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[The word's use] in popular media like music and film have created some confusion as to whether or not there is ever a time when the use of the N-word is acceptable. For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script).
Stevie Wonder used the word in the album version (but not the single version) of his 1973 song "Living for the City." Freddie Mercury used the word in Queen's song "The March of the Black Queen" from the 1974 album Queen II. In 1975 Betty Davis used the word in her song "F.U.N.K."; Bob Dylan used the word in his song "Hurricane". [33]
"Rock n Roll Nigger" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, and released on the Patti Smith Group's 1978 album Easter. While the song has always been controversial for its repeated use of the racial epithet "nigger", a remix was included on the soundtrack of the 1994 film Natural Born Killers and it has since been covered by several other artists, including Marilyn Manson (1995).
Nigga (/ ˈ n ɪ ɡ ə /) is a colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered vulgar in many contexts. It began as a dialect form of the word nigger, an ethnic slur against black people.
You might be surprised by how many popular movie quotes you're remembering just a bit wrong. 'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think
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Two decades after they said “Bye Bye Bye,” ‘NSync is back with a brand new song.. In “Better Place,” released Friday, September 29, the beloved boy band – Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez ...
In the United States, there have been several controversies involving the misunderstanding of the word niggardly, an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to nigger, an ethnic slur used against black people. Although the two words are etymologically unrelated, niggard is nonetheless often replaced with a ...