Is he referring to nigger or nigga? The usage of nigga has become very commonplace. I hear Caucasian, Asian and Latino kids say it at Rutgers. It makes me twitch when I hear it because I guess there is something strange about hearing people of races other than myself say it. I know some people who'll get confrontational about other races saying it but honestly I use the word a lot when speaking with my friends or just around the house but it's something that I've grown up with. I don't know anything about the backgrounds of kids of other races that use it, and maybe it was something that they were exposed to but I hate it when people try to use it to look cool or to fit in. In the wrong places or around the wrong people, attempting to be cool will get you fucked up real quickly. I really want to eliminate the word from my vocabulary or at least drastically reduce my usage of it.
It's conflicting. On the one hand, I think if you use a word enough and embrace it and give it new meaning, yes, it can rob the word of its original meaning which is what I feel has happened largely but not entirely with "nigga" but on the other hand I consider the suffering my ancestors and other people of my race have endured to not be called nigger or any its derivatives and I think no one should say this regardless of what spin you try to put on it.
*the twitter video wasn't available to watch for me but no, I don't think that's a word that should be present in any classroom or spewed from the mouth of any student or educator. In that place, it conveys a sense of ignorance and honestly, stupidity.
