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>At 11:54 PM 3/13/00 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>> If one is more than 1/128th negro, one is "African-American." Though
>> I've never understood why this is not just marked "niggah," as
>> niggah is what the niggaz almost always refer to each other as.
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>All of the people I know with significant negro blood (which is not
>many) are engineers or the like, and they do not refer to black people
>as niggers. When they use the word nigger, it does not mean a black
>person, it means a black person who is lazy, stupid, ignorant,
>thieving, and violent, which does not describe a majority of black
>people.
It really depends on the part of town you live in.
The way people who live on the East side of Clark and
Division in Chicago speak, and the way people 6 blocks to the west
speak would amaze you.
>This is somewhat odd because I have been hearing white people say that
>black people use the word nigger in an affectionate manner in order to
>remove the negative associations. On the other hand according to
>Horowitz, when black people call someone "bad", meaning impressive,
>this does not mean that the "bad" person is impressive because he
>actually good. It means he is impressive because he is capable of
>doing violent things to those who fail to be impressed by him.
Horowitz is wrong. That may have been the case at one time,
but not any longer.
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