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So back when racism
against blacks was at one of its highs, blacks had an idea.
Why don’t we change the game? So they took it and they
changed it. They changed it and threw it back in the white
man’s face saying “This is ours now. We’ve taken your weapon
and turned it into a friend. You can’t hurt us anymore.”
When in fact we’ve made a weapon and turned it against
ourselves. By doing this we don’t hurt anyone but ourselves.
The third and final part of the problem is that the rest of
us believe that only blacks can say it, but when it strays
outside the community, it’s unacceptable when, in fact, it’s
always unacceptable. No one, I repeat, no one should ever
let either of those words escape out of their mouth. This
word should have been stopped dead in its tracks when racism
was at its peak and yet it still lives on in our homes, our
music and our televisions. And, yeah, it’s great to say
that you disapprove but what can you do to change something.
I had the same problem as
the beginning of this. I knew that I wanted to do something
th help the problem of the “N” word. The thing was I
couldn’t think of anything. So I broke down the problem, as
I did in the previous paragraph. By doing this I realized
that I had two solutions. The first: explain to people what
it really means and the negative history that it carries.
Most of the people that used the word “nigga” could be
swayed by realizing that it doesn’t mean what they think it
means; that it and “nigger” were so closely related they
were basically siblings.
There is barely any
difference at all except one hides behind a fake mask of
friendship and the other is bare for all the world to see it
rear its ugly head. My second solution is to put up a pledge
on our middle school pledge wall so that those who do
believe that this is wrong can pledge to finally shun all
use of the two words. These people will help stop the
problem even though some might think doing it only affects
them. I’ve already made one mini speech to my community of
middle schoolers and I’ve put p the pledge to not use the
“N” word and not to tolerate the use of it around you also.
Six people have already signed the pledge and I know that
others will also. People came up to me after my speech and
told me that what I said was very powerful and made them
think. This is how I know that people can make this change
if they put their minds to it.
When someone uses or
tolerates the use of the “N” word, that doesn’t just
negatively affect only them, it reaches out and affects
those around you. Then it affects those around them and so
on and so on until the entire world is contaminated. Can we
stop the disease before it infects the entire world is the
question. I believe that by explaining just what the “N”
word means and the history that it carries, people will
finally understand how uncouth and horrible this word really
is. I think that if we take the initiative we can stop the
disease. I hope we won’t have to pass this onto our children
and they won’t have to suffer through this like we did.
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