I have a very good question for every person... - I want answers....now!

[Roll]

Ok.. at 12:35 pm today, I was calmly drinking some nice Cherry tea, while waiting for Viper to get back from chasing a UPS truck. I was talking to some people while waiting, when one person I was talking to gave a very interesting message.
"I HATE when niggas leave during the game."
This came from a black person. Now I want some good answers, and I want them now.
Why do black people call themselves that? ; Because I am definitely certain that your ancestors (and my own as well) did not spend over two hundred years fighting for the rights that you have today, just for you to call each other such a bad name that destroyed so many lives and minds in the past. Do you think it is cute? Funny? Cool? Well, let's be honest and blunt here.

<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>It isn't.</span>
It is wrong, bad, and demented; as it always has been. So could someone tell me a good reason why it's sooooooooo good to call each other that?

[pip99]

Tupac...


Nigger = a black slave

homie = a bad ass of a blackman


topic closed.



Edited By pip99 on Mar. 21 2004 at 16:05

[m0u5y]

how about taking power away from the white people, the power of the word from them and the power to put them down with it and to use it for their own shtuff. well its just a guess, from what ive learned from my frienz

[Saijin_Ryu]

Ive heard many people use this word, sometimes even directed at a causacian man. I dont think its used by these people in a way of verbal abuse, more like an over-used nickname.

Many small people use this word to act "Gangsta" like their favourite rappers : 50 cent....exc....

im probably wrong but thats my view on the word.



Edited By Saijin_Ryu on Mar. 22 2004 at 20:07

[pip99]

I always call my black mates "homie"

one of my qoutes lol i say all the time

" hows my favourite homie "



haha its says homie when its supposed to say

Ni _gg -A



Edited By pip99 on Mar. 21 2004 at 16:09

[MasterX05]

its kool thing to say Roll. For u see the term we find offence to our race is the word "Nigger" Which means ignorant black person. Negro is another word to describe someone of the dark skin race, so its not just meaning black's.

Now "homie" is the slang word we use like pip said. I even have a greek/white friend who says it but in a kool way. I even call someone who aint black that. "yo look at that homie right thurr" I might say some mess like that. But you know its the word Nigger which is not nice to say.

lol and no Ryu we dont say it to be Gangsta.



Edited By MasterX05 on Mar. 22 2004 at 16:07

[Roll]

Look.. While that may be true... it doesn't seem very funny at all. Or... Cool. It's degrading..and somewhat cruel to yourselves.. and I'm just going to have to say this now:
You're setting yourselves up for a very VERY large fall, and that makes me worry. I really cannot believe that anyone could even enjoy calling themselves such names.. but then I guess it must be because I am me: Unattached to the world, and out of the loop.

[vx_unicom]

Ok.. at 12:35 pm today, I was calmly drinking some nice Cherry tea, while waiting for Viper to get back from chasing a UPS truck. I was talking to some people while waiting, when one person I was talking to gave a very interesting message.
"I HATE when niggas leave during the game."
This came from a black person. Now I want some good answers, and I want them now.
Why do black people call themselves that? ; Because I am definitely certain that your ancestors (and my own as well) did not spend over two hundred years fighting for the rights that you have today, just for you to call each other such a bad name that destroyed so many lives and minds in the past. Do you think it is cute? Funny? Cool? Well, let's be honest and blunt here.

<span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>It isn't.</span>
It is wrong, bad, and demented; as it always has been. So could someone tell me a good reason why it's sooooooooo good to call each other that?
Roll i hope u found the answer to your question because i don't think its a good idea to let this topic continue!!!! Why?? Some people might find it offensive because u never know they might be someone who is gangasta.......and get offended because they don't say homie in a bad way but as a way of saying hi. SO TOPIC CLOSED!!!. ???

[m0u5y]

its just a WORD and im not trying to be mean but attitudes like that give it such a negative connotation. my bf was raised by "homies" and he n his homies always call each other this n that. its part of a modern culture that will not change. they give a positive connotation to a word that otherwise could be considered insulting. and anywho, its a good way to rhyme in rap lol.

[VatoLoco6969]

homie can also mean for a mexican no t just for a black person

[Roll]

Roll i hope u found the answer to your question because i don't think its a good idea to let this topic continue!!!! Why?? Some people might find it offensive because u never know they might be someone who is gangasta.......and get offended because they don't say homie in a bad way but as a way of saying hi. SO TOPIC CLOSED!!!.
Please turn away from this thread. You're not helping at all, and you're just stating already thought of risks. No one needs you to state the obvious, at least not in this thread.


M0u5y... I suppose you're right. I just worry anyway, though. I feel like sometime soon, this will backfire somehow; not in a small way, but in a large way. One that people will fight over, and possibly destroy each other with. I'm just wondering why that kind of risk is okay to everyone, and why they accept calling themselves what used to be such a horrible word.

[marvel911]

I actually dont think this is racism...Whatever culture you are..there is an offensive term like that. Personally, I've been called "Cracka" by some guys (white and black) in a non-threatening way at school..now I didnt freak out or give a lecture on not to be racist...I found it funny, cuz it is! So as far as I'm concerned..if a black man has no problem being called a "homie" by another person..hey right on do what ya want.

[Angel-Eyes]

its just an american thing.

i spend like 2 years in africa and i never heard anyone call me or each other that.

[Elena]

Dang Roll. You are so direct. "I want answers NOW!"

Ok, here you go. Like some stated before they do it to sound cool. There are so many stars today that just use the word just to use it. And so the little kids go around saying that word thinking it is so cool because their role model used it, unaware that the word means something bad, degrating and disrespectful. And some keep use it because it's probably become a habit by now or they just don't care.

What I think is really stupid? Is that a black person will become angry if a person of another race says it. When I think it is worst when a person of the same race says it. When it means the same thing all around. Although they think it (homie) means friend/homie.

Kester:
Ooo, you went to Africa. Why? What part? (sorry to go off topic)

Anyways, then again people in Africa don't even know what F**k means and they don't do anything if you flick them off. Because they don't know what you are saying.



Edited By Elena on Mar. 22 2004 at 17:55

[Angel-Eyes]

ghana west africa
http://www.informatuttonet.com/atlante/mappe03/ghana.gif



but everyone spoke english there, and a lot of them did know what f*** meant

[TarkanX]

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