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Miles W Mathis essay below. Anons, this dude has a treasure trove of great essay material regarding world events (some current some past). Mileswmathis.com

The Nigger Word

by Miles Mathis

First published February 7, 2022

Yes, I am going to say the word nigger a lot in this paper, though I am not once going to aim it at any real black person or black people in general. I grew up in the 1960s in Texas in a progressive family of Democrats and was taught as a child not to call black people niggers. Later that was extended to not calling them negros, either, since that was too close to nigger. I didn't really understand that one, since they had named their own organization that: the United Negro College Fund. That was a fund to help black people, so how could the word negro be bad? We were not supposed to call them colored, either, though that one mystified me in the same way. Again, they had named their own organization that: the NAACP. So how could it be bad?

I went along with it all, since I had no intention of offending them, but it seemed to me we were running out of adjectives and signifiers. At some point they changed it to Afro-Americans, then African Americans, then that went out, too, as did Black. Later it became People of Color, but that was so close to Colored I didn't see the difference. How can one be good and one be bad? At that point I considered the whole thing to be a mindstir and a waste of time and I quit paying attention. It seemed like just a lot of touchy people trying to find some silly reason to take offense. Besides, I could see that blacks still had a lot of reasons to complain: we all do. But I could see that focusing on adjectives, changing them every few years for no reason, was counterproductive. It kept eyes on piddly niggling matters and off larger matters. [And I remind you, they did exactly the same thing in the woman's movement, outlawing “lady”, then “girl”, then “female”, then “woman” itself, changing it to womyn. It got to be so that you when referring to a woman you could only point and go uh-uh-uh. The people formerly known as people.]

Eventually they even outlawed or censored the word niggard, which has no connection to nigger. What's next, censoring the country Nigeria for starting with the bad three letters? Censoring all people named Nigel?

Finally, I realized that was the point: this argument over words had been manufactured, but not by the blacks themselves. It had been manufactured by the man to insert confusion into race relations. I finally figured out that the government had infiltrated the black movements, all the way back to the Panthers and before, in order to undermine them and arrest real progress. As part of that confusion, they had manufactured these stupid squabbles over words.

They are still doing it, and today they are doing it via the Joe Rogan controversy, which has just devolved into this nigger thing again. I have never listened to Rogan, since I don't get my information from juiced drug pushers, but apparently Rogan said the word several times in the past as a word—not aimed at any real people. In discussing the n-word academically, he just said nigger instead, implying correctly that putting words off-limits as words was stupid. It is stupid. I refer you to the old “sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” thing, which we were also taught as children. Plus, you can't outlaw words, and if you do you only make them more powerful. By outlawing the word nigger, you just make it taboo, and therefore add immensely to its ability to anger. If we wanted to defuse the word, we would use it in every sentence, as I have said before. We should

call everything and everyone a nigger, while smiling and breathing deeply. Once everyone and everything is a nigger, no one is. Look at me, Mom, I'm a nigger and so is my cat and hamster and goldfish.

The reverse name-calling is also cleansing, as well as being very amusing. See this black guy on youtube saying that “dat nigger's insane” to Barry Gibb, while watching the video… continues

http://mileswmathis.com/nigger.pdf