe, and we shouldn't be. We exchange words, terms, phrases, and culture all the time. Grow up.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

If you’re not black and if your Ancestors were not enslaved in the Americas then you can’t say it. The word is from a result of chattel slavery in the Americas. For that reason I give Afro Latinos and Black non c00n Caribbeans a pass but hell no an African should not say it. It’s not their history and they should be checked for saying it.

An African breh who grew up in NYC is gonna say it, and sound no different from his peers. Just like plenty of black Americans will tell a jamaican breh "wah gwon." And ain't no one gonna check nothing. This is weird ass politics.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

Niger, Nigeria, Negus, breh it's a word that has its roots in Africa perverted by backwards southern racists. Ngu, means man or male. that word and it's roots belongs to blacks worldwide. i wish our historians would propagate the origins more so we'd feel better about it. it's like us calling them cacs (caucasian) shyt is a tongue in cheek version of Ngu, Nga, etc.

 

[85 East]

I think you have to understand first and foremost that the black experience, especially for young men, is very similar right across the board. We are viewed and treated the same in our individual societies, from the bottom of south America to the top of Canada. The word carries the same weight when used against us, whether in the US or not... Honestly when it comes to the black experience we are all cousins in a way.

 

[TEH]

An African breh who grew up in NYC is gonna say it, and sound no different from his peers. Just like plenty of black Americans will tell a jamaican breh "wah gwon." And ain't no one gonna check nothing. This is weird ass politics.

You mad?

 

[King Harlem]

We can't be as influential as we are as Black Americans and use that word as much as we do in everyday life, music, film, etc and not expect other people to pick up its usage. It's not realistic.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

You mad?

Yeah, I am. This diaspora war politics is getting tired, old, and just a waste of our time and energy.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

stupid logic, the language itself dont even belong to you

when gate keeping goes stupid

I dont use the word, but the logic is horrible. I'll use it if I want, my currency is just as black(even moreso than yours) FOH

..with all due respect of course.

If your non fba................ its actually not

 

[im_sleep]

Loser activities. I promise, nobody gives a fukk in real life.