Just as incorrect as Russia attempting to hide its negative history by removing information from textbooks. The same would be true in trying to come up with a positive meaning for the word nigger. It's too embedded within the history of black slavery. People who know that history are probably just as unnerved when they hear it as say a person who is very religious. When someone uses "God" or "Jesus" as a swear word, it can be unnerving to a person that revears those words.
Some terms just need to be used in the correct connotation. For example, recently the speaker of the house for Utah representatives lost his charmanship because he called a bill they were working on an "ugly black baby." Because of their history that they've lived blacks are very sensitive to terms that refer nagatively to their race.
Also, I think that rappers are degrading their race. Individuals like Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, and Barak Obama are examples of negroes sensitive to their history and wanting to take the negroe away from the gangster low-life connotation. They have hope and have arisen above the white mans low expectations of them. I don't know, but I would assume the individuals I mentioned above would be offended and disagree with the degrading use of the N word.
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