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Black people are too sensitive to the word. We call other people all kinds of names and they don't care a bit what we call them, because they understand who they are and love who they are.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a word will never hurt me. I am Black and above the N word. It is used to TRY and demean me much less than it is used as a term of endearment. I accept it however it may come, and deal with it accordingly.

I am too Black, and too strong. The people I emulate were never daunted by being called the N word. They called each other the N word just like we do today. Just like other races jokingly call each other derogatory names. Our Black ancestors loved themselves and achieved great things despite a word.

If you focus so much on a word, chances are you have no clue of what our real struggles are- keeping Black men out of the penal system, increasing two-parent families, education, and poverty. What can the N word do about soliving those problems?

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The words that we use, only mean something, when people ignorant enough believes them, I am black male, I have lived in the so called hoods, which doesn't even exist, the hood is just a word, wherever you live can be considered your hood. I appreciate white people and only for one reason, without them, their would be no checks and balances, without them, we would really see what that word NIGGER, really means, the majority of us, wouldn't even come outside and would be begging the white man for help...until we change our thinking, it doesn't matter what words we use,,anybody that lives their life thru rap music, has a bigger problem than the so called N-word,,,it called IGNORANCE. I am not a so called HOUSE NIGGER, just intelligent enough to realize reality.

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I'm with T.I. I won't take it out of my vocabulary either. Every once in a while there is still cause to use any one of those terms. I called Justin Timberlake a niggah after what he did to Janet. Trying to ban a word is just stupid. When, ever in the history of time was a word successfully banned? In order to take the sting out of any of those words is to not focus on them so much. Enough already!!!!!!!!

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There are many cruel things that will be said and done throughout our lives. It is up to those who teach us (our parents, teachers, friends) to show us what is right or wrong. With a good foundation we learn to filter out the bad. We cannot control our enviroment, but we can control ourselves.

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Booooo!..And yet another cop-out. It's amazing the b.s. we play into, I wonder what types of environments you all think the R&B singers of yesteryear lived in. Truth is they lived in the same types as now, with the same negativity etc. but they somehow seemed to base almost every song on love and happiness, even though there was'nt a lot of it. And even when they sang on the negativity of our communities, they did it without calling anybody niggas, bitches and hos. Just because it's what we see or grow up around does'nt mean that it's "ALL" we "HAVE" to see. The white record companies promote this garbage because they want to portray an image of our communities that is 100% negative. I'm gonna keep saying this, WAKE UP BLACK PEOPLE.

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As black people we do need to step up. As a race we need to stop the hate towards each other. I listen to rap music, and I understand what some of these people have went thru, 9 times out 10 they have lived around junkies & hoe's. Far as the N* word I suppose we have taken it and made it our own word of expression, I see the difference in spelling and meaning. But for black women sometimes the way you carry your self gives black men a mindful thought that we are hoe's, when you are half ass naked in videos,shaken your ass all over the place, what do you look like, even tho you may not be a hoe.Today it's about how you carry your self the image of you is what gives people something to talk about!

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IF YOU USE DIFFERENT WORDS, PERHAPS BIGGER WORDS TO REPLACE NIGGA, BITCH AND HOES BLACK AMERICANS WILL LEARN TO SUBSTITUTE THOSE WORDS. I WAS TOLD THAT PEOPLE WITH LACK OF MONEY HAVE LOW VOCABULARY SO SOMEONE LIKE T.I. NEEDS TO THINK TWICE ABOUT WHAT HE SAYS BECAUSE HE DON'T CARE HES SELLING OFF THAT HARDCORE RAP.

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It has to start somewhere, why not with our music. Because we are asking rappers to stop using the n word, or stop calling our females "b's" and "w's" is not trying to restrict their rights of freedom of speech, but it is a request to respect our race by not calling us stupid or ignorant, and to respect our women by not calling them dogs or saying that we lay down with anyone. If we as black people don't stand up for our race and women, then who will?

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I feel that society spends to much time with debates on hip hop lyrics. The put the hip hop culture under a microscope to try to find the smallest flaw. I feel that hip hop is poetry and poetry is art. If the the words b**ch,H*, and N**ga afend you hav not come from the same type of struggle as the artist and becuase of this u have a bias opinion on the word. These words are not always used in a derogatory manner. And these word do not influence peoples actions. I hav listen to hip hop all my life i hav heeard these words used millions if not billions of time and im not robbing people disrespecting woman or breaking the law.

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