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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Personally I wonder if blacks use the word in a comraderic fashion to try to take ownership of it themselves in an effort to take much of the vile sting and power out of it from the whites who used it to to benefit themselves and dehumanize the whole black race in referring to its people derogatorily as nothing more than chattel and property for centuries right up through to the present time. It means total subjugation and humiliation, lack of any power and pain of every kind and use of force to be made to serve and work and humble oneself in behalf of a race of people whether they wanted to or not, liked it or not. I am only surmising but if I could take the power from a word that had been used against my family and my people from way back, I believe I would. |
My coworker, who is black, says this is why it is used. Word for word what I highlighted is what he said.