Question: When Did The N-Word Stop Being A Word That Black People Use "privately amongst themselves"?

[MasterThought]

2 extremely public tweets sent out to the world recently by popular black celebrities:

Its frequently said that the Nword is a word that black people use AMONGST THEMSELVES but that's clearly no longer the case..... especially since it was added heavily to the music we make that's packaged and sold to the world to consume.


From my understanding of the word, no black person should ever go on a public platform like Twitter and type that word, let alone go in a recording booth, make songs with the word and then commence to SELL THOSE SONGS TO THE WORLD.

Idk, I stay confused about that word and the rules surrounding it.

When did it stop being a word that we use privately amongst ourselves and become a word that we share with the world?

 

[Voice of Reason]

clowns

 

[Bar Razor]

When hip hop made it as much of a global cultural phenomenon as McDonald's or Coke.

 

[cheek100]

When nwa and them reached mainstream then social media propelled it

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

1974

 

[Ty Daniels]

That Word Needs to Die, I HATE That Word!
We are NOT that Word!

 

[Matt504]

It was never a word we used privately among ourselves, it wasn't a word we assigned to ourselves to begin with.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

What you feel about your favorite rapper Eminem using the n word on tape soft ass nikka?

 

[letti cook]

Anthony Edwards screamed "lil ass nikka" in a post game interview last week and no one batted an eye

that shyt BEEN od mainstream all my life.....i dont ever remember it being a private thing....rappers got hit singles with nikka in the title

multiple non black artists have said it and gotten a pass

its been a wrap

 

[Mac Ten]

When Hip Hop changed the last 2 letters and replaced it with a...

At first, it was used as a term of endearment that we used amongst ourselves.

Fat Joe was probably the first non white rapper to use that word outside of black folks.


Diamond D and folks gave him a pass to use it because he didn't let his folks disrespect Lord finesse and vice versa.

 

[ABlackMan]

I wanna know what we called each other before this word

 

[DJSmooth]

I wanna know what we called each other before this word

nikka and it's different forms. The word been around for over 1000 years.

 

[Uchiha God]

I’ve made a conscious effort to stop using it and I’m succeeding

Only pop out every now and then and mostly on thecoli, but even that has largely been replaced with “coli breh”

 

[Ty Daniels]

When Hip Hop changed the last 2 letters and replaced it with a...

At first, it was used as a term of endearment that we used amongst ourselves.

Fat Joe was probably the first non white rapper to use that word outside of black folks.


Diamond D and folks gave him a pass to use it because he didn't let his folks disrespect Lord finesse and vice versa.

Breh,

Southern Whites, with "Southern Drawl", regularly called Black Folks "Nikka" with the "A", HUNDREDS of Years before Modern Hip Hop.

The Word is DESIGNED To DISPARAGE US, regardless if some of us have chosen to "Embrace" it (Term of "Endearment").

The fact that when some of us get Mad, that word is one of the FIRST Words used, betrays the wickedness of it.

It's a VILE WICKED WORD, that is Bathed in the Blood of Black Folks!

 

[concise]

Blaxploitation era?