Black TikToker challenges the normalization of the N-word, recounting harrowing childhood experiences in North Carolina and Virginia where white supremacists, including Klansmen and men with rebel flags, threatened him and his family. He details specific incidents involving verbal abuse and intimidation, contrasting these dangers with the term's current usage as a "term of endearment" within the Black community. Ultimately, he argues that ignoring this violent history perpetuates harm, urging everyone to cease using the word regardless of intent or heritage. [Automatically generated summary]
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Why Black People Use That Word00:03:32
Yeah, I got a new show for y'all.
We got a damn good show.
I'm about to show you this message.
It's a beautiful message, man.
It's a beautiful message.
And I think, I mean, I say it, but when I say it, we're joking, but we shouldn't say it either.
Yeah, an N-word.
Yeah, I've been sitting here in the last couple of videos because it just sounds funny.
But I really shouldn't be using that word.
Yeah, in my opinion, and I've always said there's no black guy.
Yeah.
Nobody should use that word.
Right?
But for some reason, the black community thinks they've taken that name and turned it into a term of endearment, which is crazy as hell.
Because I know white people, when white people like crazy as hell, these niggas calling each other niggas.
I know white people's like, man, this is just bizarre.
It is.
I said that wrong.
What?
Maybe a racist white man would say these niggas calling each other niggas.
White people look back.
Wow, black people calling each other the n-word.
That's how I should have said it.
That's like an oxymoron when I said, wow, these niggas calling each other.
You know what the racist white people are thinking?
I taught these niggas good.
Right, right.
What do you call that?
Stockholm synchro?
It's something like that.
Something like that.
But I'm going to show you the video.
And no, check it out.
Check out the video.
Story.
Just yesterday, a young black guy on my job, around 27 years old.
He called me the N-word.
And I got upset.
And I told him, I want him, don't call me the N-word.
So he didn't quite understand why I was upset about him calling me the N-word.
And I said, let me tell you a little story.
I said, back in the early 1980s, my parents moved us to an all-white town in North Carolina.
I was around 12 years old.
Okay.
And with them days that moved to this town, we saw Ku Kuck Klan newsletters and all kind of crap in our front yard every day.
Okay.
So my brother, my younger brother and I, we were like, why would our parents move us to an all-white town like this?
We didn't understand.
So, but in the midst of all that, you know, I met two cool little white dudes and they told me where I can go ride my BMX bike and skateboard and all this kind of stuff.
Anyway, I went there, had a good time, and I left.
And when I left there, I was by myself riding my bike back home.
I was riding.
All of a sudden, a car jumped the curve.
It was two older white men took out the car and said, where you going, N-word?
I looked and they said, take your ass back where you come from, you little N-word.
And the taller one, he took and looked at.
You better not call it.
I don't care if you black, Puerto Rican.
I don't care if you black as the ace of spades.
You call me to whoop your ass.
He can whoop your ass.
What happened to him when he was 12 with them white people?
He's going to take it all.
Your black ass.
But that's a lot of wisdom in what he's saying.
There's a lot of wisdom, man.
It's a beautiful message.
Nobody should be saying that.
Even black people.
And black people, everybody needs to hear this message.
I understand why white supremacists use that term, but I never understand why black people use that as a term of endearment.
It just boggles my mind.
You know what?
He grew up in North Carolina.
We grew up like maybe an hour from North Carolina.
And we grew up in Marnsville, Virginia.
And he brought up the Klan.
Every year, annually, the Klan would walk down the main street in our city.
The Ku Klux Klan.
Yeah.
And I'm sure he's seen it too because he's, oh no, he might be a little bit older than us.
It looks like we're about the same age.
Around 50.
But anyway, and I ain't 50.
What the hell are you talking about?
I'm 35.
I'm 37.
No, we're 35.
Yeah, yeah.
Growing Up With White Supremacy00:01:40
What the hell you talking about?
I'm 35.
I ain't 50.
But anyway, and so I know exactly what he went through.
I mean, we grew up in the south, too, Virginia, and I got called that a lot by way that happened.
I walked up the street.
I was going to go play with my friend G.B. Hopkins.
And I was walking by this house.
And there was a rebel flag front out front.
There's a bunch of rednecks out there drinking with mullets, drinking Paps Blue Ribbon Beer.
One of them had this big ass great day.
I thought he was gonna stick that big ass dog on me.
That dog look like a damn deer.
It was huge, right?
And they looked at me.
I was scared.
He said, you know what that white man told me?
You know what he told me?
What did he tell you, man?
Because he knew who I was.
He knew I was going to go play with his.
Well, he knew of GB.
He didn't really know.
But anyway, he knew who I was.
He said, get your green-eyed spear-chucking ass up the street.
Shit, crazy, right?
It's a crazy world, man.
And then GB Hopkins, underneath him, he had this big fat white girl that went to school with me.
Well, she was old.
She was in high school.
And she wanted to molest me.
I grew up in a crazy white side of town.
Instead of growing with the poor black side of town, I grew up in the poor white side of town, which is 100 times better.
Hey, what did GB do, man?
Did he stand up for you?
I went to his house.
He wasn't even home.
It was next door.
Man, you a dumbass nigga.
Could have lost your life.
Stupid.
Did you just.
The whole point of this video is to stop saying the word.