I am nobody's nigger .

   We watched a rap video in class called "I am nobody's nigger." by Dean Atta This video features young rappers expressing their emotions towards the word "nigger" and how it is being used. They are frustrated at how people are mis treating the word now adays. People use the tearm "nigger" as slang when others take it offensively. Dean Atta expresses how the word "nigger" isn't a word you can just throw around like it's nothing because it does cause harm to others. Back in the day the word "nigger" was used as basically calling African Americans useless; it was used as a racist saying. Before African Americans got lynched, they would get tortured and taunted by the word "nigger". I think he is trying to say that they fought so long and hard for that word to be removed and yet people still use it like it's the word to say. Now teenagers and even adults use the word "nigger" and think nothing of it. Many people that "nigga" and "nigger" have two different meanings. They argue that "nigaa"is just used as slang, calling someone "homie" or "fool" but "nigger" is offensive. I see it as they are both the same word just because you change the wording doesn't make it okay to say! Dean Atta points out how African American rappers use the word "nigger" in their raps as if it was just another word; he thinks it's wrong because they are going against their own race because back then African Americans would suffer from the usage of that word. Using the word "nigger"is obviously not appropriate because it's affecting many people out there and causing problems.