whe u get dis from

great poem babez... real talk..

Yeh it definately connect....

definately thought provocking...

u definately got talent Indi...mi respec u fi dat.

kinda shed a negative light on an already negative subject tho'....

I kinda have a different view pan dis nigga ting.

If u think bout it u will notice although certain words have what on the surface seems like a definate negative denotation to them...they can have a positive connotation based on the context.

look @ jamaican culture...most words we use that have an aggressive or negative denotation e.g. dutty gyal/bwoi, b!$%h, chi chi man, ***** bwoi,...etc. etc.
can have a positive connotation like when these words are said between close friends.

I've noticed many times, when close friends c each other across the street for example, yell out "DUTTY GYAL!! when last me see u" or "Chi Chi Man!! u nuh c me a hail u up?". Only to see smiles an embrace or a return of the same or even more 'colourful' remarks from the other person.

I'm sure u can relate to that...i kno i can,i've done it many times.

In this context the other person would not take the words Dutty Gyal or Chi Chi Man in their negative denotation but would assume the positive connotation judging from the fact that these words are coming from a friend.

i see the same thing with the word Nigga in the american culture.

When members of the black community refer to each other as nigga, the majority of times they do so connotatively. e.g. "That's My Nigga",
"My niggas got my back",
even in Jamaican terms "A mi Nigga Dat, him nah do mi dat".

It is sometimes used Denotatively even within the black community e.g. "You ain't nutt'n but a dumb ass nigga".
And of course the one we're all familiar with, the slave master slave context.

Though what u say makes perfect sense on the surface...

I choose to look even deeper...

I don't see the constant use of the word nigga as "showing off our ignorance"

I see it as displaying growth as a race in being able to take something so denotatively negative,

putting our own spin on it,

defiantly twisting the meaning of the word into something as undeniably positive as a deep

friendship, or sense of belonging.

To me there is nothing "ignorant" about that.

I fail to see how that is the sign of a "weakend brain"