I have an idea: why don’t we start our own new slang? When ever we want to be extra cool & use an expression that comes straight from the ‘hood or some new gangsta rap song, we follow it up with “no nigga.” For example “Hey, Asmonet!! What’s the haps, my biz-nitch?? Yo, that new ipod of yours is the shiz-nit, be-atch! Totally whack!!—No nigga.”
Or if I wanted to be sure I wasn’t being associated w/ white trash, but I still wanted to go watch me some NASCAR, I could say “Hey, BillyBobTaoSan, what say you & me head on down to the track today and watch us a lil’ racin? Let’s pick up a caser a Milwaukee’s Best Light and a carton a GPCs on the way—an’ we’ll have a helluva time!! Maybe we can even fin’ some good ol’ girl to flash us her tig ol’ bitties!! Hooo-weee, I’m tellin’ ya son, if’n that thar don’t sound like the most perfectest day unner God’s creatshun, I’ll be a coon’s ass!! Hooo-dog!!! Let’s git!!! No cracka.”
How do you think that would go over?
In all seriousness, maybe there is something to that line of thought. Maybe the more we use these kinds of words, the less powerful they become, and eventually their meaning changes altogether or they just fade away. I mean, let’s just make ‘em so ridiculous, so absolutely over the top, that when ever some jack-ass actually uses the words w/ the intention to hurt someone else, we’ll all just look at each other, then look at him and then just laugh!. B/c, regardless of the small differences of opinions shown on this thread, not one person has come out in favor of intentionally trying to hurt another person, and that of course is where the real problem lies.
Anyway, I’m sure it would never work—just thinking out loud here. Guess we’ll just have to give it a couple hundred years. And of course by then we’ll have a whole new set of words that are considered offensive. After all, language is constantly changing…
Later, my fluthas…