*gasp* The N-Word!

N.I.G.G.A.S.

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I’m not the one to use the word unless deemed “necessary”.

When I look at you as it slips slowly from my mouth

History flashes before my eyes, PAIN, BLOOD, TEARS

But we say it anyway, knowing what it means

Knowing how it feels to be judged by this

By skin, by color, be scent, by ancestry

There is no difference between an ending of –er or an –a

It all means the same DAMN thing

It still represents a chain of oppression, hurt, and inequality

Next time I blast my Wayne or quote my Common

I think about what it means when they say niggas

And I figured it out…

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