On Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 2:43:27 PM UTC-4, Ironywaves wrote:
> Yeah, I notice blacks using "my nigga" and I suppose that this is going to
> eventually diffuse the slur, similarly to how I notice many gays using
> "queer", Native Americans using "indian" and poets with the word poet...
> poetry is not just academic sissies any more...
> Will
> "Chuck Lysaght" <chuck_...@poetic.com> wrote in message
> news:d633c9aa.0305...@posting.google.com...
> > "Ironywaves" <irony...@knology.net> wrote in message
> news:<vceep9j...@corp.supernews.com>...
> > > I stayed away from this poem because i strongly dislike the use of the
> word
> > > *nigger*--- living here in the deep south, I face the word practically
> every
> > > day--- but Chuck's poems is great and usefull, having known directly the
> era
> > > he writes of, my childhood was spent there... but I never *learned*
> that...
> > > it still exists, but--- it *is* better here these days.
> > > Will
> >
> > Despite what the idiot j r sherman may say, I wrote this poem. I
> > remember those days Will. It seems the word "nigga" is now used as a
> > term of endearment. I have a few black friends that sometimes say to
> > me, "What up nigga?"
> >
> > Thanks for your comments.
> > >
> > > "Riaz Ali" <ria...@lineone.net> wrote in message
> > > news:3ec6a...@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> > > >
> > > > "Chuck Lysaght" <chuck_...@poetic.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:d633c9aa.03051...@posting.google.com...
> > > > > no niggers
> > > > > is what one sign said
> > > > > as the first black student
> > > > > walked up the steps
> > > > > that rose above the crimson tide
> > > > > and the erect tongues of racial slurs
> > > > > now decades later...
> > > > > that black student
> > > > > is a published poet
> > > > > and is celebrating her
> > > > > 60th birthday
> > > >
> > > > This poem is bland and just an excuse to brag.
> > > >
> > > >

'Sup my nigger Will Dockery?