Caribbean N-words, neg,negga, nayga, nyaga etc, etc

[LiteBlonde]

Re: Caribbean N-words, neg,negga, nayga, nyaga etc, etc

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

I think you two should get a room. </div></div>
You have one fe rent? </div></div>


Yes. </div></div>
i dare ask, and me know me putting some things in jeopardy but.
wa kind a room?

[LiteBlonde]

Re: Caribbean N-words, neg,negga, nayga, nyaga etc, etc

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Good pickup</span> Sukie, mi waiting for someone to duh the &quot;mullatto&quot; thingy....those words today are not politically correct, but sometimes I use them to make my point..

I think Skelley has a handle on what the word means a yaawd, and the differences in connotation...if someone refers to me as a &quot;Neygah or naygah ooman&quot; I cannot be offended, for that is the truth, *I* am regarded as &quot;black&quot; by definition...If dem call mi &quot;OLE NEYGAH&quot; fight agguh bruk...

At the same time, if a Caucasian refers to me by either name, I wouldn't take kindly to it...a juss soh it set wid mi..they are the ones who started this name calling BS to reinforce their vicious racism...so go figgah..

Now, fi donkie years the Manleys and even Bustamante were literally worshiped by Jamaican blacks because of how they looked, [figget bout the politricks of it] ppl thinking seh dem &quot;white&quot; and therefore deserve adoration..when in truth and in fact dem juss as black and even blacker dan some a wi.

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Sooooo True!</span> Reminds me of a book I just finished reading. <span style="font-style: italic">Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma</span> by Charles V Hamilton. Poignant same way.

[britisha]

Re: Caribbean N-words, neg,negga, nayga, nyaga etc, etc

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DotCom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Good pickup</span> Sukie, mi waiting for someone to duh the &quot;mullatto&quot; thingy....those words today are not politically correct, but sometimes I use them to make my point..

I think Skelley has a handle on what the word means a yaawd, and the differences in connotation...if someone refers to me as a &quot;Neygah or naygah ooman&quot; I cannot be offended, for that is the truth, *I* am regarded as &quot;black&quot; by definition...If dem call mi &quot;OLE NEYGAH&quot; fight agguh bruk...

At the same time, if a Caucasian refers to me by either name, I wouldn't take kindly to it...a juss soh it set wid mi..they are the ones who started this name calling BS to reinforce their vicious racism...so go figgah..

Now, fi donkie years the Manleys and even Bustamante were literally worshiped by Jamaican blacks because of how they looked, [figget bout the politricks of it] ppl thinking seh dem &quot;white&quot; and therefore deserve adoration..when in truth and in fact dem juss as black and even blacker dan some a wi.

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Sooooo True!</span> Reminds me of a book I just finished reading. <span style="font-style: italic">Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma</span> by Charles V Hamilton. Poignant same way. </div></div>

Sounds like a good read. I vaguely remember when Powell caught hell because of his colour, although some of us wudda look at him and think he is/was white, and it didn't matter.


On a side note: some of the very people who Adam helped by getting legislation passed to allow them into the US, tun roun and hate black ppl rows [sp]