Post★Boy

Just in case someone comes across this and decides to be "offended," the one thing I will reveal about myself is that I am technically a black mouse. I use "technically," because if you live in NYC you are basically whatever color the cops think you are, so all you brown-skinned folk best not assume you are safe because you are Indian or Dominican or something.

Po Po shoot first, ask questions, eh… whenever.

Anyway, I felt I needed to further diversify my ramblings and deal with stuff concerning race because, well — it deals with me.

Case in point; white people using the word "nigga" in front of me.

Yeah, you read correctly and if you need clarification then here is an example:

Not long after starting my job a coworker stopped by and as we were all chumming it up by reciting episodes of Chappelle’s Show, he dropped the "N-Bomb." This isn’t the first time this has happened, mostly because people do not mistake me for being black. They figure it is safe.

That’s cool, but black folk, ya’ll are fuckin’ up.

Used to be that white folk wouldn’t say that word in front of black folk for fear of getting this shit kicked out of them. I mean seriously, what do you think MLK and Malcom X were fighting for? Brothas and sistas fought hard against this contemptuous term to the point that you had earned free reign to smack the taste out of someones mouth for saying it, or at least cuss them out.

Even rap music (and record sales show that white people love themselves some rap) was not able to make this word popular enough in the Caucasian lexicon to where they would say it in front of us. It used to be, "I can say it. I can say it to other black people. You can’t say it. And maybe Puerto Ricans can say it, if they from the ghetto too."

Now I am watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David is uncomfortably confirming for some rapper that he is indeed "his nigga," and therein lies the problem…

Don’t call white people niggas. Are you crazy?

Some of my best friends are white and I never, ever have told them that they are in any shade of purple, my niggas. Doing so, insinuates that there is free-er usage of the n-word, though obviously not in a derogatory way. What’s more is that this agreement may extend past yourself and find it’s way into the company of other blacks who have not agreed to this pact.

Said black folk, may be very uncomfortable and even offended with their white people reciting episodes of The Boondocks verbatim or retelling your hood-credit affermation of friendship.

So for all you dumb ass niggas out there, if you love your white people spare them getting schooled, popped in the mouth or sent to HR and keep that term in house. It’s the kinda shit that wil make a dood give up 50 million dollars and go to Africa to sort himself out.