Nas Album Pushed Back - Now His Album The 'N Word' Will Come Out During BLACK HISTORY MONTH - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2008


NAS ALBUM PUSHED BACK - NOW HIS ALBUM THE 'N WORD' WILL COME OUT DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
 






November 27, 2007. The year in music wouldn't be complete without another album push back. MediaTakeOut.com has learned that Nas' new album - called The 'N Word' has been pushed back to February next year.

But there's more to this pushback. The word coming out of Def Jam is that they're looking to capitalize on the controversy by having it released at the start of Black History Month.

Nas, we know you're trying to be provocative and sell records. But you need to be smarter than to have some fools over at a record label push you into doing some disrespectful mess like this....
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    imaflirt20
    1st
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    beatifully human
    hanzm
    DAG NAS
     
    BLESSEDWIT2
    wtf??? 1ST
     
    caramel7196
    THEY ALWAYS PUSHING ALBUMS BACK!!
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    Its My World..Now and Forever!
    cat4everrr
    stop playing..lol. i'm gonna boycott his tail if it gets released during black history month. just crapping over all the hard work of his fore fathers
     
    joesama
    nas sucks... hiphop died when he signed under hov... sucker...
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    I‘M BACK...FRESH OFFA HATECATION..
    BKsQueen
    Oh wow!
    Whata way to represent your self and race!
     
    gcjazz
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    bigfella
    Wow, that's a slap in the face to black people everywhere
     
    MRSGOODIDEA
    GOOD MORNING ALL
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    GIVE 4 DA CAUSE N0T 4 DA APPLAUSE.LEAD
    muzali
    wtf is nas on anyway X.....y would u name yo albulm that
     
    JuiceBox
    he looks real sexy and dapper in that photo up there.
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    "Fcuk These Banana Trees!!!!"
    DeeChocolate
    What happened to Nas...He was so pro-black,now he is just that, a ni&&a. Maybe his funds are drying up?
     
    maxi
    Good Morning...is it me or is Nas looking better than ever!!!! Is he still with Kelis?
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    ----Pop goes the weasel----
    Antidumb
    We need to show WHO'S BOSS

    Let White People look like RETARDS, at the counter buying this CRAP.

    I don't care what he says on the album we are not trying to give White People NEW licenses to use the word.

    WE MUST KNOW WHERE IN CONTROL.

    At the end of the day Artist will DO WHAT WE SAY, to sell ALBUMS, they better or THEY WILL BE DROPPED FROM THEIR LABEL.

    Nas(though good back in the day) He is TOO HIGH, to give him this type of ARTISTIC CONTROL over such a SENSITIVE WORD being the NAME OF HIS ALBUM.

    I saw him being interviewed by a White lady he couldn't even explain what the album was going to be about, and she asked him could she say the word he told her YES if she's talking about the album.

    HE SOUNDS LIKE A DAMN FOOL, AND NEEDS TO GO SIT DOWN IN REHAB SOMEWHERE, HIM AND KELIS WHO'S DOWNSLIDING.
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    Are Our Ancestors Proud??
    mocha_frap
    right on antidumb!! right on!!!
     
    SherRoyal
    @JOESAMA....I AGREE HE SOLD HIS SOLD TO THE DEVIL AND LOOK WHAT IT GAVE HIM.....NOTHIN BUT A FEW CAMEOS IN HOV'S VIDEOS......SMH
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    Ju,Me and He.
    sosincere
    dooes anyone here actually listen to NAS? I am guessing NOT! Look I am a hip hop head to the fullest. If nas is naming his album this it is because he is being political in nature. He is trying to make a statement about the word, culture, and society in general! If Cornell West announced that he was going to give a speech called "Ni$$a" everyone would already know dude got something relevant to say. They would not question his motives because it would be an understood that he is going to attack this cultural stigma at some level! They would already know that he is not BLINDLY doing this, it is done deliberately and with some type of message! THE SAME WITH NAS PEOPLE!!!!! He is one of the most prolific and political hip hop stars of my generation. THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT UP ON HIP HOP SHOULD REFRAIN FROM COMMENTING ABOUT IT. Everyone is in agreement that it needs to be sort of reborn but the misguided attacks do just as much harm as the hoe's and bytch's. For yall not to know why dude is naming his album this lets me know ya'll don't listen to the man!
     
    sosincere
    AND ANTIDUMB......AGAIN....check more than one source. As a matter of fact check PLAYAHATA.COM. Not only did Nas give a very well articulated reason for why he is naming his album this he also gave a his perspective into the word, hip hop culture and it's influences and what will be it's demise.
     
    tallbone
    I listen to Nas and hip hop! I dont see the point in him naming his album this! In fact, I still dont see why people use the word PERIOD!
     
    brotherj
    I bet Mr. & Mrs YT is celebrating right now. This is a sorry shame for us as black people! Young blacks don't know their history, if they did they would know why many of us would be upset!!
     
    MDL219
    Sosincere, you are 100%. I can not wait to hear this one. I am going to buy as many copies of it as I can. It needs to be heard.
     
    sosincere
    tallbone if you REALLY listen to Nas HOW do you not understand why he is naming his album this. THE POINT IS NOONE KNOWS WHAT HE IS EXACTLY GOING TO SAY UNTIL HIS ALBUM DROPS! But if you listen to Nas you should know it has to do with SOMETHING POLITICAL IN NATURE. He is going to in some way attack the word...not big up it!
     
    sosincere
    from an interview with NAS FROM PLAYAHATA.COM.
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    I’m a street disciple. I’m talking to the streets. Stay out of our business. You ain’t got no business worrying about what the word ‘n***er’ is or acting like you know what my album is about without talking to me. Whether you in the NAACP or you Jesse Jackson. I respect all of them … I just want them to know: Never fall victim to Fox. Never fall victim to the s**t they do. What they do is try to hurry up and get you on the phone and try to get you to talk about something you might not know about yet.”

    Nas continued, “If Cornell West was making an album called N***er, they would know he’s got something intellectual to say. To think I’m gonna say something that’s not intellectual is calling me a [EXPLETIVE], and to be called a [EXPLETIVE] by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary.”

    The rapper also explained what he hopes to accomplish by titling the album, N***er. He said, “I wanna make the word easy on mutha****as’ ears. You see how white boys ain’t mad at ‘cracker’ ’cause it don’t have the same (sting) as ‘[EXPLETIVE]’? I want ‘[EXPLETIVE]’ to have less meaning (than) ‘cracker.’ With all the bulls**t that’s going on in the world, racism is at its peak. I wanna do the s**t that’s not being done. I wanna be the artist who ain’t out. I wanna make the music I wanna hear.”

    The rapper added, “We’re taking power from the word. No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil-rights movement, but some of my dudes in the streets don’t know who (civil-rights activist) Medgar Evers was. I love Medgar Evers, but some of the brothas in the streets don’t know Medgar Evers, they know who Nas is. And to my older people who don’t now who Nas is and who don’t know what a street disciple is, stay outta this mutha****in’ conversation. We’ll talk to you when we’re ready. Right now, we’re on a whole new movement. We’re taking power from that word.”


    HOPE THIS CLEARS IT UP FOR SOME OF YA'LL
     
    sosincere
    the "expetives" are the word ni$$A. So ya'll know!
     
    Antidumb
    @sosincere

    And when he PORTRAYED JESUS ON THE CROSS.

    Then did the song with GINUNEWINE "PAY ME BACK", basically saying he's a PIMP.

    What did that mean?

    PLEASE

    NAS is ALL ABOUT PUBLICITY STUNTS, and your TOO WHIPPED BY THE HYPE TO SEE IT.

    His first albums when there was LESS PRESSURE he was being MORE OF A CONSIOUS BROTHER.

    Now, he's just desperate to SELL LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, and will DO ANYTHING CONTROVERSAL.

    In these current times, is it MANDATORY for him to continue to spread a word that can be USED AGAINST US?

    NO

    I hope the alubm comes out, and you have to explain and be a spokesperson for him about WHY WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T SAY [EXPLETIVE], when it gets to the point NAS IS TAKING IT.

    STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH SOCIETY.

    Take a STANCE STAND BY IT.

    DOES THE WORD OFFEND YOU OR NOT?

    WE CAN BE PAINS IN THE ASSES.
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    chocolatemocha
    Thats a good stunt! But Nas is an intellegent rapper he has a statement.


    2007 Sexiest Artist/ 2008 Calendar
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    slimbrn
    what a loser! wanna be a star 4 life!
     
    sosincere
    antidumb......
    #1 When he portrayed jusus on the cross he was using a metaphore for the fact that whenever you STAND up and speak the truth you will carry a cross, a burden to bear! (hell my pastor says that every other week in church). And he calls himself a STREET DECIPLE....a reference to christianity...a statement meaning he is the one who talks for the brther on the street, the thugs, the dope boys. He says he speaks for that segment of the population that folks like you deem as worthless.
    # 2 He is an artist not Jesus himself. Marvin Gaye broke ground when he released songs such as Troubled Man and whats going on , BUT the critics discredited him because they say he made songs like sexual heeling. (that song although popular was very controversial at the time). Tupac made Dear mama, Trapped, and Brendas got a baby, but made Hitem up and I get around. Trick daddy makes some the most ignorant songs to date but also got BANGGERS like AmeriKKKa. Martin L. King was an adulter, Noah was a drunk...so on and so forth. So what was your point?
    #3 I do not condone the word. I do not use the word at all in everyday conversation. BUT what I also don't make it a habit to do is to bash brothers who are OBVIOUSLY trying to raise the consciousness of my people, no matter if I like the packaging or not. Nas had like 10 conscious songs on his last album. He except with 1 album has consistently dropped conscious music...so what are you talking about? You would discredit his complete package over the minority club songs he puts out?
    #4 why in every post you offer do you bring up us in regards to how WHITE folks see us. You seem less concerned with the empowerment of your people than what you do withthe fact that we embarrass you in front of your cracka friends!! You ALWAYS come off like our soul mission as black folks is to gain approval in whity's society! Im sorry sweetie I see relevance and potential in all my people. From the dope boys to corporate ken. The dope boys need direction, but you cannot reach them fighting that 1960's fight. Its a new day and we need a new approach. Let Nas open up eyes the way he can! Like he said they dont know Medgar but they know him! How can you be so critical over the PACKAGING without examining the content?????? Thats a very foolish move, and a very shallow way to analyze anything! Just my opinion but you need to stick to academia and leave the streets to someone else! You talk to middle class black america and let someone else handle the rest. Your problem is you seem to think that one approach will work for the entire struggle for equality. NOT THE CASE. Bill Cosby is the man for my Dad. Nas is the man for my Son!
     
    sweetluxury
    Nas keep doing yo thing!!! haters fall back cuz all you muthafukkas is gon buy tha shyt! especially if they play it on the radio 100 times a day like they do all that other bullshyt. i love you Nas! wit yo fine ass!!!!
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    sosincere
    did you not read what the brother said?????? how can you hate on that?
     
    Nubian_Huntress
    I have to agree with sosincere on this one. Before we get all outraged about this album, maybe we need to educate ourselves about Nas' intentions when naming it such a controversial word.

    And even if I don't necessarily agree with his logic, I definitely understand his reasoning. Why DO we continue to give this word so much power over us? Plenty of other ethnicities have been descriminated against and demeaned, but they haven't let their past and those racials slurs slow their roll. So why does the black community come to a screeching halt over one word? It's something that deserves discussion and if Nas thinks his album will serve as a catalyst to get us thinking, more power to him.

    It's like that whole "Read a Book" controversy from a while back. We condemn folks who are trying to get us to think outside of the box and take a look at our actions. Black satirist and social commentators can't get a leg up because anytime they hit on a touchy issue, we get outraged and run with it without really looking at the purpose.
     
    Antidumb
    LET ME JUST END THIS BECAUSE I KNOW AS A RACE

    WE HAVE OUR "HEADS UP OUR ASSES"

    Here's a quote and story from JILL SCOTT, WHO WAS CALLED A NIG*GER

    Explain to her HOW IT'S OK.

    OPEN THE FLOODGATES WHY DON'T YOU------

    Jill Scott explains a recent incident where she was called a [EXPLETIVE] and how she handled it:
    “I was waiting outside for the valet to bring the car round, and these … I say kids, but they must have been 25, looking wealthy, five-o’clock-in-the-morning wasted. And this guy’s saying, ‘Step back [EXPLETIVE], step back [EXPLETIVE].’ He’s saying it like it’s a song, but there’s nobody out there but me. I was taken aback, and I said, ‘Excuse me?’
    And he said, ‘Shut your mouth and don’t say a word when a white man is talking.’ Continue »

    “I’m not kidding. I started laughing, and I followed him and his cohorts through the parking lot laughing hysterically, and they became more and more uncomfortable. It was one of the best moments of outrageous laughter I’ve had. To think for one moment I could possibly fit into that box … I am so far from that word that it is funny. They looked so uncomfortable; I wanted to emasculate him, to make sure he was getting no nookie that night. The girls sobered up and were looking scared. It was something else - the first time in my life I’ve been called that. Wow. But I enjoyed it. You must fight back; it’s imperative. I like the fight in me now.”
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    We ARE NOT A THINKING RACE

    We think just because WE WANT TO CONTROL SOMETHING WE CAN.

    Do we even have CONTROL OVER OURSELVES? and what goes on in our COMMUNITIES.

    BUT WE WANT TO CONTROL THE WORLD. lol

    THat's why we are quickly becoming a JOKE, if NOT ALREADY TO MOST.

    INTELLIGENCE SEEMS TO ELUDE THIS GENERATION.

    We brag about the fact that WHITE PEOPLE mostly buy rap.

    Well hey! we didn't think ok they buy it, that means they will listen to the words.

    We have HANDED THE WORD NIG*GER TO SOCIETY.

    Along with WORDS THAT CONFIRM ALL THE STEREOTYPES THOUGHT OF US.

    I know thinking DEEP is hard for most, but it doesn't take a ROCKET SCIENTIST.

    NOW, to feel as if we are in control we want to try to DESENSITIZE THE WORD?

    It WON'T WORK, because it will ALWAYS BE USED AS A TOOL, WHEN THE PERSON IS ANGERED.

    Us putting it out there gives the A LICENSE, and a sense of OK'NESS with doing so.

    Just like the word "HOE", I havent' heard SO MANY WHITE PEOPLE use the word in MY LIFE.

    FORGET "WHORE", THEY SAY "HOE" KNOW

    Thanks to BLACK AMERICA, we use the MOST DEMEANING WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, THINKING IT'S OD.

    I would PAY BIG MONEY, to hear someone call you a "NIG*GER" to your face and you act like it DOESN'T MATTER.

    Not long ago Timberland went to Germany and got into an altercation because someone called him a "NIG*GER".

    Where SO CLUELESS, AND SAD, we REALLY THINK WE CAN PLAY WITH SOCIETY, and give them DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE WORD.

    AND TELL THEM WHAT TO DO? RETARDS

    PLEASE

    WE DO NOT THINK, WE REACT BASED ON EMOTION.

    And it makes us seem UNINTELLIGENT.

    PERIOD.
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    Antidumb
    LET ME JUST END THIS BECAUSE I KNOW AS A RACE

    WE HAVE OUR "HEADS UP OUR ASSES"

    Here's a quote and story from JILL SCOTT, WHO WAS CALLED A NIG*GER

    Explain to her HOW IT'S OK.

    OPEN THE FLOODGATES WHY DON'T YOU------

    Jill Scott explains a recent incident where she was called a [EXPLETIVE] and how she handled it:
    “I was waiting outside for the valet to bring the car round, and these … I say kids, but they must have been 25, looking wealthy, five-o’clock-in-the-morning wasted. And this guy’s saying, ‘Step back [EXPLETIVE], step back [EXPLETIVE].’ He’s saying it like it’s a song, but there’s nobody out there but me. I was taken aback, and I said, ‘Excuse me?’
    And he said, ‘Shut your mouth and don’t say a word when a white man is talking.’ Continue »

    “I’m not kidding. I started laughing, and I followed him and his cohorts through the parking lot laughing hysterically, and they became more and more uncomfortable. It was one of the best moments of outrageous laughter I’ve had. To think for one moment I could possibly fit into that box … I am so far from that word that it is funny. They looked so uncomfortable; I wanted to emasculate him, to make sure he was getting no nookie that night. The girls sobered up and were looking scared. It was something else - the first time in my life I’ve been called that. Wow. But I enjoyed it. You must fight back; it’s imperative. I like the fight in me now.”
    --------------------------------------------------
    We ARE NOT A THINKING RACE

    We think just because WE WANT TO CONTROL SOMETHING WE CAN.

    Do we even have CONTROL OVER OURSELVES? and what goes on in our COMMUNITIES.

    BUT WE WANT TO CONTROL THE WORLD. lol

    THat's why we are quickly becoming a JOKE, if NOT ALREADY TO MOST.

    INTELLIGENCE SEEMS TO ELUDE THIS GENERATION.

    We brag about the fact that WHITE PEOPLE mostly buy rap.

    Well hey! we didn't think ok they buy it, that means they will listen to the words.

    We have HANDED THE WORD NIG*GER TO SOCIETY.

    Along with WORDS THAT CONFIRM ALL THE STEREOTYPES THOUGHT OF US.

    I know thinking DEEP is hard for most, but it doesn't take a ROCKET SCIENTIST.

    NOW, to feel as if we are in control we want to try to DESENSITIZE THE WORD?

    It WON'T WORK, because it will ALWAYS BE USED AS A TOOL, WHEN THE PERSON IS ANGERED.

    Us putting it out there gives the A LICENSE, and a sense of OK'NESS with doing so.

    Just like the word "HOE", I havent' heard SO MANY WHITE PEOPLE use the word in MY LIFE.

    FORGET "WHORE", THEY SAY "HOE" KNOW

    Thanks to BLACK AMERICA, we use the MOST DEMEANING WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, THINKING IT'S OD.

    I would PAY BIG MONEY, to hear someone call you a "NIG*GER" to your face and you act like it DOESN'T MATTER.

    Not long ago Timberland went to Germany and got into an altercation because someone called him a "NIG*GER".

    Where SO CLUELESS, AND SAD, we REALLY THINK WE CAN PLAY WITH SOCIETY, and give them DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE WORD.

    AND TELL THEM WHAT TO DO? RETARDS

    PLEASE

    WE DO NOT THINK, WE REACT BASED ON EMOTION.

    And it makes us seem UNINTELLIGENT.

    PERIOD.
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    Nubian_Huntress
    @ Antidumb

    "We have HANDED THE WORD NIG*GER TO SOCIETY."

    Actually, they gave the word to us and WE ran with it. Before, when discrimination were overt and commonplace, it was understandable why that word carried so much weight. But now, we are the ones giving the word power and continue to give it power everytime we react to it.

    I liked the example that you used with Jill Scott, but I think it actually negated your point. The very fact that she laughed in their faces and confronted them was her way of saying "that word has NO power over me and I won't let it define me." More of us need to take this approach when faced with this word, instead of the usual outrage. Because at the end of the day, our getting upset and protesting only gives others more reason to say it.

    I don't know about Nas, but I do agree that we need to start facing this word head on and INTELLIGENTLY. Getting upset and calling Jesse Jackson isn't going to change a thing. Their like bullies, they use the word because they know it will get a rise out of us every time. Perhaps if we did reclaim this word, examine it and really determine why we continue to let it affect us in the manner that it does, we might actually make some headway in wiping it from our vocabulary. Instead, we'll just sound the ni@@er alarms everytime to racist says it, hold a press conference and then forget about until the next bastard uses it. (I'm tired of the cycle and Al Sharpton is running out of spaces on his @$$ to kiss.)

    And you know what, I have had someone call me a ni@@er and while it was disconcerting (especially because I was younger), I didn't let it scar me. My family hails from Klan Country, so none of this is new. But for me to get upset would give off the impression that 1) you're somehow right and I am a ni@@er (because I only get upset when someone touches on a truth I'm not ready to handle) and 2) that what they had to say somehow impacted my life. I don't give two phucks what someone has to SAY about me as long as you don't infringe on my way of living. Threaten my family, it's on. Bar me from equal employment, we have a problem. But resort to some antiquated racial slur that morons use because they can't think of a better way to hurt me, not my problem. Their ignorance is just that, their ignorance and I refuse to let it have any bearing on my life.
     
    sosincere
    I tried to be nice but YOU ARE THE RETARD!!!!!!!
    yOU JUST SAID.....

    "It WON'T WORK, because it will ALWAYS BE USED AS A TOOL, WHEN THE PERSON IS ANGERED."

    Nas is saying..... WE NEED TO STOP BEING ANGERED BY THIS WORD!!! IT CAN'T EFFECT US IF WE STOP EVEN GIVING IT ATTENTION. IF WE DONT GET UPSET THEN HOW CAN IT HARM US!!!! We look like bigger ass's when we get all rah rah over Imus and stupidity like that. I could care LESS if a cracka call me a ni$$a cause Im probably calling them a CRACKA like I just did! We are over emotional as a people. You have stated that. So how then do you justify being so emotionally charged about this man naming this album this when his INTENT IS CLEAR AS DAY!!!!! EMOTION GOT YOU JUDJING THIS MANS ALBUM BEFORE YOU HEARD ONE VERSE!!!!!!!!He has a stated logic behind it but you want to push logic to the side and just say ITS A HURTFUL POWERFUL WORD SO WHY USE IT...SHAME ON HIM!!!!! You contradict yourself! it dont work just one way RETARD! If we are OVERLY emotional when white folks call us it don't you think we can be OVERLY emotional when it comes from a brother or sista? What Nas is saying is take the emotion out either way.then at least we won't be HYPOCRITICAL AND EMOTIONAL!
    Look Im done fooling with you. You have your head stuck up your own self rightous ass! You act like your Bill Cosby aproach is the only viable way to get a message across and it's not. So you live on the moon and I will try to do what I can here on earth. YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN THE HOOD CATS YOU ARE ALWAYS BASHING!!!! PLEASE KNOW THIS! You act ,like you are the last enlightened blackman on the planet. ELITIST SUCKA! You said "it makes us seem uninteligent".....to who? I think Nas and his stance is very pragmatic, very, calculated, and very intelligent. I bet it's a lot of folks who see that too. Maybe they arn't the folks you deal with but we are there. PEACE BE UNTO YOU THEO!
    P.S. My husband went to prison for 5 years on some street shyt. He got out ....got his degree (in accounting) and TALKS, MOVES AND THINKS JUST LIKE ANY OTHA BROTHA ON THE BLOCK! He does taxex at tax time but other than that he operates his own business and works with young men from our neighborhood. By first glance you would size him up I bet, but he is controlled, diciplined and STRONG! He works with nothing but young men nd got a following behind him so strong now I swear if he told them to help him blow up the white house they would do it. BUT hes a positive force in their life. He would not be able to reach the men he does if it wern't for his APPROACH! The fact that he works from the inside out and not shouting at them. My point........STOP TRYING TO PAINT ALL BLACK FOLKS WITH THAT ONE BIG ASS UNCIVILIZED BRUSH STROKE.
     
    sosincere
    last comment directed at antidumb
     
    sosincere
    @nubian hunstress....
    I think we were typing the same sentiments at the same time. I clicked submit and read what you wrote and thought I blanked out and wrote it...lol
     
    buckcherry02
    Nas the legend
    bless lyrical assasin!

    www.myspace.com/buckcherry02
    www.myspace.com/buckcherry02
     
    Antidumb
    @Nubian_Huntress
    @Soincere

    I can see the WEAKNESS THAT IS US THROUGH YOU.

    Nubian--I won't come at you HARD, because I think you truly try to THINK DEEPLY

    However, what are you saying?

    That someone like NAS, should start a movement in our race, where we should just SHRUG OUR SHOULDERS TO THIS WORD?

    Do we think this way because we are to WEAK FOR CHANGE? IT TAKES TO MUCH ENERGY?

    And if you read the JILL SCOTT story AGAIN, you will see that she was so OFFENDED, AND RAGED, that she FOLLOWED THEM, TO SCARE THEM, at the time am sure she was so shocked she didn't even know what she was doing.

    Is that the type of life you seek? And the life for our people?

    Because there is ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NO WAY, to take a NEGATIVE WORD LIKE NIG*GER AND MAKE IT POSITIVE.

    It was ok between each other, but now it's FEED TO THE WORLD.

    It's like taking the word "HOE" and making it a ok gesture.

    I WOULDN'T APPRECIATE IT, would YOU?

    DO YOU NOW, UNDERSTAND WHY WE SEEM PECULIAR TO OTHER RACES?

    How do you expect men like MY FATHER to deal with this? AGAIN YOUR THINKING but NOT DEEP ENOUGH.

    My father DOESN'T UNDERSTAND or CARE about HIP HOP, or NAS. He would be HURT.

    You think NAS CAN LEAD HIM TO ENLIGHTENMENT?

    My father struggled in his generation as did my grandfather to not FALL INTO THE NEGATIVE THAT SURROUNDS THIS WORD.

    You say your OK, with being called NIG*GER, by White people.

    Is that the case with EVERYONE? AGAIN NOT THINKING DEEPLY.

    What has happened in CURRENT EVENTS LATELY?

    Can you explain this reasoning to T.D. JAKES and other who don't look at NAS AS THEIR DISCIPLE?

    THINK DEEPLY

    God can do but so much, HE HAS REVEALED THE PAIN THAT COMES WITH THIS WORD? even when we don't want to feel it(JILL SCOTT)

    Again, though YOU MAY WANT TO, you CANNOT WIPE OUT THE PAIN OF THIS WORD, because NAS, in our YOUNG GENERATION SAYS YOU CAN.

    Is he really someone we SHOULD LISTEN TO. Have you ever seen him when he is not HIGH, which is an indication he likes to live in his OWN LITTLE WORLD.

    There is BLOOD on that word, and it will never be ok for it to be used.

    Sit back and close your eyes and invision yourself in different scenerios being called a NIG*GER.

    I don't care what you say you won't like it.

    It demeans you and MEANS SUB-HUMAN.

    YOU WILL REACT JUST LIKE JILL SCOTT, and want to make SOME POINT.

    Always LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE AND WHAT IS BEST.

    Even if you have your own personal FEELINGS.

    THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF A DEEP THINKER.
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    sosincere
    I wont even direct this at you because I know you cannot handle me! SO FOR ANYONE ELSE ON HERE WHO HAS A BRAIN .......
    MY PEOPLE......
    please understand that it is not the 40's 50' and 60's. The fight our fathers fought is NOT BROUGHT THE SAME. The mentalities of our fathers is NOT THE MENTALITIES OF THES YOUNGINS TODAY!

    antidumb......BABY, THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHERS FIGHT!!!!!!! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!!!! Your father did from what I can tell a good job at raising his son. I totally disagree with you on almost everything but you are strong willed and obviously have convictions that you stand upon! But if you continue to try to fight this current fight with your father in mind you will be missing the generation that needs you now who flat out don't know nor care what your father went through! We are a overly emotional people but we are also a anti progressive thinking people. Why do we KEEP hanging on to the 60's and figures from that era. If the "leader don't fit that text book "black leader" stereotype....the marches, the speeches, the oration, the holding hnds and singing songs.....we don't want to call them leaders. NAS IN HIS OWN RIGHT IS VERY MUCH A LEADER! Why is he not? If his words effect change in a segment of the population why is he not one then? So what your dad don't care about hip hop or Nas. A MILLION LIL BLACK KIDS IN INNER CITY SCHOOLS DO SO WHY NOT USE THIER OWN VEHICLE TO REACH THEM INSTEAD OF TRYING TO REINVENT THE WHEEL!!! Again you suffer from tunnel vision. You need to get out that "old negro spiritual" box you are in. Its beautiful to remember the past...but it's counterproductive to live in it!
    and how do you have the audacity to tell someone HOW THEY ARE GOING TO REACT. If I said it don't effect me then it don't effect me! I am a good a grown woman.I am quite in controll over my emotions. Emotion is not an invoulentary response. People have COMPLETE AND UTTER CONTROLL OVER THEM! If I have told myself what my perception of the word is TO ME then it in turn becomes MY REALITY....not yours or anyone elses.YOU irk me more than a racist white man ever could! I swear! And Im through with you!
    p.s. I said the same thing nubian huntress said only I curse....alot. Again, you claim to be such a deep thinker but you appear to be very surface level to me!
     
    sosincere
    antidumb....God can do but so much, HE HAS REVEALED THE PAIN THAT COMES WITH THIS WORD? even when we don't want to feel it(JILL SCOTT)

    Im sorry boo.....MY god does not give me the spirit of fear, or hurt. (every other sunday...again) Sunday school 101 teaches that fear, pain, hurt, and misery are all human constructs and if you just believe in him then count ALL things joy. (not all things except the word ni$$a). I refse to believe that God gets extra irked at the word ni$$A! Get your faith right son. Words should slip off you like water off a ducks back!

    Again, though YOU MAY WANT TO, you CANNOT WIPE OUT THE PAIN OF THIS WORD, because NAS, in our YOUNG GENERATION SAYS YOU CAN.
    .
    Nas and the younger generation don't say I can. GOD tells me all things are posible through him. If he can be the doctor in the surgery room then Im sure he can help me to become oblivious to the word NI$$a!
    aGAIN WE DON'T HAVE TO GO waaayyyyyy back from the begining of the word. It has hurtful origins and it will ALWAYS THE TRUTH. bUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS START FROM today AND SAY NO MORE. You hurt me before with that word, you got me bent if you think I am going to react to it NOW. god bless the child thats got it's own!!!!!
    AMEN SAINTS!!!!! ....LOL
     
    Nubian_Huntress
    Dammit! MTO just lost the long a$$ comment I wrote. So instead of trying to recreate the moment, I'm just going to say I co-sign with everything sosincere and leave it at that. (Stupid MTO, my response was like a freaking thesis and then it just disappears!)
     
    Antidumb
    @sosincere

    Oh Jesus!

    My fear is that your THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF, and HOW YOU YOU YOU YOU FEEL AND WOULD FEEL.

    LORDY LORDY

    Let's just say I THINK TO DEEP FOR THAT.

    AND END THIS.

    But DO think of me when you see "Black Baby Boomers" and others amongst us NOT FEEL AS YOU DO.

    AND WE MAKE HEADLINE AFTER HEADLINE.

    Your MAGIC WAND, cannot MAKE THIS ALL BETTER.

    Am I NOT AN EXAMPLE OF THAT?

    I WILL NOT, AND DO NOT WANT TO BE CALLED A NIG*GER

    Now go tell JILL SCOTT TO CALM DOWN DON'T FOLLOW PEOPLE, let it ROLL OFF HER SHOULDERS AND RELAX.

    This is like COMEDY CENTRAL FOR NARROW MINDS.

    I LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE ALWAYS.

    I will be DELIGHTED To see if your way WORKS.

    IT WON'T

    AND YOU WILL THINK OF ME.

    Soemtimes NEGATIVE IS NEGATIVE, you can't SUGARCOAT IT TO MAKE IT POSITIVE.

    PERIOD.
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    Are Our Ancestors Proud??
    Wouldnt_U_Wanna_Know
    @ ALL THE FOLKS on here debating over antics & judgments that still exist.. After sitting here reading everyones point of views, everyone has VALID points.. I'm able to see eye to eye with both SOSINCERE & ANTIDUMB...

    After snapping out of the zone I was in while reading all this, something just clicked n my head like a light bulb....

    I wonder do white people sit & debate over race & argue/disrespect/ridicule/demean each other over race.. NO! They stick together.. The swallow each others point of views on their prejudices & keep it moving.. Im starting to really feel like black people are more racist towards each other..

    Like SOSINCERE was saying, lets focus on the EMPOWERMENT of our people, stick together, not cut each other freakin throats over the crap. These days whites dont have to disrespect or hurtus, they sit back in shame with a grime laughing while we tear each other down on our own..

    People need to grasp that we all have different point of views. Take it for what its worth, store whats important & keep it moving.. STOP FIGHTING.

    I never leave comments, but I sit & read ANTIDUMBS comments & watch so many people get OVERLY offended & ANTIDUMB never admits if she/he was wrong &/or agrees to disagree.. Alot of time ANTIDUMBS knows his/her sh*t. But will not back down if someone objects... ANTIDUMB its ok, its just words.. Everyone will not understand u how ever much u try....

    Be Blessed..

    I refuse to sit on here & argue.. I have work to do.

    Love*
     
    jkellz
    lol ive been in a zone reading all of it also i couldnt quite grasps all of antidumb's point it was almost like they were just rambling with the same words in every post but anyway sosincere i mos def feel where you are comin from its a new generation new time we dont live by the same codes no more jus like we dont wear bellbottoms anymore kids back in the day had a reason to look up to people like martin luther king and malcolm x they where fighting a war that was on the surface nowadays things are deeper in society all the old heads are dying off a new leaders must rise up i promise u that the rap artist have way more pull on the youth of today then jesse jackson or al sharpton and its not that they dont respect its jus that they cant really relate to them no1 wants to hear jesse talk no1 wants to march on washington no1 wants to have sit-ins or boycotts its a different day and we have to realize as a whole how to reach our youth i think its great the Nas is stepping jus like David Banner, Chamillionaire and even old ass Master P stepped up im glad they have seen that they are who youngsters listen to



    and nobody wants to be called a ni@@er jus like no female wants to be called a B!t@h and no big person wants to be called fat so thats not a valid point antidumb the words are all meant to harm but ultimately how u percieve it
     
    Wouldnt_U_Wanna_Know
    @ jkellz.. i agree.. sosincere is speaking the real... antidumb seems like his/her soul purpose is to make (weak/narrow minded people) feel dumb.. Not cool at all.. Its been said alot & I'll say it again "god dont like ugly".. Antidumb claims he/she is so deep, well maybe u need to come to the surface.. welcome to earth! Ur not one to jugde or ridicule.. Why dont make invest & start a star gossip magazine.. U seem pretty into other folk business.. But hey, whatever tickles ur fancy..

    Love*
     
    Hellno
    Only in America!!

    This phrase above may sound like I'm ignorant but I'm from the Islands.

    Islanders don't go around calling each other N!**ers. Something is wrong with the American Generations today. Black Americans use to be a strong culture that many foreign cultures would look up to but this is pure ignorance. I took my time to learn about the American culture and glorifying that word is no way helping the cause and it won't change how the word was used in history. Whites will always use that word in the manner of hate for the black race. That's like taking the word "ignorant" and saying it's now cool to called ignorant, when we all know the english definition of the term. People need to wake up and realize that everything is about the dollar, not unity.
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    blackgyr30
    Well thats good timing....
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    Wouldnt_U_Wanna_Know
    Im at work & trying to type fast so i can get some work done.. So i missed a few words in my last post.. feel free to hate.. hope u can understand tho..
     
    travieboo7
    MTO YALL NEED TO STOP LYING...THIS IS MAD DISRESPECTFUL SERIOUSLY...
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    i‘M JuST sAYinG??
    Antidumb
    @jkellz
    @Hellno

    Your right you DON'T UNDERSTAND MY POST, and because they are VERY CLEAR.

    Unlike your ONE LONG PARAGRAPH OF RUN ON SENTENCES.

    Read it again, because I defientely will have to read yours a few times.

    At the end of the day you COMPREHEND what you want to.

    THAT'S WHAT I SUSPECT.

    "ok my hoe"----just a term of ENDERAMENT lol
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    Hellno

    Your SO RIGHT

    See we have LOWERED OUR STANDARDS AS A RACE in this GENERATION.

    And in order to COMFORT OURSELVES, and MAINTAIN OUR DIGNITY.

    We must act like CERTAIN THINGS ARE OK.

    IT WILL COME BACK TO BITE US MARK MY WORDS.

    Martin Luther King jr., Marcus Garvey, an Malcolm X, would ABSOULETLY DIE WITNESSING THE STATE WE ARE IN.

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    Are Our Ancestors Proud??
    Jae
    Don't buy it, Don't buy it.Shut Nas down by not buying his mess.
     
    jkellz
    listen bruh you can't say what you want about my typing skills, word usage and lack of punctuation marks but i promise you that if you and i was sent to a room of 500 people and told to lead yo ass would be in the audience whispering to closed ears while i was onstage proclaiming the truths of the world grow up man we talking bout nas and leaders and you talkin foolishness and yes since you wanna use terms its Ni@@as like you that dont need power with power comes responsibility and leadership abilities and the balls to do what others wouldn’t do along with the balls to say wat others won't say nas is breaking those walls down cause he is a leader dont buy the cd if you dont want it
     
    sosincere
    jkellz.......
    there is absolutly no need to even respond to antidumb. He is too in love with his own voice to see the truth. He never has anything REMOTELY constructive to say outside of calling ANIMALS AND WILD, AND IGNORANT. He definately cannot hang with logic! (you see he has yet to get back at me with a rebuttle to the double sided overemotional nature of our people in regards to the word...he tried to throw God in it and that didn't work either.) A few posts back on another topic where he was calling black peopee animals , someone asked him what does he plan to do about it and dude said he was going to write A BOOK called "black baby boomers"....lol. Waste of time. I told him I was sorry cause Bill Cosby already has the tough luv thing on lock. And he talking about Malcolm, and Marcus and they KEPT it on the streets...in the HOOD with the very people he calls animals. He talks alot but with NO SUBSTANCE. we need to not accept this...we need to rid the race of the animalistic nature that....no wonder why white folks hate us this....we are an embarassment that.....lol. HE IS A JOKE! He wouldn't even be that bad if he would just admit sometimes that others do make valid points!
    But on the productive end....all this fuss over this word is counterproductive anyway. While we are arguing... STILL...over the word ni$$A it's taking me 70$ to fill my tank, the economy is worth ish, and public eduacation is a joke. BIGGER FISH TO FRY! NAS IS THE TRUTH AND IM GLAD HE IS USING HIS SHINE TO MAKE A POINT....ANY POSITIVE POINT. Nuff said. Ya'll be blesssed.
     
    MONIQUEP
    IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR HIM TO DO THAT IT MAY GIVE HIM A BETTER CHANCE AT SELLING RECORDS.

    MYSPACE.COM/POODIE_N_ILLA
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    Monie911
    Have someone say an anti- jewish word, some [EXPLETIVE] pops off......the words may not mean much, the reality is some [EXPLETIVE] still exist in our communities, and I aint talking about the cool ones....

    Learn our history people!!! PLEASE......it's real in 2007 when people forget blacks still have problems.....ok, real ones, look at the jails, i bet the police say " lets jail a [EXPLETIVE]"...

    so how the [EXPLETIVE] are we removed from the reality of being [EXPLETIVE] in our own country then, I wake up, and I love me, but I REALIZE that there some messe up [EXPLETIVE] still happening to PEOPLE OF COLOR AFRICAN DESCENT!!!

    doesnt matter if you half black or mixed, or creole or carribean or african or whatever the [EXPLETIVE] you want to say, you got some african blood, u better recogize the game or you will be [EXPLETIVE] up and brainwashed....

    period
     
    mocha_frap
    @ everyone who gave such strong views...u all seemed to have passionate opinions and most of you made valid points. it is nothing wrong with a person that want to express themselves...i say keep it up!!
     
    Antidumb
    @sosincere

    Your all CONFUSED I guess I make your brain hurt.

    Because you KNOW WHAT AM SAYING IS TRUE.

    I can't wait to see what TRANSPIRES, and the turnout from all this.

    If, and it's a BIG if NAS's album comes out.

    Oh HOW WONDERFUL it will be to see A WAR ENSUE.

    It will FORCE US TO SELF-REFLECT.

    Society ALREADY is TIRED OF OUR TACTICS, tired of us FEEDING WORDS TO THE WORLD AND SAYING

    "don't you use them" lol "you can't say that"

    Your thinking about yourself, and acting as if the small communtiy of people who feel as you do, CAN LEAD THIS RACE.

    This is not POSSIBLE, you CANNOT CLEANSE THE WORD

    PERIOD.

    NAS IS GOING TO LEAD THIS MOVEMENT. lol, unbelievably FUNNY.

    Our communties are TOO WEAK, to-- one, lose focus by CONCENTRATING ON A WORD THAT SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE. It's OFFENSIVE PERIOD.

    And two I PROMISE YOU, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTROL THIS.

    Soincere

    You and those like you have a HARD task in front of you,(this is funny because you don't think)

    ** You will have to CONVINCE ALL BLACK PEOPLE
    "Don't get offended it's just a word" lol

    We sure do a good job of BANNING TOGETHER SO that should be easy for you. lol

    I mentioned this to my father he looked at me like I lost my DAMN MIND, he already understands that this generation is "the lost generation"

    ** Your going to have to give directions to White Poeple on HOW TO USE THE WORD. lol

    --Again am SURE NONE WOULD RESIST, and in the process they will MARVEL AT HOW WE WANT TO TAKE A WORD OUR ANCESTORS WERE ABUSED WITH AND MAKE IT INSIGNIFICANT and OK.

    That should go over very well, the fact that THERE WILL BE NO RESPECT FOR US, won't be evident. lol

    WE ARE A PECULIAR BUNCH, I TELL YOU

    And while ALL THIS IS HAPPENING, I hope NAS and KELIS can be the PILLAR OF THE COMMUNTIY THAT THEY ALWAYS ARE. lol

    I hope she DOESN'T GET ARRESTED for PICKING UP PROSTITUTES, and YELLING WHEN THEY REFUSE her advances.

    That would be sad, put am sure people won't say "THAT'S WHO YOUR LISTENING TOO".

    Let me make you laugh A LITTLE here's a video of a comedien who is PART OF THIS GENERATION, and how he feels and would DO IF SOMEONE CALLED HIM "NIG*GER"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKHtvTrEOCc&feature=related

    I would love to see how you would CONVINCE HIM DIFERENT.

    Just to think WONDERFUL NAS, hasn't been able to do CRAP FOR HIS BROTHERS SO FAR, but give them some music to LISTEN TO.

    His POSITIVITY and IMPACT SURE IS REFLECTED IN OUR COMMUNITIES.lol

    But we are giving him the LICENSE TO START SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

    PATHETIC.

    Nas is a WEAK BROTHER, though he means well SOMETIMES.

    He's ALWAYS HIGH, and look at how JAY, has passed him in LIFE, he had to go get a job from a man who slept with the mother of his child and had to bow his head to do so.

    BUT HAND HIM THE CAR AND KEYS TO DRIVE US IN ONE OF THE MOST SENSITIVE BURDENS WE HAVE ENDURED AS BLACK PEOPLE.

    I love stuff like this, you will SEE AM RIGHT .
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    Are Our Ancestors Proud??
    SoThenISaid
    OK if he really does release this album, especially in February, then self-respecting black people all across the country need to pull a Dixie Chicks burn (although that was wrong, Dixie Chicks were right!) on his album.

    Burn burn burn that sh.i.t!!!
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    Ban mental warfare with morons
    SoThenISaid
    Then again, that would require purchasing that garbage and I want that motherf)cker to be broke having made that CD.

    It can be a symbolic burn. Ironic burning something, but oh well.

    As far as I am concerned, Nas is a f)ckin' race traitor.
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    Ban mental warfare with morons
    aliceleng80
    u r so popular, what i want to say is that u r also very popular on a celebrities site sugarcupid.com. congradulations.
     
    Nubian_Huntress
    Antidumb, reading is fundamental. NO ONE said make it positive. But since you can't read between the lines, I'm not going to bash my head trying to explain any further. Continue to be the man's puppet and jump when he says jump. (Because that's what they're doing when the say the word ni@@er. They know you'll hop on up and down and give them all kinds of attention, which is what they want in the end. Notice the trend? Say ni@@a get a whole bunch of publicity, apologize, sweep it under the rug and resurrect your career stronger than it was before. Imus got a new contract and I wouldn't be shocked if Dog got a new show somewhere else. It's almost to the point that white folks who need attention know that all they have to do is drop the n-bomb. Need to boost your sagging ratings, drop the n-bomb. Want to get more listeners? Drop the n-bomb. Without thinking, you're actually ensuring their success. The more people hear about the latest ni@@er controversy, the more exposure they get. So keep up the good work, I'm certain Imus thanks you from the bottom of his heart.)

    You're a prime example that black people don't think beyond the end of our noses and a prime example of how we'll never get any further in the fight. Because we're still busy fighting words, instead of ideas. We aren't saying ignore the word, we're saying confront it head on. But we all know a lot of black folks are nothing but TALK, so that won't happen. Do I use the word? No. Do I think that it should be as prolific as it is in modern society? HELL NO. I taught children who didn't know the difference between being black and being a ni@@er. They thought that sh!t was synonymous with each other. But that's just the reason why we need to actually confront this word. So that our children understand it's not cute to call one another that. And also so they understand, that while people may use it to belittle you and demean you, you are stronger than a word. Is Nas the best person to do this? Maybe not, but at least he's trying, instead of cowering in the back whimpering because someone called him a racial slur. It's a step towards actual thought and reflection. And while he may not be the best role model, he is on the youth's level. You need people who can relate to translate the struggle to the new generation. You can't do it from a top a pedestal, pointing fingers and laying blame. You've got to meet the new generation where they are and pull them up from there. Not look down your nose and tell them everything they're doing wrong.

    And please stop citing your family, like you all were the only ones who dealt with the cruelty of racism. As I said, we hail from Klan country. My grandfather had them breathing down his neck, but he did not let it control him or dictate how he was giving to live his life or raise his family. When one of those redneck showed up at HIS DOOR calling him out and calling him a ni@@er, he didn't fuss and fight. He didn't scream and shout and cry about how offended he was. He simply got his rifle and told the man to get off of his property. And while he may have been angered at the man's audacity to step foot on HIS land, he didn't get caught up on the WORD. But that's just my family and we were taught that nothing a man says from his lips has power over you.

    But at the same time, why aren't we attacking the IGNORANT rappers who say that crap every other word on their albums. If 50 made an album labeled "Lynch that Darkie Ni@@er and then Shake Your Ass in Da Club" folks would be flocking to buy that mess. But when someone is trying to start an honest dialog about it, when get in an uproar. You may not think Nas is the best person to do so, why not? He's in the right demographic to get the message that to the people who really need it. I don't agree with that mess about rules on how to use the word, but I do agree that we need to remove its power. But that will never happen as long as we keep lamenting and letting it control us. Maybe then, we can let it go from our language all together.
     
    Nubian_Huntress
    Ignore that last paragraph, I thought I deleted it.
     
    Antidumb

    Maybe you should learn to explain yourself with CLARITY, that begins with BREAKING UP YOUR PARAGRAPHS.

    Because HONESTLY I DID SCAN your previous post they make my eyes hurt, so sorry if I missed something.

    NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT I WAS ADDRESSING
    SOINCERE, NOT YOU, in my last post.
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    In any case:

    You Said--Continue to be the man's puppet and jump when he says jump.

    ---What does that mean I think, am portraying the OPPOSITE. I have standards and this word should NOT be used. It seems as if your actually falling into being a PUPPET, by saying since people are going to use the word let's not let it GET TO US.

    That's a SUBMISSIVE approach not GOOD. Look at this video which I love of how PRIDE WORKS. Richard Pryor taking a job as a JANITOR, but you WILL STILL RESPECT HIM.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ab8_1186103822

    How would you have acted? Because judging by what you've said in previous post, "YOU WOULDN'T LET IT GET TO YOU". -----PLEEEEZ.

    Am not a PHYSICAL FIGHTER, but I DO SPEAK UP, I fight with my WORDS.
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    And am SORRY TO BOX YOU IN A CORNER, because I know sometimes people just talk to talk, they are NOT REALLY THINKING, it just SOUNDS GOOD.

    And when it comes to CELEBRITIES, they may like them for whatever reason. Like my cousin like's NAS because he's CUTE, though she would NEVER DISPUTE, that what am saying is the truth.

    Using your INTELLIGENCE, what exactly or what would be an EXAMPLE OF HOW NAS WILL HELP US?

    What about the word NIG*GER don't we know?

    How will he ENLIGHTEN THE COMMUNITY with a whole album about the word?

    It's an OFFENSIVE WORD PERIOD, what would the DISCUSSION BE about?

    Just like "honky", "bit*ch", "fagg*t", "homo". They are offensive words used to DESCRIBE A GROUP OF PEOPLE.

    WE ALL KNOW THAT.

    SO HOW WILL NAS ENLIGTEN US? COMICAL

    We are the ones that brought it MAINSTREAM by HIGHLIGHTING IT, now EVERYONE, Black baby Boomers, White people everyone has to now STOP TAKE THE TIME TO DISCUSS A WORD.

    That should not be an ISSUE. It's offensive PERIOD.

    SEE HOW WE ARE PAINS IN THE ASSES in this GENERATION.
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    NO, NO, this is a PUBLICITY STUNT, BY A HUNGRY BROTHER WHO LOST HIS SOUL YEARS AGO. He and his wife NEED MONEY.

    I know this because if he had OPTIONS, and SELF PRIDE he would have NEVER WENT TO GO WORK FOR JAY Z.

    DON'T BUY INTO IT Yes he's CREATING PUIBLICITY and That's what he wants.

    I WON'T BE BUYING HIS CRAP. He'll SMOKE IT UP ANYWAY.
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    Are Our Ancestors Proud??
    Nubian_Huntress
    First, I'm not going to attack you because I address ideas, not individuals. Let's agree to disagree and call it a day. You're definitely not going to change my mind and I don't particularly care if I change yours. I could address your points but you'd have counterpoints and we could go back and forth all day on this, and at last check neither of our jobs pay us to talk on the net. And you mentioning fighting, who's fighting? We're all free to express our opinions and others are free to disagree with them, that doesn't mean you have beef with the person. Why are you taking everything others say as a personal attack? Step back and breathe.
     
    sosincere
    antidumb....
    you are unbelievable.......Im am though with you. Because INSTEAD of commenting on what is laid out in fromnt of you you choose to add all kinds of othe epitaphs to back up what you say. Until you can give me a sound rebuttle to ANYPOINT I have made I am through talking with you. You are a complete waste of my time. You went RIGHT BACK AND ASKED YOUR FATHER...DIDNT WE ALREADY ADDRESS THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOUR DADDY! TAKE YOUR DUMB ASS TO THE BLOCK AND ASK SOME OF THOSE KIDS...LAME! THE BATTLE DOES NOT STEM FROM YOUR PARENTS HOUSE...THERE ARE MANY AVENUES, MANY BATTLEGROUNDS, AND YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY CLUELESS TO LIFE PAST YOUR SHELTERED UPBRINGING. GROW THE F' UP MAMMAS BOY AND REALIZE THAT THERE IS A BIG BLACK WORLD OUTHERE AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN SOME UPITY ASS HOUSE NI$$A LIKE YOU TALKING FROM SUBURBIA(WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR FOR DAMN SURE MENTALLY) TO EFFECT SOME TYPE OF CHANGE. You know nothing except what it seems that FOX and all other media outlets feed you about your own people. Go write your corny ass book that gangstas won't read and let others deal with them. You said I don
    t fight with my fists ...I fight with words. Well hows that going for you or any of us? You cited Malcolm, Martin and Marcus i one of your posts.
    THEY ALL FOUGHT WITH ACTION NOT JUST WORDS! THEY MADE SPEECHES BUT THEY HIT THE PAVEMENT TO BACK IT UP.

    "Your thinking about yourself, and acting as if the small communtiy of people who feel as you do, CAN LEAD THIS RACE.

    This is not POSSIBLE, you CANNOT CLEANSE THE WORD"


    THOSE SILLY WORD FROM YOU RIGHT THERE IS WHAT LETS ME KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CLAWN ASS HOUSE NEGRO. tHE CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT STARTED OUT AS small community of people. the black panthers were a small community of people. all activism starts grass roots which is a small group of people! So you believe that your book calling your sistas and brothas animals will efectively get the job done.? Ask Bill how he's doing with that? All he has done is stir up dialouge and controversy which isn't neccessarily a bad thing because it gets people talking. BUT it still fosters division and dis unity. ALL NAS IS TRYING TO DO IS STIR UP DIALOUGE WITHIN A POPULATION THAT IS NOT GIVING A RATS ASS ABOUT BILL OR HIS BOOK. Its funny how you keep on throwing that dead f'n point about we trying to dictate the usage of the word as if ANYONE ever said that! So what basis does that have in this discussion. AND since that is the premise to your whole argument I will declare this a victory...because you are so pathetic you make me lausgh...lol. I would deal with every brother in the prison population over you. ...lol. Until you can tell me ONE...ONE concrete thing you have ever doneto effect a change fall the f' back. You are like a hot breeze. Alot of breath being wasted with talk. I gaurentee Nas has effected more people than YOU EVER HAVE! Put up or shut up.
    p.s...Dummy conscious music NEVER SELLS. iF HE WAS REALLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK HE'D DO THE WHOLE SHORTY SHAKE YOUR ASS THING. HE IS DOING THE TYPE OF MUSIC HE ALWAYS....ALWAYS DOES. Do you have a copy of his last album? If not again STFU! I hate when people try to speak intelligently about something they know little about? And Bob Marley smoked weed and he was one of the greatest not just musicians but PEOPLE...ACTIVISTS in history. But house ni$$as like you draw out the negative to discredit the positive! You are truely a pawn for the white man and you don't even know it....lol Sambo! No wonder kids don't respect brothers like you! Again Martin Luther King was a Adulter.....was he not. What you got to say about that! But he wears suits and spoke beautifully and fit that mold so HE IS A TRUE LEADER!!!!! gET OUT OF HERE....YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL LAME! No need to respond back with another one of your baseless...."YOU AND YOUR CREW WANT TO TELL WHIT PEOPLE HOW TO USE THE WORD...LOL NO WONDER WHY THEY DON'T RESPECT US!" ...drawn out paragraphs. Heard it before. White folks are going to try to hurt our feelings as long as racisnm still exsits. But I have the power like with anything else in my life to decide if it hurts me or not. Sorry you seem to think that we as a people are not strong enough to have controll over our emotions. Too bad Jill, you and your dad and anyone else have not grasped that yet. I bet my daughter has! Call her a ni$$a and she immediately says My name is N'dea and it means beauty. The same way you call her India (which is a mispronunciation of her name). She handles them the same and don't break stride doing it. She went to an all white school so best believe I had to have that talk with her at age 5! GOD BLESS THE CHILD THAT HAS IT'S OWN!

    My grandmother told me long ago to never argue with fools because people cannot tell who is who! I am going to leave it at that. PEACE BE UNTO YOU REGARDLESS AND MANY BLESSINGS!
     
    Antidumb
    @sosincere

    I find this interesting

    And I've stated before I save these comments for my work, am in the process of writing a book

    So let's see

    YOU SAID----You went RIGHT BACK AND ASKED YOUR FATHER...DIDNT WE ALREADY ADDRESS THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOUR DADDY! TAKE YOUR DUMB ASS TO THE BLOCK AND ASK SOME OF THOSE KIDS

    ---What exactly will I ask these kids, or better yet WHAT WOULD YOU ASK THEM? OR TELL THEM?
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN SOME UPITY ASS HOUSE NI$$A LIKE YOU TALKING FROM SUBURBIA(WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR FOR DAMN SURE MENTALLY) TO EFFECT SOME TYPE OF CHANGE.

    ---Where did you COME TO THIS CONCLUSION?

    Am from the "Boogie Down Bronx" Darling lol, this is so funny

    So where did you come to the conclusion am an "UPPIDTY NEGRO" lol

    I love that approach simply because what your saying is that am articulate, and I don't seem HOOD ENOUGH----------WHICH IS ACTUALLY A COMPLIMENT---THANK YOU

    I get that a lot from Ghetto People
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    I have CUT AND COPIED the words from your post under YOU SAID, they have not be altered or SPELL CHECKED.
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    YOU SAID----Go write your corny ass book that gangstas won't read and let others deal with them.

    ---This is close to the truth, because my book is not for GANGSTA'S you take the ENERGY TO DEAL WITH THEM.

    My book is a tool to show how the mentality of these GANGSTA'S DOES NOT WORK, it will be a tool to MAKE FUN OF STUPID MENTALITIES, and for "Black Baby Boomers, to understand how OUR MENTALITIES HAVE CHANGE. How money comes first in this GENERATION.
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    YOU SAID----You are like a hot breeze. Alot of breath being wasted with talk. I gaurentee Nas has effected more people than YOU EVER HAVE! Put up or shut up.

    --How EXACTLY, (because of watched his career DEGRESS not PROGRESS), has Nas been IMPACTFUL TO HIS BROTHERS.

    Or does he play YO-YO depending on What audience he wants to appeal to?
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID---- small community of people. the black panthers were a small community of people. all activism starts grass roots which is a small group of people! ]

    --How did things work out with the BLACK PANTHERS?
    Though I respect their sense of PRIDE

    Weren't they BLINDED BY EMOTION and NOT THINKING LONG TERM AND DEEPLY, so they PERISHED?
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----I fight with words. Well hows that going for you or any of us? You cited Malcolm, Martin and Marcus i one of your posts.
    THEY ALL FOUGHT WITH ACTION NOT JUST WORDS! THEY MADE SPEECHES BUT THEY HIT THE PAVEMENT TO BACK IT UP.

    ---That's just my style, SPEAK THE TRUTH, whether I give SEMINARS, and SPEECHES to the community amongst other things. These leaders did just that.

    The problem with THIS GENERATION, is unlike when they where hear THERE IS NO UNITY, because MONEY IS THE DEMON THAT SEPERATES US.

    Go tell you GANGSTA BROTHERS on the corner, to STOP MAKING 1,000'S everyday. lol

    So in this generation you have to break down SO MUCH MORE, MENTALITIES, ESCAPISM, DENIAL, UN WILLINGNESS TO FOCUS.

    Sounds like a TOUGH TASK DOESN'T IT?

    In the past Black people where OPPRESSED TOGETHER, they had to fight to have BASIC RIGHTS.

    NOw within the SAME NEIGHBORHOOD, like I said am from the BOOGIE DOWN, some people will succeed SOME WON'T. All because of DIFFERENT MINDSETS, AND MENTALITIES.

    Taking the EASY WAY(by skipping steps) or understanding HARD WORK, and focus sets you free.

    DIFFERENT BALLGAME DARLING--Where playing a WHOLE DIFFERENT GAME THAN IN THE PAST.
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----THOSE SILLY WORD FROM YOU RIGHT THERE IS WHAT LETS ME KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CLAWN ASS HOUSE NEGRO. tHE CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT STARTED OUT AS small community of people. the black

    --Don't dare bring up a MOVEMENT SURROUNDED BY POSITIVITY.

    You are talking about the N word, and you are so UNFOCUSED, you probably don't know what direction your going with this.

    You think if you were to TRY TO ADDRESS THE N WORD, back in the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, people would STAND BY YOU? You have NO RIGHT, to bring such a movement up pertaining to this topic.

    This is too funny, but I know am getting you to THINK, because your not.
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----So you believe that your book calling your sistas and brothas animals will efectively get the job done.? Ask Bill how he's doing with that? All he has done is stir up dialouge and controversy which isn't neccessarily a bad thing because it gets people talking.

    ---Bill seems to be doing VERY WELL, in fact HE'S HIGHLY RESPECTED.

    All Nas is doing is STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY?

    Doesn't my book sound CONTROVERSAL, and will have a wonderful message, to free the OPPRESSED MIND.
    There is FOCUS and meaning to my book, people still don't know what the hell NAS is talking about, even so called rappers that know him, there like "hmm!, I don't know brother.

    THat's because they know there is NO REAL PURPOSE, and know him as a person. THis is just like the JESUS ON THE CROSS STUNT.

    By the way how did that STUNT CHANGE YOUR LIFE? and the community? lol
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----ALL NAS IS TRYING TO DO IS STIR UP DIALOUGE WITHIN A POPULATION THAT IS NOT GIVING A RATS ASS ABOUT BILL OR HIS BOOK.

    ---Have you read Bill Cosby's book? Even if you haven't give me an EXAMPLE OF WHAT MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE ABOUT IT?

    Or are you SIMPLY EMBARRASSED that he brings up topics WE WANT TO KEEP HIDDEN WITHIN THE COMMUNITY? I would say that is it.
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----Its funny how you keep on throwing that dead f'n point about we trying to dictate the usage of the word as if ANYONE ever said that!

    ---So what ARE YOU SAYING EXACTLY? Because I don't think you EVEN KNOW. lol

    Whay will we be discussing a word that should be of NO DISCUSSION it's OFFENSIVE PERIOD, should gay people discuss how "fa*ggot" shouldn't be a word to get offended by?
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    YOU SAID----p.s...Dummy conscious music NEVER SELLS. iF HE WAS REALLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK HE'D DO THE WHOLE SHORTY SHAKE YOUR ASS THING. HE IS DOING THE TYPE OF MUSIC HE ALWAYS....ALWAYS DOES.

    ---NOPE, Nas is "flim flamsy", he does things based on his mood, and how much money he would like to make.

    Give me a song title let me look up the LYRICS, something am doing for my book ANYWAY, just curious. Because though my cousin loves him because HE'S SO CUTE, I've only heard the songs thhe plays on the radio.

    And let me tell you sista Does he even RESPECT YOU? lol
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----And Bob Marley smoked weed and he was one of the greatest not just musicians but PEOPLE...ACTIVISTS in history.

    ---I ABSOULUTELY LOVE BOB MARLEY

    He was CONSISTANT, and NEVER PUT DOWN HIS SISTERS, I love his style and he is EMBRACED BY THE WORLD, not just people looking for a STREET STORY so they don't sound ALONE and feel they have a voice in their NEGATIVITY.

    THAT'S WHAT RAPPERS ARE AND DO.
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----You are truely a pawn for the white man and you don't even know it....lol Sambo

    ---Can you even explain that in DETAIL, or are you just telling yourself that to feel better?

    How EXACTLY am I a PAWN, how do I work in the WHITE MAN'S FAVOR? lol
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----Again Martin Luther King was a Adulter.....was he not. What you got to say about that! But he wears suits and spoke beautifully and fit that mold so HE IS A TRUE LEADER!!!!! gET OUT OF HERE....YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL LAME!

    ----Was he, I've heard rumors, if so WHO CARES, your DADDY MIGHT BE ONE TOO.

    Does that mean he didn't LEAD THIS RACE IN A POSITIVE WAY.

    Or was he a RELATIONSHIP COUNSELOR and YOUR APPALLED? lol

    Did he get caught up in Negativity in the Streets, did he LEAD HIS BROTHERS TO JAIL, with STUPID MENTALITIES?

    YOUR TRAILING OFF SISTER, TRAILING OFF
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----White folks are going to try to hurt our feelings as long as racisnm still exsits. But I have the power like with anything else in my life to decide if it hurts me or not.

    ---Now are you SPEAKING ABOUT YOURSELF AGAIN?

    I told you that's not the QUALITIES OF A TRUE LEADER, and DEEP THINKER.

    Ask MANY people how they would react if they are called the N WORD.

    Does IGNORING IT make racism go away? Am confused on this one, just as CONFUSED as you seem to be.

    There will ALWAYS BE RACISM, many people you encounter might be racist, that's why it's important to have BOUNDARIES, because we ALL can be IGNORANT SOMETIMES, even BLACK PEOPLE.

    Could you go up to a white person and say "you HONKY" lol--Though it sounds like you would want to.
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID---- Sorry you seem to think that we as a people are not strong enough to have controll over our emotions. Too bad Jill, you and your dad and anyone else have not grasped that yet. I bet my daughter has! Call her a ni$$a and she immediately says My name is N'dea and it means beauty.

    ---So EVERY OTHER BLACK PERSON, is CLUELESS, but you and your DAUGHTER and SMALL VERY VERY VERY SMALL FOLLOWING?

    See let me explain this, because this is the COMPLEXITY OF THE SITUATION.

    You have TRAINED your daughter to take a blindeye to being called a N, however as I stated before many people would be offended because the word has too much pain attached to it, Now do you think people should just EXCEPT IT?

    At the same time I would say something SIMILAR to what your DAUGHTER would say, but I by no means want this word to become a NONCHALANT word.

    It's not a word OPEN FOR DISCUSSION, there is NO DISCUSSION, just like the MANY OTHER OFFENSIVE WORDS in our Society.

    No one thinks they should be discussed but Black People, DOESN'T THAT SEEM WEIRD.

    And offensive word is an offensive word, PERIOD.
    --------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    So as you can see I like to communicate with a DIRECT APPROACH, if you can do the same feel free to write me back.

    Don't forget these questions----you seem to have forgotten to DO SO. SARCASM

    Using your INTELLIGENCE, what exactly or what would be an EXAMPLE OF HOW NAS WILL HELP US?

    What about the word NIG*GER don't we know?

    How will he ENLIGHTEN THE COMMUNITY with a whole album about the word?

    It's an OFFENSIVE WORD PERIOD, what would the DISCUSSION BE about?

    But you MUST ANSWER the direct questions I've asked you, as I've ATTACKED ALL YOUR POINTS.

    THis can be FRUSTRATED, especially when you HAVEN'T THOUGHT THROUGH WHAT YOU ARE TELLING YOURSELF IS RIGHT.

    And that SOINCERE is what you have done.

    Feel FREE TO ASK ME POINT DIRECT QUESTIONS, THOUGH YOU CAN'T, because you haven't thought DEEPLY ENOUGH TO DO SO.

    I would be HAPPY TO OBLIGE THOUGH?

    You have spoken without THINKING DEEPLY.

    Since I DON'T EXPECT TO HEAR FROM YOU, MY POINTS ARE TOO TIGHT.

    TAKE CARE AND LEARN TO THINK DEEPLY, I do the above EXERCISE EVEN WHEN CHECKING MY OWN IDEAS.

    I take out a piece of paper and say NOW DOES THIS MAKE SENSE, What's the PROS, AND CONS, what would be the OUTCOME.

    DEEP THINKING IS A SKILL
      ---------------
    Are Our Ancestors Proud??
    Antidumb
    @sosincere

    --------------------------------------------------
    I have REVISED AND SPELLED CHECKED THE ABOVE POST FOR CLARITY--YOUR QUOTES HAVE NOT BEEN ALTERED WITH SPELL CHECK
    --------------------------------------------------
    @sosincere

    I find this interesting

    And I've stated before I save these comments for my work, am in the process of writing a book

    So let's see

    YOU SAID----You went RIGHT BACK AND ASKED YOUR FATHER...DIDNT WE ALREADY ADDRESS THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOUR DADDY! TAKE YOUR DUMB ASS TO THE BLOCK AND ASK SOME OF THOSE KIDS

    ---What exactly will I ask these kids, or better yet WHAT WOULD YOU ASK THEM? OR TELL THEM?
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN SOME UPITY ASS HOUSE NI$$A LIKE YOU TALKING FROM SUBURBIA(WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR FOR DAMN SURE MENTALLY) TO EFFECT SOME TYPE OF CHANGE.

    ---Where did you COME TO THIS CONCLUSION?

    Am from the "Boogie Down Bronx" Darling lol, this is so funny

    So where did you come to the conclusion am an "UPPIDTY NEGRO"? lol

    I love that approach simply because what your saying is that am articulate, and I don't seem HOOD ENOUGH----------WHICH IS ACTUALLY A COMPLIMENT---THANK YOU

    I get that a lot from Ghetto People
    -------------------------------------------------
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----Go write your corny ass book that gangstas won't read and let others deal with them.

    ---This is close to the truth, because my book is not for GANGSTA'S you take the ENERGY TO DEAL WITH THEM.

    My book is a tool to show how the mentality of these GANGSTA'S DOESN’T WORK, it will be a tool to MAKE FUN OF STUPID MENTALITIES, and for "Black Baby Boomers, to understand how OUR MENTALITIES HAVE CHANGED. How money comes first in this GENERATION.
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----You are like a hot breeze. Alot of breath being wasted with talk. I gaurentee Nas has effected more people than YOU EVER HAVE! Put up or shut up.

    --How EXACTLY, (because of watched his career REGRESS not PROGRESS), has Nas been IMPACTFUL TO HIS BROTHERS?

    Or does he play YO-YO depending on What audience he wants to appeal to?
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID---- small community of people. the black panthers were a small community of people. all activism starts grass roots which is a small group of people! ]

    --How did things work out with the BLACK PANTHERS?

    Though I respect their sense of PRIDE

    Weren't they BLINDED BY EMOTION and NOT THINKING LONG TERM AND DEEPLY, so they PERISHED?
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----I fight with words. Well hows that going for you or any of us? You cited Malcolm, Martin and Marcus i one of your posts.
    THEY ALL FOUGHT WITH ACTION NOT JUST WORDS! THEY MADE SPEECHES BUT THEY HIT THE PAVEMENT TO BACK IT UP.

    ---That's just my style, SPEAK THE TRUTH, whether I give SEMINARS, and SPEECHES to the community amongst other things. These past leaders did just that.

    The problem with THIS GENERATION, is unlike when they where here THERE IS NO UNITY, because MONEY IS THE DEMON THAT SEPERATES US.

    Go tell you GANGSTA BROTHERS on the corner, to STOP MAKING 1,000'S everyday. lol

    So in this generation you have to break down SO MUCH MORE; MENTALITIES, ESCAPISM, DENIAL, UNWILLINGNESS TO FOCUS.

    Sounds like a TOUGH TASK DOESN'T IT?

    In the past Black people where OPPRESSED TOGETHER, they had to fight to have BASIC RIGHTS.

    Now within the SAME NEIGHBORHOOD, (like I said am from the BOOGIE DOWN), some people will succeed SOME WON'T. All because of DIFFERENT MINDSETS, AND MENTALITIES.

    Taking the EASY WAY (by skipping steps) or understanding HARD WORK, and focus is what separates the community and sets some free.

    It’s a DIFFERENT BALLGAME DARLING--Where playing a WHOLE DIFFERENT GAME THAN IN THE PAST.
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----THOSE SILLY WORD FROM YOU RIGHT THERE IS WHAT LETS ME KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CLAWN ASS HOUSE NEGRO. tHE CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT STARTED OUT AS small community of people. the black

    --Don't dare bring up a MOVEMENT SURROUNDED BY POSITIVITY.

    You are talking about the N word, and you are so UNFOCUSED, you probably don't know what direction your going with this.

    You think if you were to TRY TO ADDRESS THE N WORD, back in the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, people would STAND BY YOU? You have NO RIGHT, to bring such a movement up pertaining to this topic.

    This is too funny, but I know am getting you to THINK, because your not.
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----So you believe that your book calling your sistas and brothas animals will efectively get the job done.? Ask Bill how he's doing with that? All he has done is stir up dialouge and controversy which isn't neccessarily a bad thing because it gets people talking.

    ---Bill seems to be doing VERY WELL, in fact HE'S HIGHLY RESPECTED.

    All Nas is doing is STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY?

    Doesn't my book sound CONTROVERSAL? and will have a wonderful message, to free the OPPRESSED MIND.

    There is FOCUS and meaning to my book, people still don't know what the hell NAS is talking about, even so called rappers that know him, there like "hmm!, I don't know about this brother.

    That's because they know there is NO REAL PURPOSE, and know him as a person. This is just like the JESUS ON THE CROSS STUNT.

    By the way how did that STUNT CHANGE YOUR LIFE? and the community? lol
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----ALL NAS IS TRYING TO DO IS STIR UP DIALOUGE WITHIN A POPULATION THAT IS NOT GIVING A RATS ASS ABOUT BILL OR HIS BOOK.

    ---Have you read Bill Cosby's book? Even if you haven't give me an EXAMPLE OF WHAT MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE ABOUT IT?

    Or are you SIMPLY EMBARRASSED that he brings up topics WE WANT TO KEEP HIDDEN WITHIN THE COMMUNITY? I would say that is it.
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----Its funny how you keep on throwing that dead f'n point about we trying to dictate the usage of the word as if ANYONE ever said that!

    ---So what ARE YOU SAYING EXACTLY? Because I don't think you EVEN KNOW. lol

    Why will we be discussing a word that should be of NO DISCUSSION it's OFFENSIVE PERIOD, should gay people discuss how "fa*ggot" shouldn't be a word to get offended by?
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----p.s...Dummy conscious music NEVER SELLS. iF HE WAS REALLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK HE'D DO THE WHOLE SHORTY SHAKE YOUR ASS THING. HE IS DOING THE TYPE OF MUSIC HE ALWAYS....ALWAYS DOES.

    ---NOPE, Nas is "flim flamsy", he does things based on his mood, and how much money he would like to make.

    Give me a song title let me look up the LYRICS, something am doing for my book ANYWAY, just curious. Because though my cousin loves him because HE'S SO CUTE, I've only heard the songs they plays on the radio.

    And let me tell you sista Does he even RESPECT YOU? lol
    -------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----And Bob Marley smoked weed and he was one of the greatest not just musicians but PEOPLE...ACTIVISTS in history.

    ---I ABSOULUTELY LOVE BOB MARLEY

    He was CONSISTANT, and NEVER PUT DOWN HIS SISTERS, I love his style and he is EMBRACED BY THE WORLD, not just people looking for a STREET STORY so they don't feel ALONE and feel they have a voice in their NEGATIVITY.

    THAT'S WHAT RAPPERS ARE AND DO, THAT’S WHY THEY FOCUS ON STREET CREDIABLITY.
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----You are truely a pawn for the white man and you don't even know it....lol Sambo

    ---Can you even explain that in DETAIL, or are you just telling yourself that to feel better?

    How EXACTLY am I a PAWN, how do I work in the WHITE MAN'S FAVOR? lol
    --------------------------------------------------
    YOU SAID----Again Martin Luther King was a Adulter.....was he not. What you got to say about that! But he wears suits and spoke beautifully and fit that mold so HE IS A TRUE LEADER!!!!! gET OUT OF HERE....YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL LAME!

    ----Was he?

    I've heard rumors, if so WHO CARES, your DADDY MIGHT BE ONE TOO.

    Does that mean he didn't LEAD THIS RACE IN A POSITIVE WAY?

    Or was he a RELATIONSHIP COUNSELOR and YOUR APPALLED by his HYPOCRISY? lol

    Did he get caught up in Negativity in the Streets, did he LEAD HI