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    dots Submission Name: Nigga Pleasedots
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    Author: ariesmind
    ASL Info:    24/Male/Atlanta
    Elite Ratio:    3.82 - 75/79/18
    Words: 267
    Class/Type: Poetry/Serious
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    Description:
       This poem was taken from a book of poetry by a beautiful sister named ROBERTA WATKINS.
    The title of the book is called MERE WORDS...

    This poem struck a chord, so i decided to post it hoping it strikes many more chords throughout the community...


    Make the font bigger!! Double Spacing Back to recent posts.

    dotsNigga Pleasedots
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    Can we talk?
    about the word "nigga"
    for just a moment, if you please...
    I know its taboo, but i wanna
    talk about the one word,
    that seems to bring us to our knees.
    Let`s release
    the trigger on this word "nigga"
    and the invisible gun it holds to our head.
    By discussing the true meaning of the word,
    and what really is being said.....

    Here, a "nigga"
    is only a word, intended to make
    black people run and hide
    from the true definition of themselves,
    defined only in our strength and our pride.

    There, a nigga
    is a person from the land of Niger,
    should the truth be told.
    They are an intelligent Black people,
    stolen from thier land, for thier ivory and gold,
    chained and brought to a foreign country,
    also, to be bought and sold.

    Now...
    I know nothing of "ignorance",
    and refuse to take part in thier masters plan.
    Becasue now this nigga understands
    it doesn`t take too smart of a man,
    to steal yet another tribes`s land,
    and when he gets it....
    he can`t work it by his own hand.

    Be proud....
    to be from the lineage of a tribe,
    that our task masters can only describe,
    as the backbone of thier borrowed land,
    due to the intelligence of their black man.
    And don`t go around here hanging your head,
    instead, lift it with pride.
    And stop letting this one little word,
    make you break your stride.
    Nigga, please!!!!!


    Again people this taken from the book of poetry called MERE WORDS, by Roberta Watkins




    Submitted on 2005-03-01 13:49:28     Terms of Service / Copyright Rules
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      this is very poignant.

    There, a nigga
    is a person from the land of Niger,
    should the truth be told.
    They are an intelligent Black people,
    stolen from thier land, for thier ivory and gold,
    chained and brought to a foreign country,
    also, to be bought and sold.

    i've always cringed at the word "nigger," but i am white, and i know that when the word is spoken by a white person, it is derogatory and hate-filled. i saw beauty in this write, coming from this African American woman taking back her name. this definitely struck a chord with me, even tho i am white.

    ~Shalom
    | Posted on 2005-03-01 00:00:00 | by magnicat | [ Reply to This ]
      Now...
    I know nothing of "ignorance",
    and refuse to take part in thier masters plan.
    Becasue now this nigga understands
    it doesn`t take too smart of a man,
    to steal yet another tribes`s land,
    and when he gets it...
    he can`t work it by his own hand.
    | Posted on 2005-03-01 00:00:00 | by KNS | [ Reply to This ]
      Now...
    I know nothing of "ignorance",
    and refuse to take part in thier masters plan.
    Becasue now this nigga understands
    it doesn`t take too smart of a man,
    to steal yet another tribes`s land,
    and when he gets it...
    he can`t work it by his own hand.
    | Posted on 2005-03-01 00:00:00 | by KNS | [ Reply to This ]
      Hey ariesmind ;0)

    Sorry, my computer jammed ;0)

    This is a good poem, that really makes you think about the word "nigga", think about the history, how people are still getting treated as slaves an so on. It puts a lot in perspective and still are very well made. Respect ;0)

    I especially liked :

    Now...
    I know nothing of "ignorance",
    and refuse to take part in thier masters plan.
    Becasue now this nigga understands
    it doesn`t take too smart of a man,
    to steal yet another tribes`s land,
    and when he gets it...
    he can`t work it by his own hand.

    Funny that..
    the history keeps repeating itself ;0) We are Armed with knowledge and spirit of blood...
    Why do we not learn from history ;0)

    take care, sorry for the mess I have made ;0)

    KNS
    | Posted on 2005-03-01 00:00:00 | by KNS | [ Reply to This ]
      Let`s release
    the trigger on this word "nigga"
    and the invisible gun it holds to our head.
    By discussing the true meaning of the word,
    and what really is being said...

    this is without a second though the most important part of the poem.i think its that people don't realize what they're sayin, that makes the word so terrible.there is a level of pride associated with the word nigger/nigga, as opposed to the negative meaning it takes when someone of the other race says it, we take offence (this bull[censored] needs to stop).these people worked their fingers to the bone and half of them thought they had it better in Am. than they ever did in the motherland;but, i digress. the only thing we think when we hear nigger is slave, which isn't wrong, rather incomplete. we come from a race of hard workers. damn good jewelers, and perhaps the most patient black mutha [censored]as this blue and green surface has even witnessed. but i ramble. gorgeous piece.
    ~perry david spadoni II "nahlij"
    | Posted on 2005-03-04 00:00:00 | by Aknahlij_d 1 | [ Reply to This ]



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