Because hip-hop is, in his view, "not about race," and because he so closely identifies with the genre, he should be allowed to use the word "nigger" (or its variant "nigga") without recrimination.
Rodolfo had four kids with three different women, so the nigger was without doubt the family's resident metiéndolo expert.
Why have words taken on a such a power that that certain epithets and expletives cannot even be used contextually, say in a work of fiction like Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus without causing the situation that Ray Bradbury envisioned in Fahrenheit 451.
Such crass segregation, along with the racism of a time when 10,000 in a crowd could chant, without risk or qualm, "Nigger, nigger, lick my boots" at the West Bromwich legend Cyrille Regis, are seen as relics of our past.
Nigger would have hung with her; Nigger socialised without regard for race, creed, colour, or previous condition of nationality … although he might have drawn the line at a politician.
And we — blacks and whites — are still cultivating the nigger in our hearts and minds, because we cannot do without him.
Young White male with sandy blonde hair shoots up a Nigger Church in the middle of Charleston, SC and vanishes without a trace into the night.
Title: Free Black Love Director: Black man or woman Use of the word nigger: 0 (And how can you make a movie about slavery without using the word nigger? That's like making a movie about football without saying touchdown...) Violence: Minimum (somehow).
