Nigger is not a word or phrase that shows love or affection, so stop saying you are using it as a term of endearment.
We were called nigger as we were stripped of our heritage, stripped of our titles, stripped of our history, stripped of our pride, stripped out of clothes and stripped of our dignity. Stripped of our names and called nigger.
We were called nigger when they stripped us of our language and beat us if we spoke it or tried to learn or read theirs.
When our people were called nigger it was while they raped the wife in front of her husband and their children.
Sold their children, sold their mother, sold their father, sold their sister, sold their brother and anyone their could bond with. Called us nigger and said we had no family, no friends and deserved no respect. Beat them and killed them when they were caught moving between plantations to visit their loved ones.
We were called nigger while they beat the man in front of his wife and kids to show them he had no say, no power, no rights.
We were called nigger while they killed the children in front of the men and women and dared them to care; dared them to react.
When we were finally freed from slavery, they continued to call us nigger.
We were called nigger as we were dragged from our homes and strung in trees.
We were called nigger when we were dragged out of our cars on public roads and burned on crosses in the name of hate and their God.
We were called nigger as we were denied proper jobs, proper housing and proper education.
We were called nigger when we tried to start our own neighborhood shops and keep our money in our own communities.
Called nigger as they burned our shops and our churches.
We were called niggers when we tried to unify ourselves and be heard in our cities, states and with the federal government.
We were called less than human, less than an animal, less than a dog: a nigger!
Which of these acts, associated with being called a nigger, shows love or affection?
They began to call us "colored" in public for economic gain.
Come spend your money, but don't sit here, don't drink here, don't crap here.
Come spend your money "colored" person, but don't eat here, shop there not here, don't enter here; use the back door. This is still not love nor affection for you, but love and affection for your money.
When you call each other niggers, you are cosigning and seconding their vote of hate. You have drank the Kool-Aid and are holding your own people back. Choosing to call those, whom you love and have affection for, a nigger.
We were called "black" when they wanted our vote.
Calling each other man and woman or brother and sister or sir and ma'am shows love and affection.
Just like with the fake black history programs in public school, you can't begin at the end of the story and hope to educate. You can't just talk about Martin Luther King Jr without talking about why there was a need for a MLK Jr! Just like with black history in public schools, you can't just make up your own version of history so that you can feel comfortable reading it.
Our History is uncomfortable. Our history is painful. Our history is incomprehensible. The only thing you can change is the future that grew from that past history and not let the future be a duplication of that pain.
Wake up!
by Carl Thetechguy .
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