TMZ asks "Should Black People be referred as "African Americans" or "N***a"

[Tommy Knocks]

6 hours!?!?!?!?!??! That's insane! I'm trippin right now!!!!

my nikka you can get a nice furnished apt for like $400. you dont' have to work very many hours. I know folks that are saving so much money cause they do the 40 hours a week and make as much as they would have back home, but live the chinese cost living. Its all up to you. but in Japan you work MORE hours than you do back home and live exactly like you would because the cost of living is the same, I never understood that. If I move out there it would have to be for a U.S company, no way Im trying to battle it out in a japanese company with those hours.

What is appealing is that japan is real high tech, even more high tech than america, and you get all that cool shyt plus the people are nice and you even have the same pop cultures (hiphop) as america and with japanese pop culture on top (anime) thats pretty damn appealing.

 

[ltheghost]

my nikka you can get a nice furnished apt for like $400. you dont' have to work very many hours. I know folks that are saving so much money cause they do the 40 hours a week and make as much as they would have back home, but live the chinese cost living. Its all up to you. but in Japan you work MORE hours than you do back home and live exactly like you would because the cost of living is the same, I never understood that. If I move out there it would have to be for a U.S company, no way Im trying to battle it out in a japanese company with those hours.

I got one more year left on this contract and I'm back to the States. I'm only here because they are paying for my living expenses and saying I worked in Japan for three years doesn't look bad on a resume...lol (Birdman Hands)

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I got one more year left on this contract and I'm back to the States. I'm only here because they are paying for my living expenses and saying I worked in Japan for three years doesn't look bad on a resume...lol (Birdman Hands)

they paying for your living? damn.

where you headed next? back to america? you know damn well you gonna get home and wanna go right back out.

I got 2 years then I plan on heading to south america, Im trying to decide between Colombia or Brazil. Ive been to Brazil loved it, was there for fashion week and made a lot of connections and then went back 2 more times to just chill with friends. I haven't been to Colombia yet only Venezuela (same difference tho), but Ive heard good things AND there's tons of american companies, my persian homegirl from cali just moved there. I feel at home in that region, so it'll be my final destination. I'll still vacation in other places tho, India and Russia are on my list, but I plan to settle in S.A for good.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I fukked around and went to a hip hop club last Saturday and they were playing straight west coast music from the 90s!! I had a great time! But after 1AM and everyone was drunk I was the MEGA popular black guy! I was on the stage and shyt rappin to some old ass Kurupt song! I think every Black man in his life should come to Japan and just experience what I like to call...."The Shift". Come to a country where white people are not running it. And just see how different your experience is. And the Japanese are just some polite motherfukkers. LOL I always get the "WUZ UP BRO!!!!" when we are in the clubs. I'm usually just chill I don't go out much because work is kicking my ass (STUDENT LOANS DAMN YOU) and I'm getting too old for the bullshyt.


on another note....if you really want to talk racism....The Japanese and Chinese hate is REAL! And the Chinese hack the shyt out of you in basketball. lol

I find this comment pretty funny.

Not like I know you personally, or if you have a bad rep or anything. But how comfortable would you be doing that in front of an all-white American crowd? Would you still feel like the man if white guys "always" came up to you and genuinely said "wuz up bro" over here?

It just seems like all the "cultural curiosity" you and @Tommy Knocks are in favor of in japan, would get a white person in America cursed the fukk out. Why does one individual get the benefit of the doubt and not the other? Why can one individual plead ignorance while the other one HAS to be a social scholar on race relations? It just seems like y'all are cool in japan being the image of a black person that you'd hate being in america.

I'm asking you this cause I don't see you as one of those militant coli posters.

But then you have nigerians in BJ who are real bad news, stay away, in certain places the racism is real, same with Guangzhou, there's some places where theres a lot of bad apples that have left a bad taste in the locals mouths. Like I said, the media does not explain these social complexities.

Your tone comes off as a very non chalant here.

I'm pretty sure there is more to this than just "nigerians who are real bad news." Again, it seems like you're quick to explain away social behaviors you'd consider discriminatory in the states. I don't think I'm the only person that notices this…..

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I find this comment pretty funny.

Not like I know you personally, or if you have a bad rep or anything. But how comfortable would you be doing that in front of an all-white American crowd? Would you still feel like the man if white guys "always" came up to you and genuinely said "wuz up bro" over here?

It just seems like all the "cultural curiosity" you and @Tommy Knocks are in favor of in japan, would get a white person in America cursed the fukk out. Why does one individual get the benefit of the doubt and not the other? Why can one individual plead ignorance while the other one HAS to be a social scholar on race relations? It just seems like y'all are cool in japan being the image of a black person that you'd hate being in america.

I'm asking you this cause I don't see you as one of those militant coli posters.



Your tone comes off as a very non chalant here.

I'm pretty sure there is more to this than just "nigerians who are real bad news." Again, it seems like you're quick to explain away social behaviors you'd consider discriminatory in the states. I don't think I'm the only person that notices this…..

I thought I explain this earlier, one is ignorant the other isnt. How is someone from a japan or china supposed to know "wassup my nikka" is a bad thing when clearly they are just mimicking from TV or the radio.

If some aliens came to our planet, started touching your skin to see if the brown comes off, would u be offended? why not? well it's the same reason. They just don't have the history, they have completely NO idea. It's like when you watch a movie and some immigrants come and say stupid shyt, like in Coming to America or Born in East LA (old movies not sure if youve seen them), but the immigrants always come off as completely naive. Same shyt. If a white american doesn't know nikka is a bad term to tell a black person, I dont know what rock that dude been living under, cause it's been a part of our country for 400 yrs. Make no mistake however, I correct asians when they make mistakes, I educate folks in certain etiquette that they might not know with foreigners.

I'm not sure I get your question about nigerians, other than the nigerians really do cause a lot of crime, ask a person from ghana, congo, america, russia, nigerians are just super scammers and none documented workers. so they always get harassed by the cops and asked for papers. the same way mexicans in san diego get asked for their papers but those in NY probably don't. Its not so much racial as it is national. Nigerians just get a bad rep, but african americans typically don't. Russians get a bad rep, but typically germans don't. same shyt.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I thought I explain this earlier, one is ignorant the other isnt. How is someone from a japan or china supposed to know "wassup my nikka" is a bad thing when clearly they are just mimicking from TV or the radio.

Make no mistake however, I correct asians when they make mistakes, I educate folks in certain etiquette that they might not know with foreigners.

I'm not sure I get your question about nigerians, other than the nigerians really do cause a lot of crime, ask a person from ghana, congo, america, russia, nigerians are just super scammers and none documented workers. so they always get harassed by the cops and asked for papers. the same way mexicans in san diego get asked for their papers but those in NY probably don't.

I'm Liberian, your point is moot

So how would you describe your opinion on Nigerians. Are you just a foreigner making a mistake that needs to be educated? Are you just mimicking TV or radio? Or are you simply ignorant.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I'm Liberian, your point is moot

So how would you describe your opinion on Nigerians. Are you just a foreigner making a mistake that needs to be educated? Are you just mimicking TV or radio? Or are you simply ignorant.

These aren't opinions on Nigerians, they just had some riots like 3 years ago. Are you defending this behavior I'm confused. One of my best friends and old neighbor in China is nigerian, in fact his father is a politician, and even he said nigerians were giving nigerians a bad name. yet you're trying to make it seem like I'm picking on them.

If you came to china and bowed out of respect only to be met with a bunch of would you know why? of course not, you probably have no idea that that is japanese culture, NOT chinese, and that that is seen as some what disrespectful, but you meant no harm, you just saw some asians bowing on tv and thought it was appropriate and cool. do you see now? they're just ignorant just like that.

 

[无名的]

But see you have to understand their culture a little, they are really upfront about what they think. I had a couple Chinese co-workers and they are very opinionated. Even to the point of rudeness. But they live in a country where 95% of them have never met or talked to a Black person. Now you mix that and of course you are going to find some st0rmfr0nt shyt from them on the internet. Especially the ones who are ALLOWED to get on the internet. But that is what happens when you don't get any personal exposure to people of different cultures. I mean we all think that Chinese people eat dog and all know some form of Kung Fu. I take a different view, I look at cultures as a whole as children. If a group of people have never met another group they are going to act weird. Until they get to know you. Now if you have history between each other, such as wars, you will experience a different type of treatment. Japanese and Chinese today are damn near about to go to war over two uninhabited islands. It's deep. But I don't think that the way they view us is racist. It's just uninformed and that can go both ways.

How apologetic are we going to get... there are so many examples I've given where if a white person said that, it'd clearly be racist, but if an Asian person from Asia says it, they get a pass?



You're telling me I need to understand the culture a little bit?

I've been studying China before anybody cared about China. I have my Chinese degree. I speak Chinese. I lived in China for years, including with Chinese roommates. I worked in a Chinese company. I've been paid at high level jobs to analyze China in the US. And I now work on my own importing from China.

 

[Im Kemet Rocky & I like penis]

i swear to god if i go to bubble in my race on a race census and it says nikka, im moving to Johannesburg or Asmara

 

[Man On Fire]

The only reason hip hop has embraced the term nikka is because perpetuating the nefarious image of black men is the most marketable tool in white supremecy. Suge Knight is a low class individual who became successful as a major player in this game. So why should he consider himself an African American...being a nikka made him rich and famous.

 

[Beegio]

nikkas is winning.

and you wonder why I don't live here anymore.

I'm going to Spain, or back to Japan in about a year. America just has an oppressive feel to it after living overseas.

 

[Blackking]

The thing is that it's hard to stop using when every rap artist has to put it in their song and you repeating that song 5x times a day. It gets stuck in your head and it becomes a habit. That's why you got these mexicans, asians, whites saying the word with reckless abandon. I personally don't say the word but I had to condition myself not to do it and I hate when rappers say it.

it's not that difficult to not say it, imo. You're right about what you listen to, but I don't even really listen to ignorant rap and I hardly hear it...... but still when I'm around my nikkas it might be said.... certain expressions don't sound right w/o it - we have 30 years of conditioning and 1 nikka might mean some expression.

Mexicans, asians, whites are saying it for 2 reasons:
1) because they find black culture cool and they think this is part of how they should imitate us.
2) They feel that it's no big deal and only fair..... why should they be banned from saying a word? subconsciously they view black people as less anyway - so they can't stand blacks being able to do something that's not socially acceptable for them to do.

I guess I don't hate it when rappers say it because average nikkas say it. Overall I wish they didn't say it..... I travel a lot w white dudes... and the radio comes on.. XM radio, lol...... It's just awkward... every song is about money, asses, shooting nikka with madd 'nikkas' thrown in the mix. I don't own any record companies but I do feel kinda embarrassed.

 

[Blackking]

The only reason hip hop has embraced the term nikka is because perpetuating the nefarious image of black men is the most marketable tool in white supremecy. Suge Knight is a low class individual who became successful as a major player in this game. So why should he consider himself an African American...being a nikka made him rich and famous.

ur right. being a nikka did make him rich and .... cac do perpetuate those images.

Your wrong in that hip hop created this. black dudes were saying this shyt in the 50's - 30 years before hip hop and probably before. Even Malcolm x was walking around calling nikkas nikkas before he was enlightened.

 

[Blackking]

But see you have to understand their culture a little, they are really upfront about what they think. I had a couple Chinese co-workers and they are very opinionated. Even to the point of rudeness. But they live in a country where 95% of them have never met or talked to a Black person. Now you mix that and of course you are going to find some st0rmfr0nt shyt from them on the internet. Especially the ones who are ALLOWED to get on the internet. But that is what happens when you don't get any personal exposure to people of different cultures. I mean we all think that Chinese people eat dog and all know some form of Kung Fu. I take a different view, I look at cultures as a whole as children. If a group of people have never met another group they are going to act weird. Until they get to know you. Now if you have history between each other, such as wars, you will experience a different type of treatment. Japanese and Chinese today are damn near about to go to war over two uninhabited islands. It's deep. But I don't think that the way they view us is racist. It's just uninformed and that can go both ways.

Where did it come from that they eat dogs?

Kung fu isn't popular in China and a staple of their culture?

 

[无名的]

Where did it come from that they eat dogs?

Kung fu isn't popular in China and a staple of their culture?

I didn't get that. Both are true on some level.



Eating dog is becoming less frequent, but it still happens a lot in certain regions. I've seen skinned dogs hanging up, ready for cooking.

I once ate a nice donkey sandwich in China.