Trayvon Martin’s friend, Rachael Jeantel, she who was talking on the cell phone with him right before George Zimmerman murdered him… has caused quite a stir with her persona. 99% of black people absolutely understand every word, context, subtext, nuance and anything else the naysayer’s have to complain about her. Black people understand that black people come from ALL kinds of differences… and Rachael Jeantel represents the epitome of why people MUST get over themselves and realize that you have to listen with open ears and mind to EVERYBODY! Wars, and fights, begin because snotty arrogant intolerant people refuse to give other people a second listen if they do not understand them the first time!
I wrote the below poem in 2012! When Rachael Jeantel gave America a lesson in street language, and the race assassins out there began to shoot their arrows at her, I knew I had to repost this missive.
I am a 54 year old man who will fight ANY GODDAMN BODY who gets in my face and tells me what I have to do with my word NIGGER! Shut the fuck up, don’t you worry about me using that word and go on to the next subject! Just you remember this… if you are not American black, and you use that word in my presence… you MIGHT be assaulted! You would only use that word in my earshot because you WANT a confrontation… and you might get it!
WHO’S CONFUSED ABOUT WHO CAN SAY THE WORD NIGGER… NOT ME
I find it shocking that there are some black people,
And a lot of white people,
Commenting on the ‘use of this word’ story who seem to believe that...
Because some black people use the word Nigger (Nigga) among themselves,
Then it is OK for white people to use the word to describe black people.
That is absolutely patently twisted and absurd logic.
Hey, America at large…
White people of America!
Understand this piece of advice --
The upper majority of black Americans do not want white Americans calling them,
Or using, that word!
Period!
And, I dare to say,
As a 52 year old black man who can be radical when I am pushed to the racial edge,
I will declare this to the world --
MOST,
AND I MEAN MOST,
BLACK AMERICANS NEVER UTTER THE WORD NIGGER IN THEIR LIFE SPAN. Most black people find the very notion of that word offensive…
At the core of their souls.
And they do not use the word!
The media at large has always painted black Americans as all of one mind.
That is crazy talk.
Our opinions about everything vary greatly from person to person.
And the use of the word Nigger is also a dividing topic.
It is a small minority of black people who use that word.
Certain black entertainers in the music industry use the word.
Not all black music entertainers, mind you.
Certain black athletes will use the word.
Not all of them.
Same for actors, authors, carpenters, electricians, and everyone else!
Just because a few black people own and use that word,
That does not mean it is accepted by the black population at large!
And it is absolutely not acceptable for white people to use the word…
Under just about any circumstance.
There is a recent phenomena virus infecting some conservative,
Self hating and race hating blacks,
Who believe they must speak out to tell white America…
Go on and use the word Nigger --
You’re not affecting me by using that word!
Bullshit!
A black person giving white people…
A pass when they use the word Nigger in its derogatory term is disgraceful behavior. Shame on you for your out-of-touch with your race’s reality mentality…
And your obvious ignorance of the importance of self-respectability!
You, race self-hater, do not use the word… fine!
You giving a pass to the oppressors who created black on black hell on earth?
Shame on you!
But for black people who understand the history of the word Nigger?
But for black people who have suffered under the weight of American life?
But for people who have beaten on, spit at, bitten by police dogs…
Sprayed with water cannons, lynched, burned, branded, raped, enslaved…
Castrated, chained, force aborted, dragged to their death, drowned…
Whipped by bullwhip leather, curfew, disemboweled, amputated…
Ripped screaming from their mother’s arms, isolated and raped at will…
Starved, deprived of education, and Glossectomy sufferers…
To all the perversely black humans ground into nothingness in America --
What more profound thing would you expect a black man to want to own --
Other than the word --
NIGGER?
RLJ
4-8-12