Friday, February 01, 2008

'Can You Lend a Nigga a Pencil?'


This one comes from Mona Seimond and Alisa. Listening to this honors English teacher in Kentucky explain the difference between "ni**er" and "nigga" ranks right up there with Mitt Romney's rendition of "Who Let the Dogs Out?"

 

5 comments:

Unknown said...

OHHHHH - that pesky N-Word

C List said...

Sad to say that guy lives in my town. I don't think he is racist just uneducated and trying to be cool with kids. It had everyone in an unroar when it happened last year.

philly76 said...

Not ot defend the teacher on using the word, but I honestly believe he used it because he thought it was a "cool" word to use. I mean, we hear it so much when young people talk to each other, in the music we hear over the radio, in films we see, etc. So, I can see his point when he thought it was a slang word for "dude" or something like that. He was trying to look cool to his students, but that doesn't account for his naivety. He should have known better.

Joey said...

Tons of white kids in my Queens neighborhood call each other "nigga" and even "nigger", as some kind of goofy....cool slumming thing? They'll even say it to adults. "...that nigga right there.." pointing at the white friend.

Joey said...

P.S. : But then I've also heard certain scrappy white boys calling a buddy "my bitch" or "my wife". Ex.: Two boys at 3:00 am walking by my house, all happily triumphant and hyped up over a fistfight: "....you see how I stuck up for you, Johnny, so don't go telling people I ain't your wife no more...!" LOL. Honest to goodness.