Was Kanye really that off for wearing the Confederate Flag?

[jadillac]

Firstly, I'm in support of them taking the flag down, however.....

Do you ever think about when the first Blacks started referring to each other as "nikka" many, many years ago? And perhaps it was not even in a friendly manner at first as it later became, but I bet many Black people HATED being called the word by other Blacks b/c of it's painful association to slavery, and by racist whites. And don't get it twisted, many racist backwoods southerners pronounced it as "nikka", too.

We didn't invent the "n" word, it was a derogatory word used and assigned to us. But, whether right or wrong, we took a supremely negative symbol(the word) and made it our own, which ultimately took away alot of it's power.

I feel like that's what Kanye was doing. And of course there's gonna be Black people who pushed back against him now, just like I'm sure there were back when "nikka" began being used among each other.

But if the Confederate Flag had become a trend among Black people like the word "nikka" did, I guarantee alot of the racist white people would stop rocking it as hard and as proudly as they do because it would NO LONGER be offensive (to us) anymore and thus there'd be almost nothing "rebellious" about it, and it essentially loses it's power.
Essentially we'd be thumbing our finger in their face with it just like we did with "nikka", and then not allowing them to use it.

Agree or disagree, just something to think about....

 

[KOohbt]

"As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race." Thats the meabing behind the flag.

Kanye makes good music but he's a dikk head for wearing it like some fukk nikka.

 

[jadillac]

"As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race." Thats the meabing behind the flag.

Kanye makes good music but he's a dikk head for wearing it like some fukk nikka.

That quote is nonsense, but consider this....

The word "niigger" is probably the ugliest word in ALL of human utterance, not just the English language. Yet, we re-appropriated it.

You take that quote and then we start wearing the flag. We take that foolishness and basically make a mockery of it.

They'd be pissed off to high heaven. They'd stop wearing it. It'd be "tarnished, tainted". And add to the fact that a negro (Kanye) was selling it and making money off it. more money than they could ever make, and that takes the mockery to an untouchable level.

 

[Samori Toure]

That quote is nonsense, but consider this....

The word "niigger" is probably the ugliest word in ALL of human utterance, not just the English language. Yet, we re-appropriated it.

You take that quote and then we start wearing the flag. We take that foolishness and basically make a mockery of it.

They'd be pissed off to high heaven. They'd stop wearing it. It'd be "tarnished, tainted". And add to the fact that a negro (Kanye) was selling it and making money off it. more money than they could ever make, and that takes the mockery to an untouchable level.

In all honesty I think that Kanye West is just an ignorant ******. It seems like a lot of people in the younger generations just thrive on ignorance for some reason and then they roll around in it and wear it like a badge of honor.

When I was a kid I heard Black people use the word ****** to describe some of our trifling family members and/or people in our neighborhood who were just ignorant. However, the word was used only amongst Black people and never in mixed company. Then the rappers started using it in their music and now every numbnut gang member with a microphone is shouting it out for the World to hear.

Now as far as the word ****** goes, I think that word has something to do with either the Niger River region or just the color black; although the word associated with just the color black (negro) doesn't seem to make much sense to me. My hunch is that the slaves probably objected to slavers telling the English in the slaves ports that the newest slaves were from the Niger River region in West Africa, because that might connote to the slaves that the English were saying that they were from certain tribes; when in fact the slaves might have wanted to let the slavers know that they were from some other region and other tribes; maybe further inland. The English might have assumed that word Niger was the insult to the slaves, when in fact the slaves might have only objected to being told were they were from. So the English probably assumed the word was objectionable, when it probably wasn't. Over time it is like that the word has become offensive, but no one probably ever figured out why it was probably offensive to the slaves. I kind of arrived at this conclusion after I saw the word names of the River Niger in West Africa and the countries Niger and Nigeria, which is a country that the English named. I noticed that certain words in English have a hard sound, so that might explain the extra "g" was added to Niger to make ******. I also noticed that just like that the English added the letter "g" to the word Ibo to make Igbo. The Ibo used to pronounced EEbo, but the English added the extra g and it is still pronounced the same way.

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

On a side note I also noticed that Black people use the word boo as a term of endearment. I always wondered if that word was somehow related to Igbo. Whites then used the word boo in the racial slur jiggaboo, which might make sense as a corruption of ****** and boo. Later on Whites just said the word jig, but they were using it in reference to dancing, which the slaves did a lot of. Anyway, I have always wondered were certain words and slurs came from; so that is my attempt at trying to get an answer for myself. I hope that someone else has the real answers.

 

[Kitsch]

That quote is nonsense, but consider this....

The word "niigger" is probably the ugliest word in ALL of human utterance, not just the English language. Yet, we re-appropriated it.

You take that quote and then we start wearing the flag. We take that foolishness and basically make a mockery of it.

They'd be pissed off to high heaven. They'd stop wearing it. It'd be "tarnished, tainted". And add to the fact that a negro (Kanye) was selling it and making money off it. more money than they could ever make, and that takes the mockery to an untouchable level.

How is it nonsense?

 

[jadillac]

How is it nonsense?

because it's pure dumbassness.