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Chicago Street Journal August 20—September 2, 2020 Page 21(Continued from page 10)[Common] said that for a minute, then he continued to sayit [the N-word] because at the end of the day, it's whatfeeds the purse."As the years go on, hip hop has become ever more omnipresentin the music industry. With the rapid proliferationof fans of the genre, the N-word has made its way backinto the national spotlight.Black people have hurled the infamous word for nearlyas long as white folk have. In the past the elders wouldsweep the youth to the side to explain its history. Andtalked about how slave owners used the word in a derogatoryfashion, treating their property as less than human, andhow the word continued to linger for the years to come.Many made it a conscious point to never, ever say it.When this tale collides with reality, it shatters as a misreadingof history — the current use of the word is owedless to white folk calling black folk “nigger” and more toblack folk who say they are niggers and said so.This kind of indiscriminate of the word is associatedwith violence that continues to occur, as Chicago has witnessis highest year of youth killing youth. As where 15people were gunned down outside of a funeral in Chicago,and babies being shoot, is the thought by each trigger releasedis a Nigger Bullet, with no humanity for life.African-American youth are roughly six times as likelyas white Americans to die at the hands of a murderer, androughly seven times as likely to murder someone; theirvictims are black 82% of the time. Homicide is the secondmost important reason for the racial gap in life expectancy:Black homicide offenders don’t kill people because theyhave dark skin, like a Klan member would. This may seemobvious, and yet the myth of black-on-black crime persists.One youth points out, “We go where the business is andwhere the man ain’t looking. Can you see me going up toDeerfield, black as I am, trying to stick up? The man wouldbe on me so fast I couldn’t get a chewing gum wrapper.Any way, he don’t care if niggers get ripped off. But youcan bet he’s watching his ‘thang’ back in his own ‘hood.’In 2015, Washington Post contributor Michael Teslerwrote an op-ed titled, "Using the n-word is more commonthan you (or President Obama) may think." Teslermentions how he "asked a nationally representative sampleof 1,000 participants in the 2012 CooperativeCongressional Election Study, or CCES, how often theyhad used the n-word over the past five years." Notably,almost one-third of whites reported using the N-word atleast "once or twice" during the time period in question.Just as Caucasians are not white, but pink (as the nativeAmericans say ‘Pale Face’, and African Americansare not really black but shades of brown.However ‘Nigger’ is referred to as Black.Many answers address why the use of the N Word. Butis has become a culture of acceptance, just as killing hastoday.Ultimately, white allies look on and commit themselves todecrying the supposedly wounding act. “Why can’t we useit if they do?” It isn’t rocket science to understand thatwords can have more than one meaning, and a sensible ruleis that blacks can use the word but whites can’t.After years of habitual use of “nigger,” White folks indoctrinatedthe music to Nigger and drugs and killings toaccepting their supposed inferiority so well they don’t haveto use it outward any more. The success of mental terrorism,and no word conveyed the depth of this internalizedoppression more than “nigger.”As a black person in America, having so many limits atevery turn…being able to say the N-word gives black peoplejust one small bit of power. And at the same time, thesole authors of their own devastation, a racial selfimage;even when pulling the trigger of a gun.The uncomfortable truth must be confronted: It's onething to ban a word because it is a pitiless slur often used,however the old saying my Malcolm X, “who taught you tohate self’ to physical violence.As children are truly powerful beings with limitlesspotential. It's time that the messages they receive reinforcethat. Quite a few to point to. Why not strength inachievements in the Culture of what they think of eachother?Sen. Harris Biden’s VP(Continued from page 4)Harris a “terrific” pick, whileHillary Clinton, tweeted that Harris“already proved herself to bean incredible public servant andleader. So, I know she’ll be astrong partner to Joe Biden.Please join me in having her backand getting her elected.”It may be too soon to saywhether Biden will win in November,but it will be a clear pathfor Harris to easily become thenation’s 46th president.Story in parts by POLITICO(Continued from page 9)and residents. The struggle in the African Americancommunities in Chicago is about losing control of theland. A people that don’t have control of its land are apeople without a home. Local long-term business ownershave not been respected for their more than 50 years ofservice to the Roseland Michigan Ave. Misuse and divestmentof any community development assets andequity created to build the wealth of distressed communitiesis the root cause of socioeconomic decay.To reverse the diminishing wealth within Black Chicagocommunities requires strict accountability, redressand economic restoration. Since 2017 research and continuedmajor reports on the growing wealth gap in theAfrican American families, determined it will take AfricanAmericans 228 years to bridge the gap and 83 yearsfor Hispanic families!Roseland Business Development Council invites, andencourages, all local businesses participation. RBDC’smembership, however, consists of all Black owned businessesin Roseland supported by its membership andcommunity support of their Annual Banquet.
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