Its mental conditioning. Its a word derived from a negative word and still a negative word..I see them as one in the same when its delivered by a non black. Words hold power and if you systematically have a race or races of people using a word to the point it runs out their mouth like water it does something to those the word originally was termed for and used against. My thing is getting some black unity and stopping this all together. No other race goes thru this or allows it. I know latinos, i grew up around them, they stick together. Don't ever think you getting a fair one with a latino, u getting jumped.
The whole "nikka vs ******" debate with people claiming that the former is a term of endearment is very problematic. The reason why nikka is spelled that way is not because it is a completely different word with a completely different meaning. It is spelled that way to reflect the vernacular of African Americans. It is like the word Brother and other words that end with er. Brother/Brotha and Sister/Sista the words mean the same thing just spelled differently to reflect how African Americans pronounce it. nikka and ****** mean the same thing that is why you hear it a lot when black folk are talking shyt to each other. "nikka get the fukk outta here with that shyt" "nikka sit your ass down" "nikka look at you!" "nikka I know you ain't talkin" and so on. When I was a kid the only people I knew who used nikka as a term of endearment was women. They would use alternatively for man. Instead of this is my new man/boyfriend my Aunt would say this is my new nikka. I don't know when, where or how it being used that way among men came to be but they've taken it and ran off with it.
I've heard black people when they get mad and some of them use the er word at other blacks in those situations.
If you want to blame something or get mad at anything it should be mainstream rap. Every damn rap song has the word in it. And it's not used in an offensive or prejudicial way.
"All a my (word) say blood, all a my (word) say cuz)"
"And we hate popo, wanna kill us dead in the streets fo sho (word)"
"My (word) my (word), my (word) my (word), my motherfukking (word)"
It's been normalized, and I understand the anger when someone says the er version.
I'm not buying the whole brother/brotha logic. Why would any African American use that word towards each other if it was a devil white mans word?
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