#negus vs. #niggaz

So, I was having a debate yesterday on Twitter about what word offends white people as much as the word NIGGER offends black people.  After reading some hilarious comments it became abundantly clear to me that we give way to much validity to words we have no real knowledge of.  Think about it, English is a bastard language, borrowed and stolen from the vaults of civilizations conquered , and colonized.  Over the years, the meanings and origins of our everyday vernacular are blurred and oft times, changed. A prime example would be the whole bad means good thing.  My point in the debate was the word Nigga has been changed and made fraternal for large groups of indigenous , and poor people.   If you are offended by the word today, then YOU are materializing the negative connotations associated with the word, not the ignorant nigga saying it. (evil smirk).  Needless to say i lost a couple of followers…oh well.

Then today, I received a tweet / video from sistah @wizdomselah that kind of summed up this bastard language / nigga argument, in a comical way.  I understand the historical and social scars that have been healing for a long time, get ripped open every time you hear a non-indigenous person say the word.  But lets be honest. . .we all got a white homie, we let slide saying Nigga , because you can vouch for his/her honest respect or experience dealing with black culture.  I like to refer to Tupac’s definition of the word, which he broke down into an acronym N.ever I.gnorant G.etting G.oals A.ccomplished.  or you can just think of us as NEGUS, the KINGS we truly are. . .”ahhh, My Negus” (in Denzel, Training Day voice)