What Nigga Means

How so many choose to forget what the word nigga really means
How this one word represents thousands of our people burned, mutilated, murdered, hung up until their necks were broken on trees
Maybe you choose not to recognize what the word nigga was meant to symbolize
It is a word used to proclaim us as less than, viewed beneath animals in the massa's eyes
See over the centuries you have  been brainwashed to believe you are that nigga  that the slave master, that the family breaker, that the wife raper, that the life taker, massa so callously deemed you to be
So now how about we deprogram our youth and reprogram them with the truth about what mighty people God created us to be
Instead of greeting each other with "What's up my nigga" How about we stand up and prove that we really are bigger than this label that through centuries of mistreatment have
now been engrained as a legitimate name  extremely  embedded in the dark crevices of our brains
Let us begin to address each other as brother and sister
Break free from the mind games designed to pit us against one another Rise up as the kings and queens we were intended to be instead of mentally beaten down submitting to history's past assaults of physical abuse, distorted truths and a verbal litany of a word that still continues today in tragedy
If you believe that it is time to break free and let the world know you will no longer be deceived into believing that it isn't anything less than ok to be addressed as the man or woman God created equally in His image then stand up against the ugly name that carries with it centuries of blood, death, and pain For our ancestors whose skins with whips were slashed and marred let's bury the word nigga and all its lingering scars
And never forget what it meant Never forget

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