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Sticks and Stones

Writer: Mandy Richards

Why Nigger will never be the new Black! | Who you calling..., Yid, Paki, Paddy, Jock, Chink? | Mind Your Language | Links

Disclaimer: The following feature discusses the use of words that, to varying degrees, can be considered vulgar or offensive. Out of necessity, this entails the use of the words in question. It is strongly advised that, should you find such words distressing or inappropriate, you do not read on beyond this point. For the rest of you, some bad language follows...

Why Nigger will never be the new Black!

Sticks and Stones, the sixty minute C4 documentary on the controversial use of the N-word was a revelation not only for its narrator Ashley Walters (aka Asher D of So Solid Crew) but for anyone who has ever attempted to unravel the negative potency of the word nigger. Asher D was confident that his own everyday 'street' use of the word meant most people would find it meaningless in a modern context too. However his cross-cultural and intergenerational survey confirmed that even some of his peers, like DJ Shystie, take an anti N-word stance. She tells him "it's a negative thing�It doesn't matter how much times you try make it sound hip, it's not hip!" Confronted with his own information gap about the origins of the word and its impact historically Asher D comes to understand why the use of the N-word is such an emotive subject.

I can only say that the impact of slavery, the impact of racism, is doing its business well, if we have to call ourselves nigger and say its Ok, let's have a laugh and joke about it.
Gloria Wyatt MBE – Sticks and Stones

Attempts to subvert, desensitize and undermine the N-word's power have successively failed. Unlike the powerful reclamation of the term 'Black' during the 60s Civil Rights movement the N-word has never been universally embraced by black or white people as a positive term of reference in any context. Its origins during the time of the transatlantic slave trade and its use as a form of subjugation and oppression are, still too brutally alive for this to happen. The contemporary tension surrounding the N-word's colloquial evolution is currently the subject of much debate. And probably the reason why the word nigger will never be the new Black.

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