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NiaScottThePoet (November 28th, 2009 @ 11:08 pm)
If you like this, you would love my poetry!
ArAb1535 (November 28th, 2009 @ 7:56 pm)
@megahann12 oh yeah i know you didnt say anything about the "n word" lol but that was the whole point of me giving this big fat lecture lol but ya everybody wants to attack you on youtube but never will they say this to you if you where walking down the street lol
megahann12 (November 28th, 2009 @ 5:09 pm)
woah no, i didn't say anything about n. that's a completely different story i think. that's a directed word. haha good one covering your bases, so easy to get attacked here :P
ArAb1535 (November 28th, 2009 @ 5:01 pm)
@megahann12 your right it is kinda like some sort of temporary name with out much meaning to it thats the same way with the word nigga or the word black people over the years we changed our name at least 6 or 7 different time, so why is it so offensive if sombody from another race calls us nigger??? we do it but its not offensive, why is that. we need a reality check quick, AND NO IM NOT TRYING TO ARGUE WITH EVERYBODY, IM JUST STATING THE OBVIOUS
megahann12 (November 28th, 2009 @ 3:20 pm)
that was awesome, i've never seen this and i say i love erykah? i should be ashamed of myself. amazing
megahann12 (November 28th, 2009 @ 3:14 pm)
that's the one thing that gets me, i would never call someone anything other than what they'd prefer, but is "black" offensive? i'm honestly wondering, i'm white, i get called white. i'm aussie, i get called aussie, with a mean tone (actually we get called "fucking aussies", or convicts lol, but ehhh nothing gets to us either) "Black" seems like a sort of temporary all-covering term imo, i've just always wondered if "black" was the same as "yellow"?
ArAb1535 (November 28th, 2009 @ 4:47 am)
i understand what ur trying to say but hear me out, that word cant hurt you unless you take it to heart. even my friends grandmother said that black people today are way too sensitive about that word, we cant continue this "cycle" unless we start living and acting like niggas saying it is one thing, acting it is another being called a nigger is no different from being called an afro american or a black person neither of those names are our original name.
RunawayTrane (November 27th, 2009 @ 11:07 pm)
Brotha, it's not about how others refer to us, but rather how we refer to OURSELVES. Doesnt apply to Ms.Badu, she already has knowledge of self, but too many of us, especially the young folks, have completely disregarded any semblance of their true heritage that we had left (after slavery) and replaced it with some diluted, basterdized form of culture we refer to as ghetto. Until we RE-embrace that which made us great as a people we are doomed to keep repeating the same old cycle of crap
itsCutie89 (November 27th, 2009 @ 4:31 pm)
i love erykah but she has to stop using the word nigga. look it up in the dictionary and see what it means the the spelling is niggerd. look it up and see if its something you should answer to.
Poeticlifebylove (November 25th, 2009 @ 12:14 pm)
Wish I could get Some Badu-ism on Poetic Life. We do Poetry Over Music and it's SOOOOOOO HOOOOT!!!! click on my channel we have two Def Jam Poets so far.
kaylavictoria321 (November 25th, 2009 @ 7:41 am)
omg i love her so much she really reminds me of the women in my family she is so talented
cornrowedlowe (November 25th, 2009 @ 4:39 am)
I love this woman!

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