i will support your comment with a link:
http://www.speechmusic.com/interactive/lyrics/People_Everyday.html
but i dont use that word myself and i get irritated when it is applied to me. my friends husband does this constantly. he knows it bothers me but i think he is trying to make me feel like one of the folks. i feel like one of the folks already, thanks.
say whoooaaa, whoooaaa. say yeeeahhh, yeeeahhh. whoa, whoa. yeah, yeah. whoa, yeah. whoa, yeah. whoa, yeah. whoa, yeah.
other slurs are acceptable on ezabel. i myself was a little leery of using "guinea" the first time, but no one was offended.
Guinea (def from http://www.wordorigins.org)
Like Dago, this derogatory term for Italians did not originally refer to that particular ethnic group. Guinea comes from Guinea Negro and originally referred to any black or any person of mixed ancestry. This sense dates to the 1740s. By the 1890s it was being applied to Italians--almost certainly because they tend to have darker skin than Anglo-Saxons/Germans. By 1911 the term began being applied to Hispanics, although the reference to Italians is the most common.
the whole point of using the words in everyday life is to take the hatred out of them. not to wince like a "beaten" child remembering things that didn't happen to them.
it's edgy and certainly a guilty pleasure to say them, for sure. i believe, as long as the hatred is bled out and the person hearing the word isn't offended--there isn't any harm in it.
then we have the bleeding hearts. they are inconsolable.
very eloquent! i think that word is the last one to be bled of hate bc it is still generally unacceptable in society for a "white" person to use it. between the way i was raised and my fear of upsetting others, im picky about my word choices but i am not easily offended myself.
i'm kind of rebellious in that sense. whats good for goose is good for the gander. i don't buy into double standards. i'm not into appeasing a group for any reason, let alone for something that itself perpetuates a new racism. "you can't use nigga because that'd be the white man crashing our picnic. you don't know of our struggle. you were the ones holding us down. you using that word, even without a hateful connotation AND a structure revision, is disrespectful and we don't feel you've earned the right to say it because your ancestors weren't discriminated against." i say FUNK all that. we live in a world with a strict, multi-tiered class system. EVERYONE at some point has been discriminated against with varying levels of intensity. i'm not down-playing what they went thru, but seriously, it's been a while. slavery is long, long gone in America. i'd appreciate a green light from the black community for white folks use the word nigga.
note: nigger and nigga aren't the same word anymore. they mean two completely different things. nigger is a faceless, colorless ignorant individual. nigga is a friend to whom you've lent trust or sometimes used as a term of endearment used for friend prone to folly.
But right now I'm gonna need YOU TOMMY BOY!