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[***DISCLAIMER: The following words scattered about this post might offend the very sensibilities of all of you reading black folks. I will be using the word "nigga" both gratuitously and educationally and frankly, don't give a shit if you have a problem with it or not. If you find offense at the constant gratuitous and unneccessary use of the word "nigga" and feel that everybody who uses the word "nigga" is ignorant, well, kiss my ass, shut the fuck up, have a Coke and smile. You've been warned. I like being ignorant. ***]

“I’m a nigga, he’s a nigga, she’s a nigga, we some niggas, wouldn’t ya like to be a nigga too????”- Eazy-E of the group NWA, skit from EFIL4ZAGGIN

I’m one of the niggas that believes in other nigga’s causes. If you want to end world hunger, then I’m that nigga that has your back. End poverty?? Nigga…it’s game on. I’m also that nigga that wants to put other people onto causes that aren’t as popular yet. In essence, I believe in promoting causes that I believe in. Hence, today I’d like to introduce the world to a campaign I just found out about that clearly isn’t making the noise it should be making. I’m a nigga in the know so the fact that I hadn’t heard of it bothers me. So I’d like to introduce the world to the:

Ban the N-Word Campaign

Let me tell you how this nigga right here became acquainted with the Ban The N-Word Campaign. See, I run an under e-ground internet magazine entitled, We The Voices (which is coming back in August…woosah bitches, wooosah), in which I’m the HNIC AKA the Head Nigga In Charge. Well, myself as well as my co-editor are listed on the contact page and informed that any niggas can email us with anything. So we often get placed on random listserv’s much to the chagrin of us niggas.

Well, one day last week, my co-editor, the NMFIC AKA the Next MuhFucka In Charge, informs me that I should check my email. Lo and behold, a nigga finds an email from an organization entitled the Ban the N-Word Campaign. Well, the NMFIC kindly requested for them to remove We The Voices email addresses from their listserv which they said they’d do…but they wanted this nigga right here’s information. Me, the “HNIC”.

Now I couldn’t figure out why they would want my personal information and a mailing address. Maybe they wanted to send us niggas some pamphlets or something. Well, shortly thereafter we receive another email stating how they had JUST taken a look at the site and now understand the thought process of “We-The-Voices.” Apparently us niggas over at WTV thrive on calling ourselves “niggers, niggas, niggahs, niggaz”, even with the racist history of the word. The also informed us that WTV and BN-W clearly have very different outlooks!

Stop.

As a nigga that reads, it amazes me how many snap decisions people make without actually reading things they attempt to get involved in. One look over the site and any half educated nigga would realize that WTV uses language that speaks to us regular niggas. Basically, we talk about niggas a lot. If I was going to try to involve an organization or group into my campaign, and had plenty of information to peruse, I’d at least read the shit to determine if these niggas would be the kind of folks who would be on my side and push my cause further.

But that’s just a nigga like me.

Anyway, I was offended at their assertion that WTV and the Ban The N-Word Campaign had very different outlooks. I disagree. You see, much like the Ban The N-Word campagin, WTV is about upliftment, not just of niggas, but of people everywhere. I do, however, have some disagreements with their methods. For instance, I don’t believe that every nigga that uses the word nigga is ignorant. In fact, I know some very well educated niggas that use the word nigga frequently. They know full well what they’re saying when they’re saying it.

Other than that, I thought that I might have been able to get with these nigga’s cause.

Hmmm…let’s see?!?!?!

The Ban The N-Word Campaign hit our site up with numerous articles about the work that they’re doing to enlighten niggas everywhere about the use of the word nigga. Now since I’m introducing the cause to those niggas that don’t know about it, I thought I’d share some of their practices and methods for spreading the word. For instance, they monitor music and make recommendations about the music that has been released for niggas who, much like themselves, don’t like the word nigga. Here’s an excerpt from one of their mailers from 2004:

“Mario Winans, an R&B singer, uses it about 14 times on his album. Kanye West is trying to get into spreading social awareness, which we can appreciate, but his excessive use of the N-word makes you wonder how much he really knows about his history if he doesn’t know better than to use that word, so we can’t even give him an unconditional plug. Outkast’s Andre 3000 doesn’t use the N-word on his side of the two-set CD, but Big Boi goes for his. Just so you’re aware, usually along with the N-word usage, many also have the following language in excess: hoes, bitches, material things (cars, jewels, etc.), fu_king, smoking weed, drinking alcohol, and sniffing cocaine. One positive with some of the rap music is that the rappers/hip-hoppers don’t seem to be doing as much sampling. Some of the beats are funky or “slamming,” as the slang goes, but so what. If the lyrics overall aren’t saying much on top of using the N-word excessively, again, so what. We were told that you can purchase an instrumental version of all the songs, so if you love the beat that much consider doing that and then rapping or singing over it yourself.”

Now, I must say, it sounds a little judgemental to me. I’m not knocking these niggas campaign, and this is just a small excerpt from a list of theirs, however, it strikes me oddly that these niggas would assume that Kanye wouldn’t know much about his history because he uses the word nigga. Just because he uses the word that the niggas over at the Ban The N-Word Campaign don’t like doesn’t mean he’s ignorant. They don’t really know that nigga to make assumptions about his education for his use of the word nigga. Had they called him an asshole, maybe they’d have more leverage, but just because he uses the word nigga??

Nah.

I understand these niggas sentiments since they believe that any nigga that uses the word nigga is ignorant, however, I don’t happen to agree with them, since I for one use the word nigga from time to time. It just seems rather fuckin’ wrong to assume that niggas who use the word nigga are just wrong and ignorant. The fact that these “campaigners” have this much time to research and find everything wrong with people that use the word nigga and deem all those that use the word to be detrimental, ignorant, and just debasing to black culture just seems to be rather, well, fucked up and using of misguided energy. However, that’s these nigga’s thing. So I say fuck you to the Ban The N-Word Campaign.

But that’s neither here nor there.

I must say that though we at WTV believe in upliftment of niggas similar to the Ban The N-Word Campaign, this isn’t really a cause I can stand behind myself. Now why can’t I get behind it?? Well, these niggas came at my organization, WTV, sideways. I don’t cotton to well to folks coming at me, my compadres, or niggas sideways. The fact that they straight up spammed my email boxes with their propoganda BEFORE they realized that we weren’t exactly the kind of niggas they were lookin’ for is okay…shit happens. However, upon realizing it, there is no need to be condescending or jackassholish to niggas who aren’t on the EXACT same plane you’re on. I don’t like condescending organizations or niggas who feel like they are better than others because they are “enlightened” or some shit.

In fact, I can’t stand ANY motherucker who thinks that they’re the better niggas because they don’t use the word and try to beat me over the head with their rhetoric and shit JUST because they feel like it is right. Kiss my ass nigga. And there are a lot of niggas like that running around. Probably a few reading this shit right now. Many niggas determine that because they don’t use the word they should attempt to impress their gospel into every nigga they know that they’ve heard use the word. And frankly, to all you niggas like that and organizations like that, I humbly proffer…

…fuck you.

Most times I’d just rake them niggas over the coal and be done with it.

However…

…this time I felt the proper thing to do would be to enlighten other niggas with a cause they might be able to get behind and benefit from. Just because I think it’s shit based on their methods doesn’t mean others can’t get behind it. It’s only right since they work so hard to stop niggas from engaging in behaviors that are so detrimental to the upliftment of black people as a whole.

They need more exposure.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I implore you to discover more about the Ban The N-Word Campaign, a campaign intended to eradicate the word nigga from the lips, hearts, and minds of niggas everywhere.

And to the Ban The N-Word campaign…fuck you, BUT…

…y’all niggas do y’all thing.

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