H. Lewis Smith, Founder/CEO of The United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc. (a non-profit organization raising funds for our educational campaign against self-destruction and debasement in various communities throughout the United States), contacted me in regards to Sharla's recent column in The Loyolan surrounding our n-word debate at LMU. He wanted me to run his article about the subject, before I informed him that we only run student pieces.
You can read his article The Pulse Beat of Buffoonery, here.
My response to Lewis went as follows:
From the Lewis piece titled The Pulse Beat of Buffoonery "The n-word is a mirror that reflects the transgressions of a once oppressive and malevolent society; a word that brought about death and destruction for a race of people's ancestors should not be spoken."
One's stance on the debate about the n-word remains to be dependent on exactly the bolded word above. For people who advocate for the death of the world (the end of use and discussion about it), they believe racism, oppression and malevolence are part of America's past. For people who believe these characteristics remain the make-up of contemporary American society, the debate about the word remains extremely important.
Nas' presence on the red-carpet to promote his new album "Nigger," was the tip of an ice berg-size investigation that he plans to conduct over the course of a Hip-Hop album, later this year.
Isolating this incident is worse that judging a book by its cover, its avoiding to read anything else about it.
Consequently, those who still think race is still a source of oppression must never close the book on the n-word.
peep the Nas-red carpet video here:
What do you think?
You can read his article The Pulse Beat of Buffoonery, here.
My response to Lewis went as follows:
From the Lewis piece titled The Pulse Beat of Buffoonery "The n-word is a mirror that reflects the transgressions of a once oppressive and malevolent society; a word that brought about death and destruction for a race of people's ancestors should not be spoken."
One's stance on the debate about the n-word remains to be dependent on exactly the bolded word above. For people who advocate for the death of the world (the end of use and discussion about it), they believe racism, oppression and malevolence are part of America's past. For people who believe these characteristics remain the make-up of contemporary American society, the debate about the word remains extremely important.
Nas' presence on the red-carpet to promote his new album "Nigger," was the tip of an ice berg-size investigation that he plans to conduct over the course of a Hip-Hop album, later this year.
Isolating this incident is worse that judging a book by its cover, its avoiding to read anything else about it.
Consequently, those who still think race is still a source of oppression must never close the book on the n-word.
peep the Nas-red carpet video here:
What do you think?
