Magazine to Rihanna: ‘We thought you people liked being called the N-word’
A Dutch magazine is catching heat for publishing an article calling Rihanna a “nigga bitch” — words the troubled singer has used to refer to herself in the past.
The Parlourmagazine.com article also stated that Rihanna was from Jamaica — an insult of the highest order to Barbadians who think they’re above Jamaicans.
Rihanna’s fans inundated the magazine’s office with emails, phone calls and online messages expressing their outrage. Rihanna, who was alerted to the magazine’s content by her Twitter followers, reacted with a series of angry tweets on her Twitter.com page.
“I hope u can read english, because your magazine is a poor representation of the evolution of human rights! I find you disrespectful and rather desperate!! You ran out of legit, civilized information to print!” she wrote on Twitter.
“There are 1000′s of Dutch girls who would love to be recognized for their contributions to your country, you could have given them an article. Instead, u paid to print one degrading an entire race! That’s your contribution to this world! To encourage segregation, to mislead the future leaders to act in the past! You put two words together, with the intent of abasement, that made no sense … ‘N—a Bitch’?!….Well with all respect, on behalf of my race, here are my two words for you … F— YOU!!!” Source
The magazine’s embarrassed editor took to Facebook to apologize profusely to the singer and her fans. Editor-in-chief, Eva Hoeke, wrote: “First: thanks for all your responses. We are of course very fed up over this and especially very shocked. However I’m glad that we’re engaging in a dialogue on this page — not everybody does that. Thanks for this. Other than that I can be brief about this: this should have never happened. Period.”
Hoeke also implied that the racist insults toward Rihanna were meant as a joke, especially since Rihanna, and blacks in general, use the most degrading terms when referring to ourselves.
“While the author meant no harm — the title of the article was intended as a joke — it was a bad joke, to say the least,” Hoeke wrote in a statement.
“And that slipped through my, the editor-in-chief’s, fingers. Stupid, painful and sucks for all concerned. The author has been addressed on it, and now I can only ensure that these terms will no longer end up in the magazine,” the statement continued.
“Furthermore I hope that you all believe there was absolutely no racist motive behind the choice of words. It was stupid, it was naive to think that this was an acceptable form of slang — you hear it all the time on tv and radio, then your idea of what is normal apparently shifts — but it was especially misguided: there was no malice behind it. We make our magazine with love, energy and enthusiasm, and it can sometimes happen that someone is out of line. And then you can only do one thing: apologize. And hope that others wish to accept it. From the bottom of my heart I say it again: we never intended to offend anyone. And I mean that.” Source
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nigga bish. really?
See this is exactly why people end up with muthafuggin pumpkin heads. How in the hell do you think that this chit is acceptable. These bastards knew what they were doing trying to stir up some controversy and that’s exactly what happened. RAT BASTARDS
Unfortunately, “we” call ourselves such degrading words that other people do think it’s ok to call us what we call ourselves… SMDH at Riri for calling herself such a sorry word and getting pissed because someone printed HER words… dumb bish
Sandra really with the lil boy in the tumblir.
<—- Me shaking my head.
HOW CAN A MAGAZINE PRINT THAT… WHO IS THE FUKN EDITOR? WHO APPROVED THIS CHIT?
<<RULES OF HUMANITY RESPECT!
I’m sure Rihanna will be blamed somehow even though this lady was wrong for that article.
I love how Rih will defend herself no matter what people have to say about her.
Anyway
Oh…….
Why are non of my words coming up???
Really tho! Rhi Rhi couldn’t have responded better! Classic.
OK IM OUTIE
<<back to the TO-mater fields!!
Is it ignant of me to state that back when I was just a lurker, not yet a member, I use to LIVE for seeing that little boy state “That’s Racist!”
Wheeeew, good times!
WOW! I don’t know what to say behind this….so I will just say WOW!
See black folk thats why the word needs to be stopped. Black folk let too many others in our our secrets and they turn around and use it against use. SMH
Well, honestly, they have a point!
If I was from another country I would also think that blacks like to be called bitches and niggas.
Hell listen to a rap song and count how many times you hear them refer to themselves and others as a “nigga”.
How many chicks call themselves “bad b*tches” “five star b*tches” etc? Trina has dubbed herself the “baddest b*tch”. How many time do we say “that’s a bad b*tch right there”?
This muthafuggin bytch azz magazine needs to be put the fukk out of business. Regardless to what they say she calls herself why would u publish that bullchit for others to read. Its funny how alot of other artists say things but they pick her out the bunch. Pick one of dem damn rappers so they can show up on your dooorstep and make you regret that you were even fukkin born morons.
That apology was a bunch of bullchit
<—doesnt use the n-bomb bc of shat like this
Is Jay going to start a hip hop war against smoking Dutchs now?
Auntie: The Parlourmagazine.com article also stated that Rihanna was from Jamaica — an insult of the highest order to Barbadians who think they’re above Jamaicans.
No Auntie its the Guyanese and Trinidadians who think that not us Bajans. Just would like to correct you there.. Love Msone!
Afternoon yall!
<—– Never knew that Rih Rih referred to herself as a nigga bish!
Auntie, can you point me in the direction that I can find that?
howmanylicks_07 says:
Is Jay going to start a hip hop war against smoking Dutchs now?
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Because one Black is all Blacks?
Im confused..
& i’m black & 1/2 black
The article was in poor taste and I dont care what country you are in, you know the history behind “nigga bitch”, nigga, bitch or ****. Well, I didnt know about their magazine before today so if thats what they were looking for, they got it. I wont read not ne’re article tho…..
@CD: Is that a fat, naked, shiny dude climbing a door?
If someone is visibly fat and you say it, its considered mean and hurtful. A derogatory term. Same with what they said.
Ion give a fugg what they say, but they should because they are in the business of selling their words.
Just because someone labels themselves a certain way..
(business) has to be professional.
Not sure how to feel since people let Fat Joe and JLo make it with using **** oh excuse me nigga…Did Em ever use it?
You people need to stop using the word then others wont think its ok.
I can bet money that they dont use faggot.
after an insurance adjuster has taken pics of your damamged vehicle how long should it be before you get a check?????
rozb says:
@CD: Is that a fat, naked, shiny dude climbing a door?
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@ Them Lips some companies will cut a check right then but others a couple weeks maybe
OutsidetheBox says:
If someone is visibly fat and you say it, its considered mean and hurtful. A derogatory term. Same with what they said.
Ion give a fugg what they say, but they should because they are in the business of selling their words.
Just because someone labels themselves a certain way.. (business) has to be professional.
^^^^^^
THIS Heyyy bew!
Naija check ur email pls
NaijaGal says:
Not sure how to feel since people let Fat Joe and JLo make it with using **** oh excuse me nigga…Did Em ever use it?
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Why yes Naija, he did…Remember the song about the black chick he us’ta date before he became famous?!
Everytime I see that boy yelling Thats Racist I bust out laughing lol
We call each other the N word but when somebody else say it its a problem?
probably a few weeks before u get a check for the car
if ur taking physical therapy, etc it might be longer to get that part
at least that’s how it happened with me
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
Is it ignant of me to state that back when I was just a lurker, not yet a member, I use to LIVE for seeing that little boy state “That’s Racist!”
Wheeeew, good times!
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That shait is funny…
rozbsays:
@CD: Is that a fat, naked, shiny dude climbing a door?
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Correct
but i was also going thru the other person’s insurance and my car was totaled
ALBoy says:
You people need to stop using the word then others wont think its ok.
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I hate the phrase “you people” as well….
mainly because it takes me back to my racist 3rd grade art teacher who referred to me as “you people” and I was the only black student in the entire school.
AL
I got a feelin I wont be gettin an early xmas gift then, they took a pic of my car yesterday and a pic of the dude’s car who hit mine today so I was hopin by the end of the week but considerin I’ve already had ‘word” with them…………………
sexyphillygirl says:
Everytime I see that boy yelling Thats Racist I bust out laughing lol
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SO DO I! AND ILL SCROLL BACK UP TO SEE IT AGAIN LOL
We as black people have got to do better. We continue to call each other the N word in our music, movies and in our conversations. Then other races see and hear this and think it’s acceptable. Then we get all flared up when they use it after being conditioned to it by listening to the things we produce. I am by no means saying what the magazine did is right. But I think we need to look at the bigger picture.
@HERSHEY
“Unfortunately, “we” call ourselves such degrading words that other people do think it’s ok to call us what we call ourselves… ”
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That’s complete bullchit. That’s the line that yt racists people use as an excuse to say that chit.
You don’t see people mocking Jewish traditions or Asian or Indian traditions and then claiming “well, they do it.”
Pure malarkey.
Supposedly the editor of that magazine has stepped down because of this mess she made Ms. Sandy. You may want to update!
Abasement :
To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem.
@Luscious have they accepted liability? They’ll only cut a check once they say ‘we’re responsible’
Candi my car was parked and I wasnt in it (i dont drive it)
@Tatted I don’t normally buy rap music so I never heard that song but that proves my point cause I don’t remember any uproar when he did it so
unfortunately this is how the world sees us ….. but this is how we see ourselves no????? she puzzy popping calling her self a bish and a nigga.. and she mad
@Naija
Em said it. Made a whole song about a black chick he supposedly dated that dumped him. He wasn’t as creative with metaphors when he went in on her either. Straight to nigga and bytch. Ol boy from the Source mag released it to try to discredit Em, but no one cared really. He also pulled the reverse racism card right before he did his recent comeback (Recovery + Relapse) when he did a freestyle dissing Jay-Z and Kanye, then retracted it and said he was high.
RHIANNA’S own boss has a record out called N-WORDS IN PARIS. He actually told Oprah in her magazine, that white people shouting out the N-word was a progressive thing.
These people invented the word. How are they supposed to stop if we don’t
NAIJA
dude left a message on my vm sayin he did it and I played the vm for the insurance company then he called them and told them he did it so they sent the adjuster out to take a pic
they be wantin to say that word so badly
@SEXY
“We call each other the N word but when somebody else say it its a problem?”
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yup.
It’s called respect. Pure and simple.
If Rhianna would have ignored it, she would not have apologized. This was a distasteful article. Don’t see the point in it. Sounds like a personal vendetta against someone. I don’t know who, in this day and age, would joke like that. Everybody knows the weight that word brings coming from another race. Then article was shared so many people can see, not in the privacy of her home or personal company.
She wanted her words and feelings heard.
Al
i just sent you a pic of my damage
Yea, love that lil kid. LOL!
Hey Tatted
I dont know if someone mentioned it but on the watch what happens episode Sunday does anybody know where Lawerance said Peter was? Cause that had me rolling when he said I know
A. With NeNe making lil cartoon babies wonders what a bullwinkle/papa smurf mixture would look like
B. With Ridicklous that grin said it all
SANDIE MAE: I see you are getting so big now (big-ups) that you don’t have time to change your story lines as often as before.
I used to be down with Fresh’s blog until she blew up. Now, that place is all tatted up with nothing but ads and more ads. Doesn’t have the close and comfy vibe that it once did.
ITA @Man.
Sounds much like.. “I have 5 Black friends…”
The reason they wouldn’t use “faggot” is because right now the gay community stands strong and has money to fcuk up anybody’s life and income…blacks have never really been respected and we’re already devisive as a community so we don’t have the power to shut any ish down so therefore they could give a damn how a n*gger feels
@ Gemini I know it offends you guys <—- see what I did there Not a racist I see it all the time dudes calling each other nigga My nigga this and that then when white folk say it they wanna fight
u think that even if black folks stop usin that word others won’t continue to say it?
@SAM YELL
Em is a better rapper than Jay so I doubt he would respond other than mentioning how much money he is allegedly worth.
BUT, Em don’t want no parts of Kanye.
NaijaGal says:
Not sure how to feel since people let Fat Joe and JLo make it with using **** oh excuse me nigga…Did Em ever use it?
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Evelyn and Laura Govan are constantly saying “nigga” on twitter and no one says anything. I remember on a episode of basketball wives when Evelyn kept calling Ocho a nigga and everyone thought that chit was cute. Kept saying on twitter how Evelyn snapped on him. Evelyn around here making a profit off of selling shirts about her having an affair with another woman’s husband. Telling that woman that she was a “non factor”. Until everyone is clowned in regards to using words I will not be putting the “we need to stop using that word for just blacks”.
They are Dutch with a little more word freedom but come on, this is just common sense.
Its like the Wall Street journal calling Jews tight. :Chit just will not happen.
Candi!
It’s just an example of being O or . IMO. Like, I can get into it with my brother and call him a bytch, but YOU can’t.
We don’t have to be involved in our own degradation.
When we were slaves, there was nothing we could do.
Now, we have these rich n-words going around the world selling degradation as something, new, fresh, and marvelous. Except for RICH n-words don’t have to deal with the blow back. They’ve got money and attorneys on speed dial. The rest of us have to deal with the white co-workers and people on the streets calling us that word with no real repercussions—except our fists.
And most likely, we’ll be in jail for a minute because we AREN’T rich and don’t have an attorney on speed dial.
I think The Govan’s dad is Black or half or something. That man got 4b hair.
@Luscious they actually should’ve wrote you a check on the spot…check your state laws and see how long an insurance company has to accept liability and then pay…your state may have consumer laws that will allow you to sue them for treble damages
Candi ITA!
@ Lucious wait they hit your car you werent there and they actually told you what happened
There are some good folks still out there.
@ Man that’s my opinion, deal with it bruh…
@ Twitty I have USAA, they took pics on a Tuesday direct deposited my check five days later
@OTB
whatis ITA?
They Dutch. They was prolly high when they did the interview. Forgive them for they know not what they say in Amesterdam.
awesome
sup my nig
Man I’m still waiting on you to clarify the last comment you made on the last post about my husband!!!!!
@ CD
NaijaGal says:
The reason they wouldn’t use “faggot” is because right now the gay community stands strong and has money to fcuk up anybody’s life and income…blacks have never really been respected and we’re already devisive as a community so we don’t have the power to shut any ish down so therefore they could give a damn how a n*gger feels
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Not only that, but white gays get to come out of their “victimization caves” when they feel the need to call someone a n*gger. They forget pretty quickly that blacks and browns can be gay too, and that RU PAUL is the biggest gay of them all.
@Man Em is great, don’t get me wrong, but IONO about that with Jay. I don’t think he’s really taken an L in a rap battle.
some secret language that we have. *hipster glasses*
*whispers* tell me again what it means tho just so we on the same page
I totally agree.
ITA = international trade agreement
@Mamacita,
Well, honestly, they have a point!
If I was from another country I would also think that blacks like to be called bitches and niggas.
Hell listen to a rap song and count how many times you hear them refer to themselves and others as a “nigga”.
How many chicks call themselves “bad b*tches” “five star b*tches” etc? Trina has dubbed herself the “baddest b*tch”. How many time do we say “that’s a bad b*tch right there”?
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I Go There says:
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
Is it ignant of me to state that back when I was just a lurker, not yet a member, I use to LIVE for seeing that little boy state “That’s Racist!”
Wheeeew, good times!
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That shait is funny…
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Heeey e-brother. I thought so too!
The “N” word should reference other races besides black people. I’ve met alot of ignorant stingy people of all races.
Rhianna your boss calls himself and other black people n*gger, so take it up with him.
These white folks are only following the leader……
OutsidetheBox says:
I think The Govan’s dad is Black or half or something. That man got 4b hair.
Only acceptable at certain TIMES…like when we said it about our-seff. Like Queen. When she pronounced and embraced her nigra-ism.
“I IZZZZZZZZZZZ NIGGGGGGGRA!”
It was not okay in say the movie “Mandingo” when Blanche called the slave girl her hubby had been
“YEW NUKKA BISH” and then beat the fugg outta huh. THAT ish was not okay.
candibfly says:
u think that even if black folks stop usin that word others won’t continue to say it?
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I think the fact that we condone it amongst one another speaks volumes to others. They don’t understand why it’s not ok when we ,ourselves, use the terms. They don’t understand the hypocrisy.
If it’s degrading then it shouldn’t be used period no matter the skin color of the person using the term. That’s what they believe.
That’s like saying that a fat person can call another person fat but if a skinny person calls them fat it’s a problem.
OutsidetheBox says:
I think The Govan’s dad is Black or half or something. That man got 4b hair.
girl, I just died when I saw that!
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I’m a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you, and if I’m calling my girl a bish and my guy friends my nicca, that’s teaching other people that it’s ok to do the same chit. If you grow the fugg up and subtract some tacky azz words from your vocabulary, we wouldn’t even be commenting on this post.
AL
it was a family memeber and he knew I would find out!
@ALBOY
Most folks get offended because they think its their natural right and they dont know any other way. I have a story behind why those words offend me. long story short, because my mother got a teaching job, I was pulled out of a diverse and loving elementary school and put into an all white racist one in a diff state. I literally went to school with children of the KKK who have NEVER even spoken to a person of “color”. and mind you this was just in the early 90′s. So being called a nig.ger affects me in a different way than most.
I even had a lil boy try to lick me and asked me if i tasted like chocolate, I was only 10!
Aekelani says:
The “N” word should reference other races besides black people. I’ve met alot of ignorant stingy people of all races.
I work with a lot of white people and trust me they are niccas in every since of the word 
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my mother tracked him down and he called and left me a vm and confessed
that Should say grey and black… :facepalm:
who never held a conversation with a person of “color”..
my mother would have something to say if she had seen that previous sentence… lol
Well, if whites has started out address us as the “Stupid People” and “Hey, Stupid!” degraded black people would follow in lock-step and refer to themselves and one another as “Hey Stupid!” and “I’m one of the Stupid People!”
This American system did a tremendous psychological diservice to the black psyche. And that includes its children. I am so sorry that black people are still using this word and think nothing of it—–until the master calls you by that oh so familiar name…….then you rememember to remember that there is nothing “cute” about it.
Apartheid. The Dutch created Apartheid.
man I cant belive we sitting in here blaming ourselves for this.
Do you all understand that this apology is from the editor in chief? That means at least 10 other ppl read it before her..
Thinking caps ppl. This mentality is not cause Jay Z and Ye nigga’d up Pair-ree. Zwarte Piet. Google it. Please!
@Man-respect? We dont respect ourselves but we want them to respect us like I said until everybody stop using the word its not much that can be said. We gonna have to agree to disagree on this topic bruh thanks….
Heeeeyyy Cotton Candy
and 
to her hips and azz too
chocolate divalicious aka CD says:
Aekelani says:
The “N” word should reference other races besides black people. I’ve met alot of ignorant stingy people of all races.
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I work with a lot of white people and trust me they are niccas in every since of the word
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Amen to that girl!
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
I Go There says:
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
Is it ignant of me to state that back when I was just a lurker, not yet a member, I use to LIVE for seeing that little boy state “That’s Racist!”
Wheeeew, good times!
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That shait is funny…
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Heeey e-brother. I thought so too!
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YOU and that E-brother are killin me…. I say I respect your relationship and end up in the friend zone… That’ll be the last time I say that.
@ Ace My Stable wears Body paint only No clothes at my house
Ace you stoopid.
I even had a lil boy try to lick me and asked me if i tasted like chocolate, I was only 10!
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In 1967 in Broome County, NY my dad was in a store and had a lil boy ask his momma could he take a bite? A bite of what son? Points at my daddy and says…of the chocolate man. My parents got de fugg OUTTA that store. AND they are from Alabama and had never exp. NOTHING like that. Like my momma always says…its not like there were alot of black folks on TV or anything like that at that time. The kids had really just NEVER seen a chocolate man
NO excuse for the ish to happen in modern times tho. WORD.
Al
did you see the pic
I loved RiRi’s response!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Hershey says:
I’m a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you, and if I’m calling my girl a bish and my guy friends my nicca, that’s teaching other people that it’s ok to do the same chit. If you grow the fugg up and subtract some tacky azz words from your vocabulary, we wouldn’t even be commenting on this post.
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I believe you and I are the only one’s down with this. The rest see it as hip and cute.
If somebody calls me a nigga cause they are upset with me, I have won the fight. *scoffs*
Who gets validation from other ppl who dont mean you no good anyway.
Gemini I understand how you feel I have been in similar situations not everyday like you had to endure but having folks try and touch my hair and rub my skin asking if it rubs off the whole nine I know its crazy Im sorrry you had to go through that nonsense
@ Mrs Conway Twitty I saw it you cant even ride hood <—- take the check ball out and leave the dent
OutsidetheBox says:
Apartheid. The Dutch created Apartheid.
man I cant belive we sitting in here blaming ourselves for this.
Do you all understand that this apology is from the editor in chief? That means at least 10 other ppl read it before her..
Thinking caps ppl. This mentality is not cause Jay Z and Ye nigga’d up Pair-ree. Zwarte Piet. Google it. Please!
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My GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KDub
Well I can honestly say that even in 1994, it was still happening in Maryland. Kids were proud to tell me their dad was head of the KKK and I could get “hanged” if they wanted me too. I had no idea what racism was until coming to Maryland. My innocense was tainted…..
Yall better stay above ATL then. I regulary meet ppl who dont interact in color.
You can spot a little kid not used to seeing Black folks from a mile away. Just follow the piercing eyes.
I live about an hr from Rosewood.
I dont even drive that one, it needed another motor
OutsidetheBox says:
Apartheid. The Dutch created Apartheid.
man I cant belive we sitting in here blaming ourselves for this.
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Oh! Now we have amnesia…..
Rappers have been selling blacks as n*ggers all around the world. Not only that, but black women are “hoes” all around the world.
Rhianna’s boss (a popular rapper himself) has a song called N*ggers in Paris, and he has told Oprah that he see’s nothing wrong with his white (and other) audience members shouting back that word at him during his concerts.
This reminds me of black African kings selling their own people into slavery. They didn’t think anything of it, and never, ever, thought it would ultimately effect them.
Heeeeey Iheart
Oh so ya’ll just going to ignore my question? hmm
AND CONWAY IS MY DADDY!
ALBoy
Dont be sorry for me, I appreciate my life experience. It made me appreciate not using words like that and understand the history of those before me. We all have stories some way or another IM sure!
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OutsidetheBox says:
Apartheid. The Dutch created Apartheid.
man I cant belive we sitting in here blaming ourselves for this.
Do you all understand that this apology is from the editor in chief? That means at least 10 other ppl read it before her..
Thinking caps ppl. This mentality is not cause Jay Z and Ye nigga’d up Pair-ree. Zwarte Piet. Google it. Please!
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See that’s why I fukks with yo intelligent azz. The best way to shut a fool down is to break it down. I could care less because certain rappers use the word it does NOT make it okay for others to look at a entire RACE as the reason for this ignorant azz magazine article. I have seen a lot of ****y and foolery on this blog alone but I still fukks with yall because one day I know yall will see the light.
I Go There says:
Heeey e-brother. I thought so too!
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YOU and that E-brother are killin me…. I say I respect your relationship and end up in the friend zone… That’ll be the last time I say that.
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WHAT???? You are MORE than in the friend zone….YOU’RE MY E-BROTHER!
@Brown, Oh ok
OutsidetheBox says:
If somebody calls me a nigga cause they are upset with me, I have won the fight. *scoffs*
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Then you have BOTH won. The person who called you a n*gga knows he or she can get away with it. That’s because, unlike Jayz and other rappers, you’re a poor one and can do nothing bout it.
howmanylicks_07 says:
Oh so ya’ll just going to ignore my question? hmm
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Hershey says:
Unfortunately, “we” call ourselves such degrading words that other people do think it’s ok to call us what we call ourselves… SMDH at Riri for calling herself such a sorry word and getting pissed because someone printed HER words… dumb bish
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Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times.
ok what 405
That gravi did not just copy and paste my font..
I can only
Sandra gone so long cause she working on that ignore button… 
OutsidetheBox says:
If somebody calls me a nigga cause they are upset with me, I have won the fight. *scoffs*
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Mrs Mommy says:
Then you have BOTH won. The person who called you a n*gga knows he or she can get away with it. That’s because, unlike Jayz and other rappers, you’re a poor one and can do nothing bout it
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I thought rappers refered to all women as hoes/bytches in general.
I work with yt folk and they refer to women as bytches too.
@OTB You see how they tried to dress up Zwarte Piet in red/blue/green face too?
#revisionisthistory
Sandra pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. if she types my way one more time…imma break my keyboard.
Sandra Rose says:
Hershey says:
Unfortunately, “we” call ourselves such degrading words that other people do think it’s ok to call us what we call ourselves… SMDH at Riri for calling herself such a sorry word and getting pissed because someone printed HER words… dumb bish
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Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times.
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Thank you. I would love a cooning-free nation.
Went to high school in VA and lived in a all white neighbor…often going home…Kids would scream…Move out the way here comes the N******
On the bus there would be KKK flyers…
Even at one point there was a ad in local newspaper about KKK meetings this was only 20 years ago….
(surburb not from from DC)
why say sorry for somethig your really mean, coward
i dont understand why folks get so upset when folks tell you how they really feel about you, they called martin luther king ” martin luther Coon, but that is what he really meant, and then come back and apoligze, hell if you gonna dish it out, be able to stand and take it. 
<<< SMH
colored folk kill me you use the word to “show love” and some females go around calling themselves a Gangsta B or a ride or die B or a diamond B and other things of that nature. But when some alabaster or someone of not dark color then they want to get in an uproar.
Some of us use the word everyday and yet want to get in an uproar when others do it. NUCCA”S I SWEAR
again 2 fingas up and 2 down Holla
Hershey says:
I’m a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you, and if I’m calling my girl a bish and my guy friends my nicca, that’s teaching other people that it’s ok to do the same chit. If you grow the fugg up and subtract some tacky azz words from your vocabulary, we wouldn’t even be commenting on this post.
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I believe you and I are the only one’s down with this. The rest see it as hip and cute.
Hershey says:
I’m a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you, and if I’m calling my girl a bish and my guy friends my nicca, that’s teaching other people that it’s ok to do the same chit. If you grow the fugg up and subtract some tacky azz words from your vocabulary, we wouldn’t even be commenting on this post.
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I believe you and I are the only one’s down with this. The rest see it as hip and cute.
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CLAP CLAP BRAVO!!
@ Howman what question
STILL people overseas and I see it ALL the time watch MTV, FLAVOR OF LOVE VH1, Hell even BET and they see us doing the shyt and think it is cool i was on the s-bahn (metro, train, subway) and had a little german girl ask me was my hair cotton candy and can she taste it i was rocking the afro puff but i was like WTF?? and she was like niki minaj hair is cotton candy !!! LOL homegirl was like 8 years old i would have slapped the shyt out of her but she DON”T KNOW ANY BETTER I get it .. I wish WE as a people would is it WRONG what the reporter did HELL yeah but if we do it to ourselves???? like seriously RACISTS are everywhere but some times these folks over here think they trying to be hip and cool…. based on what they see and hear…..
Thanks CD.
What in the world. 
so can they call us coons then since we are throwing it around freely?
I was watching the hangover 2 the other night and the one of them said N&&&& just as plain…
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
I Go There says:
Heeey e-brother. I thought so too!
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YOU and that E-brother are killin me…. I say I respect your relationship and end up in the friend zone… That’ll be the last time I say that.
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WHAT???? You are MORE than in the friend zone….YOU’RE MY E-BROTHER!
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Now I have to have you Think HARD about coming back to the Darkside…. That E-brother shait is making it worse….
candibfly says:
so can they call us coons then since we are throwing it around freely?
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@OTB
Makes you miss somebody looking for they floopy dont it
Only if you know what the word coon means and where it came from.
i dont understand why folks get so upset when folks tell you how they really feel about you,
Im not taking no blame for someone who cant mind their words. Not going to happen. I like my racism staright with no chaser anyway but whatever.
Yep, if the rappers stopped using this word today, we would all be equal.
aight my coon
thye can call u what they feel like and vice versa, i just say be real in what you stand for, it’s up to you to acknowledge what and who you are, they do it all the time behind closed doors, and we always say tell me to my face well they are, now how you deal with it is up to you. thats all i’m saying
so can they call us coons then since we are throwing it around freely?
aight my coon
candibfly says:
so can they call us coons then since we are throwing it around freely?
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Exactly
Soon as somebody say that its some more BS from people… This BS never ends. We call each other all this mess but get pissed when it gets thrown back at us. Why bother
I Go There says:
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
I Go There says:
Heeey e-brother. I thought so too!
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YOU and that E-brother are killin me…. I say I respect your relationship and end up in the friend zone… That’ll be the last time I say that.
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WHAT???? You are MORE than in the friend zone….YOU’RE MY E-BROTHER!
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Now I have to have you Think HARD about coming back to the Darkside…. That E-brother shait is making it worse….
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Makes you miss somebody looking for they floopy dont it
How about they didnt have no a one left…I immediately knew where they went.
@ OTB – I beg of you to NOT get angry!
How you be today anyway??
We use the words SMART, INTELLIGENT,BEAUTIFUL and POWEFUL, but yet we will always be Coons and Niggas to them.
Not sure if it would be helpful if we stopped.
@Tatted you are now my E-Challenge…..
I love Rhianna’s response!
Majority of us in the Caribbean do not use that word nor do we consider it a term of ‘endearment.’
Damn if we stop using the words bytch, fag, coon, nicca, hoe, floppy and many many more descriptive words what will we ever talk about on this blog
So we should teach our kids maners, please and thank you…all races and creeds, on that we agree (I hope…) BUT these other races and nationalities are exempt from teaching their kids history of a ppls they will encounter?
My daughter’s little play date exclaimed that SC couldnt be Black after looking at an ornament on my tree. I politely took her ass to Google and now I think she may marry a Black man.
#helpful
caligirl says:
We use the words SMART, INTELLIGENT,BEAUTIFUL and POWEFUL, but yet we will always be Coons and Niggas to them.
Not sure if it would be helpful if we stopped.
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@Cali right we are nothing to them anyways so
I dont identify with folks calling me B’s MF’s or any other name I dont answer. I just dont give those words any power, cause as soon as i do, they become a problem for me, and that is a no no. I got enuff to worry about than what a person says about me.
@ IGO – It’ll never happen, bew!
Coon is an historic word used for a black person who is undignified.
An undignified black person is the person who accepts being called n*gger and resorts to “cooning” (shucking and jiving) whenever his or her place in humanity is threatened with elevation.
@Tatt Im peachy.
I really wish Rih wouldnt have responded. Just sick her Navy on em or something.
But i do like that she kept it crass.
@ OTB – PEACHY??? I haven’t heard that in so long, and now I’m glad I have!
You getting irritated, ma?!
@MrsMommy
I guess you are directing that to Sandra since she clearly used the word in #137 stating ( Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times). I like how Sandra said N-word but typed out coon. That’s our Sandra
MrsMommy says:
Coon is an historic word used for a black person who is undignified.
An undignified black person is the person who accepts being called n*gger and resorts to “cooning” (shucking and jiving) whenever his or her place in humanity is threatened with elevation.
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Okay but who determines who’s shucking and Jiving… Everybody has an opinion. Is it a group of older black people or just Al Sharpton… Who?
chocolate divalicious aka CD says:
@MrsMommy
I guess you are directing that to Sandra since she clearly used the word in #137 stating ( Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times). I like how Sandra said N-word but typed out coon. That’s our Sandra
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I take it that you don’t properly know what the word “coon” means.
I despise both words & I would’ve went ham on that trifling heffa too. Good for you rih rih!
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
@ IGO – It’ll never happen, bew
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Oh I know I have NO CHANCE IN HELL…. but Ill at least make it interesting.
I Go There says:
MrsMommy says:
Coon is an historic word used for a black person who is undignified.
An undignified black person is the person who accepts being called n*gger and resorts to “cooning” (shucking and jiving) whenever his or her place in humanity is threatened with elevation.
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Okay but who determines who’s shucking and Jiving… Everybody has an opinion. Is it a group of older black people or just Al Sharpton… Who?
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What I said was self-explanatory.
I Go There says:
MrsMommy says:
Coon is an historic word used for a black person who is undignified.
An undignified black person is the person who accepts being called n*gger and resorts to “cooning” (shucking and jiving) whenever his or her place in humanity is threatened with elevation.
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Okay but who determines who’s shucking and Jiving… Everybody has an opinion. Is it a group of older black people or just Al Sharpton… Who?
We all kiss a little taiin every now & then….if not, you would’ve NEVER gotten the gig in the first place!
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Nahhh Im cool as a polar bear’s toenails @Tatt. i just dont like that font PER-RI-ODD.
Heeeey Jazi
y’all know there is a
right? just checking.
chocolate divalicious aka CD says:
@MrsMommy
I guess you are directing that to Sandra since she clearly used the word in #137 stating ( Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times). I like how Sandra said N-word but typed out coon. That’s our Sandra
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Mrs Mommy says:
I take it that you don’t properly know what the word “coon” means.
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Yeah I do (hands you a mirror and tells you to smile)
Black folks you are also responsible for that YT lady upstate putting “PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL: WHITE ONLY.” signs on her pool.
Own your chit.
* comes in quietly*
Yeah I do (hands you a mirror and tells you to smile)
We know Candi.
chocolate divalicious aka CD says:
chocolate divalicious aka CD says:
@MrsMommy
I guess you are directing that to Sandra since she clearly used the word in #137 stating ( Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times). I like how Sandra said N-word but typed out coon. That’s our Sandra
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Mrs Mommy says:
& then 
I take it that you don’t properly know what the word “coon” means.
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Yeah I do (hands you a mirror and tells you to smile)
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*mouth just fell wide open*
THAT WASN’T NICE!!!!
chicanigga not Black –
:agree: I dont identify with folks calling me B’s MF’s or any other name I dont answer. I just dont give those words any power, cause as soon as i do, they become a problem for me, and that is a no no. I got enuff to worry about than what a person says about me.
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In our lifetime did we ever think we would have a president that was black? Did race realtions get better? NO! Ombama has been called all kinds of Ni&&&& and they are going to continue use it in magz, movies and in the streets. We as a people need to ignore it…
i didn’t want anyone to feel left out. i figured y’all was havin too much fun in here
chocolate divalicious aka CD says:
@MrsMommy
I guess you are directing that to Sandra since she clearly used the word in #137 stating ( Exactly! I won’t even mention that coon, Common, putting Maya Angelou on a track and then dropping the N-word multiple times). I like how Sandra said N-word but typed out coon. That’s our Sandra
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Mrs Mommy says:
I take it that you don’t properly know what the word “coon” means.
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Yeah I do (hands you a mirror and tells you to smile)
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I loves you so much ChocD
@ IGO –
*in my chuuch voice*
Just like a tree planted by the waters
Lord I shall (I shall not be moved)
Hey Hony!!! Long time no font!
White mothafreaking privilege at its finest, White ppl never cease to amaze me. So because you can’t use the word I shouldn’t, White ppl want the ability to do, say, and have everything they want no matter what- I tell you privilege is a hella of a drug.
And for you Blk ppl defending this shat saying, “well we say it”…., Chile boom not every Blk person says it and what kinda excuse is that. I have gay friends that call each other fag and queen, but I bet you won’t catch White folks or anyone else saying that shat
MrsMommy says:
I Go There says:
MrsMommy says:
Coon is an historic word used for a black person who is undignified.
An undignified black person is the person who accepts being called n*gger and resorts to “cooning” (shucking and jiving) whenever his or her place in humanity is threatened with elevation.
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Okay but who determines who’s shucking and Jiving… Everybody has an opinion. Is it a group of older black people or just Al Sharpton… Who?
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What I said was self-explanatory.
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No it wasnt actually it was opinion based… Who to say what or who is undignified and who’s to say what shucking and Jiving is? See my problem with this is alot of people call something coonish or shucking and Jiving as you say. Where alor of others will not… SO whos to say what really is… Im just asking. But that was far from self expanatory.
The only thing Blk ppl need to get better at is loving one another, supporting one another, and galvanizing around the community. I don’t agree with everything Minister Farrakhan says but he is right on the mark about us as a community, but we don’t want to hear him. We rather listen to White folks logic of not using the n-word though
Hi insideyourbox
Today is heated I see…
Anyone wanna help me with my backlog of workload… been gone over 2 weeks and already miserable with all I have to do.
What I said was self-explanatory.
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No it wasnt actually it was opinion based… Who to say what or who is undignified and who’s to say what shucking and Jiving is? See my problem with this is alot of people call something coonish or shucking and Jiving as you say. Where alor of others will not… SO whos to say what really is… Im just asking. But that was far from self expanatory.
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An explanation is something WHICH IS opinion based……….
Your real problem is that you don’t know what these historical terms mean, and although you are on the Internet, you won’t even look it up.
The Makeup Maven aka Cotton Candy says:
@ IGO –
*in my chuuch voice*
Just like a tree planted by the waters
Lord I shall (I shall not be moved)
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Yeah right now you singing Church spirituals
When I throw on this press… youll be
Take of chic
bend ova let me see it….
Houria Bouteldja, a French political activist with Algerian roots, has been dragged into court and put up on charges for saying something mean about white French people.
Bouteldja, … called native white French “souchiens”…. The word derives from “souche,” or stock, as native white French are commonly called, but could sound like a hyphenated word meaning “lower than a dog.”
For this grievous insult, she faces up to six months in prison. …”
Ahh looka there. These white people aint having that chit.
Dont call us something we call ourselves! We’ll put your ass in jail.
Coon is an historic word used for a black person who is undignified.
An undignified black person is the person who accepts being called n*gger and resorts to “cooning” (shucking and jiving) whenever his or her place in humanity is threatened with elevation.
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This is the wrong definition.
And thats what I mean about that font.
IGo is def. one of the more logical thinking posters yet
*jumps thread*
My memere’ has always since being married to my papa called him “Mr. Wonderful” when I was probably ten or so, she told me that you call a man what you want him to be. They were married 59 years until death did them part. I call my son’s positive names, because I want them to grow up to be someone’s Mr. Wonderful. Just my rant and rave is all, carry on.
DL Hughley said it best….yt folks want EVERYTHING…but this they CANNOT have…let’s make a trade-off…we’ll rule the world and then they can say the N-word…
Your real problem is that you don’t know what these historical terms mean, and although you are on the Internet, you won’t even look it up.
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You don’t neither. Go google barracoon and come back with a report for the class. BYE.
This is too funny…..
Hershey says:
My memere’ has always since being married to my papa called him “Mr. Wonderful” when I was probably ten or so, she told me that you call a man what you want him to be. They were married 59 years until death did them part. I call my son’s positive names, because I want them to grow up to be someone’s Mr. Wonderful. Just my rant and rave is all, carry on.
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Well, you came from very dignified and wonderful people. I like how you are raising your son. Hopefully he will carry this on. I hope you have told him this story yourself so that he will remember.
MrsMommy says:
What I said was self-explanatory.
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No it wasnt actually it was opinion based… Who to say what or who is undignified and who’s to say what shucking and Jiving is? See my problem with this is alot of people call something coonish or shucking and Jiving as you say. Where alor of others will not… SO whos to say what really is… Im just asking. But that was far from self expanatory.
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An explanation is something WHICH IS opinion based……….
Your real problem is that you don’t know what these historical terms mean, and although you are on the Internet, you won’t even look it up.
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No my problem is people that constantly use history or what have you to
express their dislike for something they either know nothing about or are biased towards… but hey Ill let you tell it.
See to me (and this is my opinion) This is a bunch of BS
Most of us use these words and find it perfectly alright when doing so but as soon as someone non black uses the same exact term we want to get all hot under the collar. You can use history to make it seem okay but I can use the exact same history to make it not. The Nword never bothered me that damn much… Its too much other stuff to be mad over… And this isnt one of them.
Like how that chit got ignored huh.
We aren’t even on the same page.
You have no problem with calling yourself or others degrading words.
MrsMommy says:
We aren’t even on the same page.
You have no problem with calling yourself or others degrading words.
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Yes I do but when others say they do yet they still use degrading words it makes me look at them a bit sideways.
OTB
I saw that chit…
And all jokes aside us calling ourselves the N-word is not going to change people’s perceptions about us. White folks have done a fantastic job of debasing us for centuries, I am not condoning some of these rappers’ behavior, but lets be real White folks have been putting in work making all members of the African Diaspora look bad especially Black Americans.
Yes I do but when others say they do yet they still use degrading words it makes me look at them a bit sideways.
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What are you talking about
*just as the little boy @ the top says*
THAT’S RACIST!
*boy, I
that little boy*
This is a pathetic attempt to garner attention and traffic to the magazine. #fail
theres a double standard with this word, id perfer just not to say it
@ Mrs, my boys have heard the story from their gran memere’ and I try to raise them not to use those words, now when they’re around their lil friends ain’t no telling what’s been said, but I can’t control that, but you and I are > <
@100% no one is going to buy this magazine, if anything Riri’s stans just killed their production line for next month’s issue
The Parlourmagazine.com article also stated that Rihanna was from Jamaica — an insult of the highest order to Barbadians who think they’re above Jamaicans.
Actually…that’s an insult to us Jamaicans…
Half the time people think Barbadoes is the Bahamas…GTFOH 
*Saying “That’s racist!” over and over again in sync with that lil’ boy.
Try it. You will
I don’t know but I kinda get the feeling that most African Americans are cool with these words. In Namibia and South Africa, you will not go around calling people kaffir, that’s a sure way of getting an extra lip. Hell, you won’t even hear that word in a rap song. I don’t know, maybe for us, aparteid was just yesterday, it was only in 1990 when Mandela got out of prison and ’94 were allowed to vote. There are still people getting shot and killed by white farmers under the excuse that they thought it was a baboon. Even though the “whites only” signs have been remove, they’re still there. Negro and Kaffir/heffer sting like a mutherfcker to me. I tolerate them on blogs and rap songs.
Oh and white folks will never stop saying those words, whether we stop or don’t TRUST. This dude on Twitter said “I’m so sick of being white, it’s like playing a video game on easy” LOL i thought that was funny.
Oh and I just wanna
all over that apology!
MrsMommy says:
Hershey says:
I’m a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you, and if I’m calling my girl a bish and my guy friends my nicca, that’s teaching other people that it’s ok to do the same chit. If you grow the fugg up and subtract some tacky azz words from your vocabulary, we wouldn’t even be commenting on this post.
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I believe you and I are the only one’s down with this. The rest see it as hip and cute.
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Nope you are not alone. There are many Black people who agree with your posts.
co-sign to Man and Southernbelle4′s comments. I don’t go around calling myself a N or a B nor do I call others that so why should I or anybody else take the responsibility for someone else’s ignorance
Why would you assume that Bajans think they are better than everybody else…….I’m sure every country will think they are the better country, but nobody is superior to anybody (unless you the almighty). Just saying
IT’S NEVER OK TO CALL ANYONE BY THE N WORD OR THE B WORD. we lower our standards when we call ourself these names and expect better from people when they do it….I was always told lead by example. The magazine was just wrong for printing something of this maganatude and think it was a “joke”. Years later and we are still held to things of the past. we need to do better people. Respect ourself.