Comments on: Take My Money and Call Me Nigger

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:34:38 +0000

Sorry I did not proofread until after hitting submit. There are better hip ways to greet one another.

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:32:27 +0000

I hear this word on a daily basis in the hallways of my school. My students know that it is not allowed in my classsroom or around me. Some use it as a greeting…what’s up my “N.” There are better hip ways to great one another. I tend to correct students when I hear such a derogatory word.

Thanks for this post. I want to use this next year for a class journal entry.

I love you Sister Valerie! I thank God for speaking through you. Thanks for your words of wisdom!!

By: Saunya

Saunya — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:37:35 +0000

Although I am guilty of having used the word for many years (after I was “grown”), I have since been educated on its initial meaning & intent. I now do my best NOT to use it. I find it very offensive and degrading. I agree with many before me that we (blacks) are the only culture of people that use a negative term (used to humiliate us), to engage in every day conversation. We justify its use by saying- “its a term of endearment” or “I use it so that when they (other cultures) use it, it doesn’t mean anything.” Yeah right! I believe that, even with ‘free speech’, we should have enough self-respect and black pride that we would chose NOT to record such derrogatory terms and then sell it to our younger generation. They don’t know any better than what we teach them. If the older ones don’t stand for something- its effect is causing the younger ones to fall for anything.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:19:05 +0000

Agreed, agreed, agreed. Unfortunately, it’s some black people who continue to legitimize the word.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:15:10 +0000

Hi Corrie, thanks for dropping by granny’s blog. I’m glad you agree that the N word is unacceptable.