Hail i idren
First , Zion I, i dont really overstand your reasoning. Perhaps im wrong but what is the problem with Negro ? If there is a different history to this word Negro that i am unaware of please enlighten i. As far as i know I come from a race of Negroid peoples as white people come from a Caucasoid race. Shouldnt white folks be referred to as caucasians ? When H.I.M Hail Selassie I said ,"until the colour of a mans skin," HE was speaking on Racism, that does not mean i shouldnt recognise my culture and heritage as a Black Man,as should white ,brown and all people should recognise their own. For the Earth is JahJah Garden and what is a garden with only one colour flower?
Second thing , coming to "Nigger" , is that i have always been a believer in that It is not what you do but how you do it and Its not what you say but how you say it. I have brethren who are not rasta around me all the time. Now, they know enough not to say this word to I or not to expect i to say it but they do so to each other. Now when they say "my nigga" to one another i man know that it is nothing but love that they have for eachother. And what can i have against that?
It dont matter NONE to i what the slavemasters intended what the word should mean because i recognise that in the minds of many Black youth the word has come to mean something similiar to the spirit of the "field nigger", the spirit of Rebellion, the spirit of Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman, the spirit of "By Any Means Nesessary"
Love to One and All
Rastafari the Iverliving
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