Nigger (read it)
0 2018-01-11 by Enok-Stroth
“Nigger!” shouts a man dressed in muddied boots, weathered pants, and a stain shirt.
A black man sitting at the bus stop rises up.
With a calm demeanor he begins to speak.
“Let your heart be at peace, I see no nigger here. No sir there is no nigger here indeed. Nor do you see a proud black man before you. What you see is but a man. The foundation of my strength does not come from the color of my skin. So I wont be so easily provoked. Because if I were to build myself up on the basis of my skin color that would cause for a weak foundation. One so easily controlled. One that gives way to emotion. But i’ve built myself up knowing that I am a man. More so than that I am human. This you can’t take way from me. No. But I have fought for your right to call me a nigger and I’d do so again. For if it gives you reprieve to express that vitriol then please do so. Because I am no nigger and can never be one. That word has no power over me. I’ve never thought for a second I could be a nigger. Never knew a man who thought himself one either.”
The man who shouted nigger. Has paused but for a moment, he moves his mouth to speak.
But the black man continues.
“You see, all those that build themselves up on the basis of skin, white, black or brown are weak individuals. They can be controlled and pressed. Push to react a certain way. Because they have to protect the foundation that they’ve built up. They will be hard pressed to recognize that you can’t really build on top of that foundation, because you’ve got to constantly defend it.”
“My parents told me I should be proud to be black, they too didn’t understand that my sense of pride came from within. Not because I was born with this skin. I was shunned from other black kids that thought I acted too white .I never knew what that meant. SO I told them I am who I am, what you see is skin. You don’t see me for who I really am.”
He takes his seat at the bus stop.
The man who shouted nigger begins to walk again. His eyes bloodshot, and the smell of liquor off his breath. He with teary eye’s says “Niggger” , he falls to his knees.
(What you don’t know about the man shouting nigger is his wife was beaten and raped by 4 black men. For some gang initiation. His wife didn’t survive. So the hate in his heart grew. But the man before him was no nigger this he knew. )
He begins to weep.
The man who spoke from the bus stop rises once more. He offers his hand to the man weeping. He brings him up to the bus stop bench. Embraces the man with a strong arm around his shoulder. Allows the man to cry. There they sit in silence, with the balling of a drunken man. He never knew the back story of the man who exclaimed nigger. But he didn’t need it.
He saw a hurt individual who only knew how to express his pain through words. Was it wrong to express that pain? No.
I wrote this because I think there is conspiracy to not only divide us but for us to some how be afraid of words. To allow words to have power over us. The topic at hand isn't something that should be censored.
Freedom of expression in all of its glory should be embraced. Aye if you got hate in your heart then out with it. If you must call me names to rid yourself of that hate then so be it.
100 comments
1 bogpiII 2018-01-11
TLDR
1 WestCoastHippy 2018-01-11
Maybe stick to games or Facebook?
1 bogpiII 2018-01-11
I'm playing call of duty right now
1 Balthanos 2018-01-11
The division of humans by race is a control mechanism used since time immemorial.
1 Iamamansass 2018-01-11
Words are spells.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
I'd like to say that I'm not a black man. I am mixed race cuban, white (Scottish, i believe) Born in the United States of America. That makes me 100 percent American. But before any of that I am human first. Whatever that means. I think race and identifying with it and building yourself up on that basis is something that is very detrimental to society.
1 talixansoldier 2018-01-11
Cuban sandwiches are fire
1 MiltownKBs 2018-01-11
good ones are. I have had what I consider to be good ones, but I am in WI, so I am not sure I have every had one in its fully glory.
1 dickjokesauce 2018-01-11
excellent post, OP.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Thank you.
1 pawsmface 2018-01-11
Preach it.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Blatant propaganda to further the narrative which insists that blacks do not have an unbelievably low average IQ.
1 IndigoMD 2018-01-11
The irony.. how does one bitch about propaganda then support it all in the same sentence?
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
You are easily confused.
1 IndigoMD 2018-01-11
Nah pretty spot on.. I guess this where your going to use propaganda and ignore the way blacks have been treated then use IQ to prove your point.
Sooo yea propaganda.
I would love to tell you more. Especially about white people but it seems you'll rather be a tool of rome and fake Jews.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Nope.
1 IndigoMD 2018-01-11
Fair enough, it's either acknowledge youve been lied to continue to usher in the cultural genocide of "whites/europeans" but either or blacks are going to be here till the end. White people are playing themselves at this point.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Care to try again in hopes of making sense? White people are waking up simply demonstrated by Trump getting elected. You are in utter denial.
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
Lol wow. White people are gulliable. Especially the really stupid ones. As evidenced by trumps election and their continued support of him.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
What do your delusions have have to do with the current topic?
1 dickjokesauce 2018-01-11
where did OP bring up IQ? nowhere. that's your injection. which funnily enough smells of propaganda.
also, i don't think unbelievably means what you think it does.
1 lh_counterpoint 2018-01-11
Either the point is that black people are more likely to be poor, poor districts are more likely to be undereducated, and artificial measurements of intelligence like IQ should not be used.
Or they're just being racist.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
IQ is innate and unchangeable.
1 misto1481 2018-01-11
Wow that is so laughably innaccurate it makes me believe your IQ is under 70.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/36143-iq-change-time.html
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Adult.
1 misto1481 2018-01-11
Yes I am...your point?
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
Lol what?! Do you even know what an IQ test is or how it works?! Wait.....no. you obviously don't or else you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself like this.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Ok
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Ok
1 joe_jaywalker 2018-01-11
Well most people wouldn't believe it if you tell them.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Below 70 is unbelievable to most people.
1 dickjokesauce 2018-01-11
it seems like you're applying selective criteria to determine value. that's a road to imbalance.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
No.
1 politicalconspiracie 2018-01-11
Lyndon B Johnson
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
He also didn't have the decades of worldwide IQ testing statistics that we have now.
1 politicalconspiracie 2018-01-11
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
If you are basing your beliefs on what someone is saying about what would probably happen if every black person took an iq test, you're putting loads of faith in assumptions and more than that, you're hoping that somehow if it's all true it makes you surperior to a ton of people. If you need someone to look down on to feel better then you need to first be at peace with yourself. Get over your self loathing somehow, go do something good and worth doing. Because when you are truly at peace with yourself, you won't need a race to look down upon.
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
If you are basing your beliefs on what someone is saying about what would probably happen if every black person took an iq test, you're putting loads of faith in assumptions and more than that, you're hoping that somehow if it's all true it makes you surperior to a ton of people. If you need someone to look down on to feel better then you need to first be at peace with yourself. Get over your self loathing somehow, go do something good and worth doing. Because when you are truly at peace with yourself, you won't need a race to look down upon.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
You are reading way too much into everything. What you have said speaks far more about how you perceive other people based on a single statement or two.
You've wasted all that time and imagination creating a fictional boogeyman of which I bear no resemblance. Weird.
1 baebumpkin 2018-01-11
IQ is a false creation made up by the Globalists on who best adapts to the Globalist system. Anyone who believes in IQ has low IQ
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Typical liberal logic. "Everything is the opposite of what it actually is!"
1 baebumpkin 2018-01-11
Typical Globalist. Believe what they say with no evidence.
Also not Liberal.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Typical liberal. Lying whenever convenient.
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
How many groups of people do you need to look down upon to feel better about yourself? Maybe you need therapy.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
I couldn't be happier.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
I couldn't be happier.
1 oldMiseryGuts 2018-01-11
It always saddens me to find that people like you still exist. Never the less, how ironic that someone from the “superior” race can’t find any science to back up his absurd claims about IQ
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
Funny how you're trying to project your hopes into reality.
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
Then you should have no problem hanging out with them. Birds of a feather, afterall.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
I grew up surrounded by them. You have likely met one or two. Perhaps seen one as you were driving by in the ciry.
1 AVirtualDuck 2018-01-11
/r/copypasta
1 Monsterdrama 2018-01-11
Far as I can tell nigger's are simply slaves, content to be allowed to exist, fearful of what they might know or think, sad to realize there was something else in the back of their heads...
AKA, Americans
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
Yep. If you're reading this, you're a slave. Our govt has seen it fit to force us all to be n***ers.
1 ShadowSeeker1499 2018-01-11
Yep. If you're reading this, you're a slave. Our govt has seen it fit to force us all to be n***ers.
1 capitolshill 2018-01-11
A halmark feature of the modern domesticated man is the delegation of personal authority to others. Instead of working out a neighbor dispute, they call the police. If someone is too noisy in a theatre instead of asking the person to please quiet down they call staff. Revolving doors stop, and they wait instead of just pushing the door. Something needs fixing on the car or around the house, they call the repair man instead of trying to do it themselves.
I have an inalienable right to self expression. I do not advocate or call for violence (outside of self-defence or defence of family from an imminent threat). Therefore, no entity has any authority to tell me what words I can and cannot use. But, there are idiots who haven't the ability to build a context-appropriate vocabulary- that is a different topic
1 -golden-ratio 2018-01-11
AND THEN EVERYBODY CLAPPED
1 AsbestosMcQueen 2018-01-11
Unborn unceasing, with a nature like the sky.
1 Wskytits 2018-01-11
Love this
1 DoEyeNoU 2018-01-11
Words only have the effect intended when the recipient is weak. If you know who you are, are confident in yourself, and truly find inner peace, those words become not insulting but a cry for help from their speaker.
You can find those who are "awake" simply by observing an exchange such as this. These days that's how I find the people I want in my life.
In this case, I would also want to invite the speaker into my life. Why? He listened. That tells me he is waking up.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
You get it.
1 hsmith711 2018-01-11
People don't shout nigger to "rid their heart of hate"... they say it to spread hate.
You don't get it.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
What you don't get, is if he isn't allowed to say that shit to my face, he will go and plot with his buddies. The hate becomes more compartmentalized, hidden from society until it gets to a boiling point and have an all out race war.
What you don't get is that their ideology is weak and can be countered with strong argument. What you don't get is by allowing freedom of speech to reign true. It ensures that we all have the right to express ourselves. So the price of that freedom is to tolerate things you might not want to hear.
That is how adults do shit.
1 UnslavedMonkey 2018-01-11
so you call people nigger and see how they react?
1 sweetholymosiah 2018-01-11
Consider words. Consider how they operate on those who are different than you. Are you even able to put yourself in another person's place? If you were, you wouldn't write this divisive excuse of a post.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
No it is because I can walk in others shoes, that I put this up. I won't hold back my words to stave off sensitive feelings. I want to harden those individuals to the reality of life. Words have no power over you nor I, though we give power to words. WE allow them sway. Why oh why is it this way. Words may move mountains indeed, they can incite revolution. They can cause tyranny. Words are powerful. But what words we give power and how that power can be used is ultimately up to the individual.
I understand full well how words can be harbinger of sadness, on how they can put a frown my face. But think for a moment why is it words can incite such feelings in me. Is it because I believe there is truth to the words. If i renounce those truths, and see no reflection of myself in those words then they could not harm me.
You want me to not share this great ability. Oh if you would walk in my shoes for but a moment. You would see, I only try to bridge the gap between you and me.
1 sweetholymosiah 2018-01-11
you describe exactly why 'nigger' was re-appropriated by black America. That doesn't excuse a white person from using that word in public. Context matters.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
I'd argue that anyone could say that word. Doesn't matter where it is at. Context be damned.
1 MiltownKBs 2018-01-11
Not how the real world works. I am white and have been called this by both friend and foe. I go places where I am the minority all the time. I will hear that word perhaps hundreds of times before I leave. If I let one slip, all hell might break loose. To me, it is about respect primarily with context also being important. But I know everyone does not think that way. To me, it is disrespectful to use it so much in my presence. But again, not everyone thinks that way. Respect should go both ways, but in this case it often doesn't. So the context is that I am white and I have no business saying that word and if I do say it in certain company, then I better be ready for what could be coming to me. Like it or not, that is the context. Plain and simple.
2 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Look at you giving this word power. Though I understand your perspective. Now imagine if you could just say that world and everyone of color that was around you didn't react in any kind of way.
What if it the response you got was nothing of agitation. No reaction at all.
Because all the black individuals that you are around realize that the word nigger. Has no reflection of themselves in it. That they won't give power to the word by reacting to it, because they could never imagine being a nigger. What is a nigger who knows it certainly isn't a black man. A nigger to me is just a word. I wish this could be true to all. So I will try my best to fight the ideology that it is cool to keep that word. To identity with it.
1 MiltownKBs 2018-01-11
I know what you are saying but I am not willing to fight that fight. Glad there are people like you who will. Like I said, you just gotta be willing to deal with what might be coming. Gotta be willing to fight that fight. Enjoyed this thread. Cheers.
2 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
I fear not the fist, for I've been broken before. I respect your decision.
Though I think if I would be able to speak before being struck I will prevail in my argument.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Your own ideology makes that word have bad connotations. DO you see black people or just people. I wonder. DO you like that one group can say a word but another can't? Isn't that odd. One word has so much power. But it is taboo. A word. Think about that. If I say nigger and elicits no response guess what happens to the power of that word. It becomes null. If everyone is okay to say nigger then guess what nigger becomes nothing but a word. If I put no emotional power in the word it holds no sway over me. It holds no sway over anyone.
But if you react to the word, it shows me that you allow that word to have power over you. I could predict how you react if I were to push further. I could make you a menacing fool if one single word pushes you one the edge.
This is what we can no longer allow to happen, it is what is causing further divide. I want people to find strength not in the color of their skin, but from within. I don't want proud black men walking around or proud white men walking around and the only reason they are proud is because they were born black or white.
What kind of pride is that. They can find nothing else in themselves to be prideful for. So they have to use their own skin color to give them self worth. It is laughable. It is appalling. It is sad. It is maddening. I will not go along with the agenda. Not any more.
Such is the time to speak out and speak loud. Renounce the propaganda. Let Freedom ring. Let MLK's dream ring true. Tolerate those with hate. Rise above it. For those filled with hate watch as it has no affect on you. Then you can flip the switch and watch them become the menacing fools.
1 Kunasroommate 2018-01-11
Cheers!!!
1 AngryD09 2018-01-11
I'm pretty white, but I've got enough minority in me that I tan up real nice when I get some sun. I don't use that word out of respect.
What if some white power asshole or some gangbanger piece of shit gets in my face and I know the one word that will get him upset is that specific word, can I use it?
The black community reappropriated it but then the sjw movement got ahold of it and used it like a fascist tool to co-opt people to their way of thinking or else face potentially violent life changing reprisals,over using a fucking word. The backlash was so huge the country elected Trump despite the fact Bannon was attached to him.
When I was coming up if a white kid called a black kid that word there might have been a fist fight. Now it holds so much weight that just using that word carries the risk of destroying both peoples lives even if a black kid calls another black kid that on a fucking school playground or let's it slip while a little drunk at a party for Christ's sake.
If it's not hate speech then what's the fucking real problem? If it is hate speech lets hear it and let someone's own words shine a light on themselves.
1 MerchantOfSargoth 2018-01-11
This is easily the dumbest shit I've read on this sub. Great job OP.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Damn I'm impressed, you must be reading some highly literate works if this is some of the dumbest shit you have read. Thanks for the complement. Next time I will aim for something more geared for your intellectual comprehension. Though I'm not sure you won't be easily impressed. Considering.
1 PenVsEraser 2018-01-11
i like the cut of your jib.
1 Blackbaby11 2018-01-11
Great post OP. I could write a whole paper on the N word but i think you summed it up perfectly here. Fuck words that people should say have power over you. Fuck building your foundation on being Black or White, be human, be men first.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Thank you, yes let us be human. The thing everyone one of us have in common. That and we share this earth.
1 AngryD09 2018-01-11
Not a single fucking upvote? You gotta be kidding me.
Op, go pro.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Yeah they are keeping it at 0 points, lets me know I'm hitting mostly the right notes.
1 AngryD09 2018-01-11
Op wrote a short story and used the shock factor of a powerful word to make a point about getting along with fellow humans despite our different experiences. I've seen a lot of other media use that word's shock factor for no other reason than to be tough or street or angsty or unnecessarily provocative and they've won fucking awards for it.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Well, yes they won awards for it because they are helping give power to the word. My attempt with this is to remove that power. To acknowledge that it has no power. To relegate the word to it's proper place.
1 Alantuktuk 2018-01-11
You had this story, but then failed miserably with your explanation. People who go around saying shit don't suddenly become less hateful-it doesn't make them "get the racism out." Free speech is great, but being a shithead is still being a shithead.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Oh but it does keep the racism out in the open not hidden from society. Do you think that if we ban a word and bar its use that it removes hate? Or does it hid that hate from society. Are we to pretend it doesn't exist?
You misunderstand, I say let them spew the hate for all to hear. We can combat the ideology of hate. With the ideology of love and compassion. With our words we can battle the hate filled.
Free speech is great, and the price of free speech is hearing things we don't want to hear. Shit heads will still be shit heads.
1 Alantuktuk 2018-01-11
Well, you're free to say all the racist shit you like, but you should expect that people will be free to call you out for talking like a piece of shit, so..go free speech!
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
But of course, we can have a dialogue and if someone think I a racist oh well. I can try to pursued them that I am not or just not let it affect me because I know I'm not. Let free speech prosper in all its glory.
1 ZubirRex 2018-01-11
Why did you ruin his profound edgelord moment?
1 Alantuktuk 2018-01-11
Ranks up there with the importance of people posting danker Ugandan hedgehog memes.
1 AreEternal 2018-01-11
Just seeing this five days later. How many views did you get on this? I just put it at one upvote. It's damn good.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
2.1k views. It is my hopes that it reached the people that needed to hear.
1 AreEternal 2018-01-11
2.1 k views and zero points means you nailed it.
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
:0 don't do to well hearing compliments. Critiques would be more beneficial.
1 AreEternal 2018-01-11
lol get over yourself. Good job man
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Thanks friend you made me smile. :)
1 JustAnotherJimbo 2018-01-11
Commenting here so i can read this again , thank you for sharing this powerful story with the community no idea why theres a lack of upboats .
1 Enok-Stroth 2018-01-11
Thank you.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
What do your delusions have have to do with the current topic?
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-01-11
I grew up surrounded by them. You have likely met one or two. Perhaps seen one as you were driving by in the ciry.