Social Impact Of The Word Nigga

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After my extensive research of the word nigga I have started to realize that the word is not at all the ignorant expression of African Americans trying to drive a wedge between the black and white community as I originally had thought but, instead it is a representation of all of the oppression and hatred that had to be overcome by the minority races. I learned that through all of there hardship and struggles they were able to take something that was specifically designed and sculpted to express pure hatred and turn it into a word that they use to express love. Shaquille O’ Neal on TNT’s NBA Tip Off says “In todays society the “n-word” is a negative word but Chuck makes a good point in todays culture we have programed ourselves to use the word positively…” (Shaquille O’ Neal, Charles Barkley on using “nigga”: White America Doesn’t Get To Decide: Deadspin.com) O’ Neal later goes on to express that there is a defined difference between a positive and negative use of the word and that in society more often than not it is the positive version that both African American and white people tend to use in conversation. …show more content…
Through writing “The Social Impact of the Word Nigga” I learned that the word goes against what we usually expect a word to be and do. In words that are designed to degrade another people they often grow exponentially into a word that eventually inspires hatred in the masses however, the word nigga opposes the social norms for a word in that it grew exponentially in pure defiance of its original intended use to now inspire and grow everything it was designed to humiliate and
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