abolish the n-word, sisters and brothers

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I cannot say it beter than this. Please click and elevate. Understand the power of word. Feel your ancestors. Let them speak to you, and answer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-UpHlB9no

You might also want to join the battle to challenge and confront by going to abolishthenword.com.

Thank you, cousin Todd, for the YouTube link.

Love.

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  • § eisa718®   said on : 04/04/07 @ 10:16

    I think it’s important to remember that the relationship is symbiotic. People do say what they think and feel, but they also – and this is where it gets interesting – people also feel what they say. Words impact, reverberate, channel, burrow, bury themselves in our flesh, in our organs, in our soul. Word is power. Word is bond. In the beginning, there was the word. And challenging words, dismantling them, that powerful act of confrontation with spoken word, that changes everything else.

    Love, sister.

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  • § Brooke Stephens said on : 04/04/07 @ 14:19

    No, I agree with Jabari Asim in his book, The N Word. Yes, it’s ugly it’s heinous and horrible but it needs to still be in our lexicon to keep reminding us of how truly racist America is. Otherwise, all this soft-talking and “white” washing plays into the dumbing down of the country as which is becoming fashionable as a social pattern of behavior.

    Black folks used to have some standards of excellence and we were “better” than white people in our goals, ambitions and efforts for self-improvement. Now ignorance is a lifestyle choice. Yes, I think the young rappers are silly and disgusting for not being able to find anything else to demonstrate their “friendship and affection” for each other but then, hip-hop and rap are the outrage of the ignroant so what else can you expect from a group who choose to glorify their limited intellect and lack of ambition?

    The other aspect of this that no one is discussing is that the control issue for white people. We choose to use it within a context which they do not understand and we prohibit them from using it which is what it really is about for them. Power and control — How dare we choose to exercise such and put them out of (or in their) place on this. They started it as a means of denigration, now they should have to live with it and not control how and why it is used.

    Read the new book, GHETTONATION by Cora Daniels. She explains it very well.

    Brooke Stephens

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  • § eisa718®   said on : 04/04/07 @ 14:29

    Brooke –

    I have not read Cora’s book yet, though I intend to soon, but you have really given me something to think about with the issue of control. How powerful. I have to pick up Jabari’s new book, too. He’ll be at Hue Man Books in Harlem on April 10th, and I intend to be there. This issue of power and control over the word is something I’ll be thinking about, and probably be sharing with my Hunter students, for a while. Thanks for your comment!