THIS ONE WAS A BANGER! 🔥 00:00 - Discussion on African slurs, public perception 00:29 - Guests' introduction 01:37 - Banter between guests 05:29 - Influence of African-American culture's N-word in Africa 06:15 - Anecdote about N-word misunderstanding in Africa 11:18 - Debate on African vs African-American identities 14:58 - Final thoughts on N-word usage in African communities 25:32 - Personal experiences of US racial profiling shared 27:57 - Call for equal respect in cultural discussions 32:12 - Emphasis on success from community support, not appeasement 33:08 - Insights from recent Dubai trip shared 34:13 - Praise for cultural preservation in Dubai 37:30 - Personal experiences with interracial relationships, cultural disparities discussed 44:31 - Contemplation on contributing intelligently to conversation 47:29 - Discussion on various forms of racism experienced in the US 51:30 - Plea for self-respect, defense against racial disrespect 52:33 - Advocacy for self-defense, racial respect in friend groups 53:01 - Stress on importance of cultural education in the black community 1:00:11 - Criticism of African-Americans for losing their cultural identity 1:00:44 - Discussion on the decline in black homeownership 1:01:27 - Commendation of white community's preservation of cultural identity 1:02:00 - Warning to African-Americans against losing their culture 1:03:13 - Emphasis on need to support African intellectuals 1:04:12 - Conversation on the importance of acknowledging history and legacy 1:05:05 - Guest promotes his podcast, invites open conversations 1:06:07 - Host comments on power dynamics in racial integration LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE ✅
Thanks! Dr. Oshay for all you do bro. All the thought provoking issues that young Africans needs at home and abroad in bridging the divide at this crucial point of the changing of the guard, TMH continue to bless and keep you.
He did not represent the Black American viewpoint. You call us a name other than other than the name given to us by our Parents... We going to have problems. Our name caller for Africans is not broke and we know how to use it. We have a whole list.
Majority of African Americans are xenophobic racist clowns, I worked there and wanted nothing to do with Black Americans, I avoid you whenever I can. I do not really care to identify with Black Americans and I agree with your xenophobic brothers like Tariq Nasheed, we are not the same, maybe you are the same as West Africans but I am not a West African just like majority of Africans are not West Africans and so we can't really relate.
We need more open debates and talks like this. Our people are our people. Africans and Black Americans/African Americans alike. But i agree with the host, WE ALL KNOW THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED TO EACH GROUP. I agree, we know about the oppression and racism/slavery that happened. That was some real shit to say, I salute you for that. Conversations like these are needed!
I'm on the outskirts of Houston, and it's definitely not an issue. There are so many African families in our area, and I hear the kids use it sometimes. My son has African friends, and I heard them use it playing video games while on Discord. African American kids and African kids are changing the narrative. it's the adults with the issues. I was told by my son African and African american kids band together. When African American student was called the N word by a white student, all the African American and Africans rushed to the area and were looking for the person using that word in a negative way. They even edit youtube video gaming streams together and I love the bond they are building. I love this channel
Nah F that. I am Black American and I can’t stand hearing Africans say it at all. These younger kids aren’t changing a narrative, they are obviously being raised my fools.
It's a reminder of how disrespectful another of another race has mistreated a whole Continent of People. I don't care who uses it. It's wrong for us to openly call each other the N word. What one does in a private conversation is one thing, public display is another.
@@NatalieWright-cb6sv Yes, a reminder. We need reminders. Reminders provide reference. I rarely use it, my vocabulary is sufficient without it. Gratuitous usage is unsavory. But carefully placed, to provide emphasis...magical. I think the bigger issue is does the negative connotation have adverse psychological effects. Maybe. Communication is interesting. What I've learned about it is that you must know your audience.
It's easy to answer, they are not AA. There are names each group may say to each other, that's derogatory for another outside of that group to say. That's why respect for each other's culture is paramount if we are to get along. So if the majority of AA, do not like the word being thrown around by their own. You can imagine how it affects them, if one outside of the group uses it against them. Just keep the N word out your mouth and everything will be good. Peace
Big up yourself Oshay, you’re having the valuable conversations! When we used the n word as African teenagers living in Africa, it was because of the hiphop/rap influence and we didn’t have any negative intention. However when you move to America and understand what the culture is about, you really don’t want to associate with that word or even use that word because it hurt some folks.
You have a great working knowledge of African American culture and terminology...you are 100% correct in your assertions regarding the manner in which Blacks use the term 'nigga'...great analysis! That dress looks so elegant and stunning on you!
Thank you'll so much this show so much we'll needed this so much. It's so much needed. We Africans have to come together because you'll was beating in African and we was beated and still beating in America. We're coming back home please don't be afraid of us. Africans America's please relax and enjoy your new life back home with your family. A lot African Americans have been saving their money to go for safety for their families 😢yes I'm crying. It's time!
I think intention or not, we could be socially aware not to use it. My grandma who was a teacher in Nigeria told me in 2005 when my family was relocating to America to not come here saying the N word. Its really about adjusting and not making excuses, now we know , do better.
The guy with head dress has said the absolute truth about the N name in Uganda. I remember after watching many Hollywood videos as a teenager and adolescent. I used to call my name and title as N, b'se we know it is pride and identity of African American. With my trousers below my hip level. So I would say: Our African American brothers and sisters should understand is and not take it as offensive. We do it out of ignorance.
As an "African American " I can totally understand what you're saying. Believe it or not the same issue applies with us, the majority of us here don't really understand both what we're calling ourselves and why? We just do it because that's what we've been called all our lives, so we had an Intimate relationship with the name. We have mothers here who say on the regular in front of her kids say "ni99as ain't sh@t" when we leave the house somebody driving down the street and their music is saying" ni99a ni99a ni99a ni99a ni99a please, I'm treated like a fuxing desease" that's when I see my ni99a willie lynch "ni99a ! What's up?" And he says "what's up my ni99a" and then we smoke and shoot the shyx and then we hear another car riding past and it's a breaking news dam "Another nigga got murdered by the police" that's how real it is. The crazy thing don't even realize that ni99a is like Frankenstein, a thing that was put together by a mad people, and this thing doesn't have its own language, it's own mind it's own family lineage, it's own God. Their real name is Yisrael , but they are called ni99az.
@@adamf.585 Yes!!! I Love her fashion sense. She always looks so perfect Head to Toe! They seem to shut her out at times... but maybe that's just me being a manly woman from the U.S. ...
Nephew , you are telling the truth . You can't teach what you don't know . As a Savannah , Georgia - geechee/gulah NYC - educator , mathematics in particular, it has been a tremendous battle with teaching our real culture throughout my career . I have had battles more with colleagues , parents, and NYCDOE systems. than the students .
I'll put it like this. Negro comes from the Latin word "Niger", which means black. In most kingdoms of old(Axum, Persia, Khazaria, etc.) it was understood that when one was classified as "black" they were either a slave or seen as uncultured or barbaric. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that the understanding changed into what it is today which is a descriptor of melanated peoples with curly/kinky hair, a dolicocephalic skull, big lips, and a lean to skinny body type. Nobody with any type of understanding or sense of culture refers to themselves as " black" or the N-word because in the simplest of terms it means ignorant. That's why Our grandparents(U.S.A), Afro-latinos, and certain African tribes don't identify with the term "black", negro, the N-word or the like. They still have the true understanding of what it means
isn't it amazing how any other race can be proud of their existence? But we in the diaspora seem to accept the fact we're considered a "cursed" or bottom tier human group? We must be more elevated than we think for the world to tell us We are not to have joy of our being.
@@b1chronixx688 Jamaicans weren’t over in the Americas prior to the Slave trade so all Jamaicans are of African descent. The term Afro is normally applied to African descendants living in Non-Black Countries. Black Countries like Jamaica, Haiti , Saint Kitts etc is self implied.
Oshay, that was indeed a great argument at 20:00. I honestly never consider that one. Indeed they have to know, when some say we don’t know. They do know why Blacks are in the Americas (the new world), and they do know those names you’ve mentioned. So they’re frontin’. You kept it real! But Babaluka also gave a real perspective as an immigrant from the African continent. Agaba addressed the inferiority complex of self sabotage, which is a real thing as well. This was a fruitful conversation. This is build and destroy.
Can Africans use the N-word????????????What a shamefully ignorant question. Europeans used the N- word universially as a derogatory word directed toward all Black people. The term was used before the transatlatic slave trade, the 1600's!
This is clearly a very degrading word. Question is ‘ why African Americans still call each other with derogatory name” . Why don’t African Americans themselves rid themselves from this word. They actually say only African Americans can call each other this derogatory word. Drop this altogether. And African Americans themselves must stop using this derogatory word themselves. So they positively reinforce a better identity for themselves
When we look at how tribal we are in Africa, you would know how defensive we would get to defend not being part of the other tribe. Its the same logic in regards to how you know its a disrespect, same reason its created so much internal battle within nations in Africa, Rwanda for one .
The first time it was said to my brother is when we went to Nigeria. It was used by my uncle! As a positive term 😂 and my mum had to educate him on where the world originate from and and it’s not MTV 😏The N-word isn’t in my vocabulary thank god! My parents raised me well. It’s derogatory and disgusting PERIOD! I just wish AA’s would stop popularising that word. I’m glad Oshay called us out on this 😅 slavery and black history isn’t really tought in schools.
Damn, I'm born and bred in the uk, you don't think I've been called a N and my friends ain't been called a N, you talk like only black Americans had it bad.
@@enosgerRight .. The whole African continent was and is colonial territories. I’m getting tired actually. Now there’s a new group called foundational Black Americans lol . While MLk was fighting to get blacks together these doing the opposite lol 😂
Well birds of a feather, flock together. Worldwide, there are “shady people “. The “N” word is ignorance on the part of anyone that uses it. It’s not cute. Rappers need to stop using it, as well as the movies.
Hard to regulate it since we don't know who has ancestry in the US, do caribbeans get to use it? they might have been on the mainland at some point, same with canadians, they were all technically under the same gov at one point, liberians also have ancestors who were once in the US. Impossible to determine who from where.
Slaves left Africa was dropped off at different parts of the world. My ancestors are Haitian. On the way to the US they dropped them off in Haiti and different Islands around there. Same thing going on in the US was happening in the US.
Not all part of Africa practise the GRIOT culture.Please do not generalize.We need to learn more about what we have gone through.I still find it difficult being with African Americans as I feel nothing in Common with them and I am an intellectual.This 'return to Africa' is an eye opener but it is just the beginning of trying to unravel what we all went through.Was Colonization and brainwashing taught in American School neither was Slavery taught in African schools.We need to teach each other in our own way.
I am Nigerian and I grew up in the 90s with a boy and his siblings whose last name have the sound of the N word in between the syllabus of their last name. They gave themselves the N word as their nickname 😐😐. They used it then to sound " cool" . We didn't know the meaning of the name at the time. 😅
Great episode. Also, the guy who was given permission to say the n-word is a well known racist and his name is Nick Fuentes. I watched a little more from the podcast and one of the women there ended up twerking on him. I'm glad they got it right at Kenganda
For others the n word is just trendy it sounds cool. Black Americans have heard our grandparents use that word. That being said collectively we must stop using it.
Am Ugandan and when I moved abroad to the US, in high school I used the N word with a brother, and we just smiled it out since I thought it was cool. He had dreads and everything. After a little bit of US history and world history I stopped. I initially thought the guy was from another African country though, but I kept wondering why he had a strange accent.
It goes to show you that the negativity in this world controls most of our thinking . The parents have less influence on their children than the media . Train up a child in the Lord & when he is old , he will not depart .Tell the truth, Oshay, about the sell -outs because they are filled with self - hate .
That’s 2 different races of people. One is made and bread in America through the horrible phase of slavery. The color may be about the same but totally different histories.
Oshay - unfortunately you giving people a lot of credit for what they may not know. Do you know the percentage of black Africans who live in villages and do not have televisions. Even the ones living in the cities it is only a small percentage who have access to things like MTV, BET etc. I think its a very small percentage of Africans who know that much about slavery especially outside of the areas where slavery was done i.e West Africa, Congo , Angola, Cameroun etc Africans are ignorant of the diaspora experience just as much as most African Americans have no clue about Africa. If we are going to ask for accountability it has to be across the board. You talking about they know but you have a movement of African Americans saying they are native to the Americas. They have thousands upon thousands of libraries, universities and colleges in the US and they are still ignorant and you want to hold Africans to a higher standard. Makes no sense. While at it, I have attended college in the US and I have never uttered the N word once in my life and will not accept anyone addressing me that way either. Its some twisted logic that a group of people are so offended by anyone esle using a word that they themselves casually use. Jews would never use any word that denigrates them as a group as a term of endearment. Also stop using tribes etc so casually. Africans are trying to unite, lets elevate blackness and being African rather than emphasizing narrow interests like tribes. Many wars, a genocide has happened due to people emphasizing tribes, lets stop it. We cant be mad about the use of the N word and come on the continent and keep stressing tribes as if Africans ask each other what tribe we are from when we interact. Most people dont care about your tribe, what matters is are you are a good or bad person not some group affiliation.
@@bella-qz6ls African Americans come to the continent for less than a decade and all of a sudden becomes experts in everything. Even when you are born in Africa and live overseas there are things and nuances you miss out from not being on the ground. Also, majority of black Africans still live in villages and not cities and more often than not do not have a tv so have zero clue about African Americans let alone knowing anything about other Africans except the ones in neighboring countries.
Hello Nephew Oshay & how are you doing ? The " N " word should not be used by anybody. How can any denigrating word or term be glorified to further. decrease our Afrikan greatness . We should be proud people . Self -respect & self - love is needed in our community badly. Why don't we use these terms to describe others like : crackers , daego, po-lock , spick , hymie , nazi, etc., Why don't we call other races or nationalities tge " N " word ? Your Savannah , Georgia - auntie - forever . A fool is a fool regardless of their age , education, etc.,
And U will never by able to get our non Black Diaspora to understand this Oshey.. They will never understand because they never actually lived it as Black Ppl..
If American blacks have such a problem with the "N-Word", then perhaps they should stop using it. Seriously. Stop using the word. The word didn't become popular until the late 80s and early 90s when rap (especially the gangsta stuff) blew up. Black Americans who claim to be bothered by that term need to address their fellow "FBAs".
@wewuzwolves4428 what does that have to do with a dusty musty african using it? Do they not have anything else to do? They have so much to work on before they can accomplish what we did fresh out of enslavement. And they are worried about what FBAs say to one another. A pathetic people. Oshay and his "africans"
As soon as visitors to your country discover offensive and derogatory terms used against your particular tribe, because your urban music culture just ain't that popular, I want you to keep that energy when they start using them. Do look at them as ignorant when or if you try to explain that not all of you use that offensive language.
@@Silverbackugx exactly. Man do you really think these people (africans) come from us? They don't act any different than what we have always been dealing with. I get oshay dusty azz needs views so he will have this dumb conversation with people who will more than likely never encounter our people. But throughout their whole african continent they are making videos about this very same question. They are not asking how can do trade, what africans and africa can offer the ones of us who feel sorry enough to make that journey, to assist them. There is not one benifit of fking with these backward people. Africans saying the word is not different than whites or asians or Latinos. Because none of them are us or apart of us.
Actually the word was always popular in your communities, living rooms and workplace. Thats mainly the reason why we decided to take the word back, freak it and make it ours. Im an 80's babe and a 90's Teen, cops in my community said the word nigger more times a day than todays hip hop artists, so there goes your theory out the window right there. In the 90's the word "N.I.G.G.A" stood for Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished, hence you hearing us use it in 90's... We weren't calling ourselves the "N" word that you allgrew up hearing, it was completely different. But now that I'm older I realize the word shouldn't be used anymore because of its roots, and its so easily used and said today by EVERY AND ANYBODY. If you look on any social media platform, what do you see? Nigga being used by everyone, but you can't say or use any other racial slurs towards any other nationality or group without being penalized or suspended of your account and the so-called "community standards" make me laugh.... I say that to say this, you never had a problem with the word in the past when it was only your people using it, so why tell us to stop using it if we're so offended.... You're practically raising your hand saying look at me, I'm a racist. Or hey why can't I say it to you then??? Think about it. But enjoy your day.
Africans in America say the N word all the time. For example, Nipsey Hussle and Wole said the N word. Caribbean people also say the N word. For example Notorious BIG. Many Latino even say it, for example Cardi B and Big Pun. Mixed people even say it as well. The whole doesn't have any much sophistication beyond "don't say it if you're white. " Hate to say it but that's the truth.
When I arrived at the African regent hotel in Accra, Ghana. As soon I got out the Uber. A local Ghanaian woman said “NIGGA” very loud trying to get my attention to sell me something.
@@albah289 I personally don't use it. But I will make it my business today to go find out the negative, derogatory, and demeaning words that Ugandans call each other and I will happily refer to anyone who uses the N word as whatever I can learn with the same smiling ignorance that they use references to my people. If you want to play who can be the most ignorant asshole, then you have the right one. 50 cent is NOT the KING of PETTY
I came to America in 2013 and I got to Learn what the n word in 2017 🤦🏽♀️but we Africans associate the n word to being cool if you don’t know it’s history.
THIS ONE WAS A BANGER! 🔥
00:00 - Discussion on African slurs, public perception
00:29 - Guests' introduction
01:37 - Banter between guests
05:29 - Influence of African-American culture's N-word in Africa
06:15 - Anecdote about N-word misunderstanding in Africa
11:18 - Debate on African vs African-American identities
14:58 - Final thoughts on N-word usage in African communities
25:32 - Personal experiences of US racial profiling shared
27:57 - Call for equal respect in cultural discussions
32:12 - Emphasis on success from community support, not appeasement
33:08 - Insights from recent Dubai trip shared
34:13 - Praise for cultural preservation in Dubai
37:30 - Personal experiences with interracial relationships, cultural disparities discussed
44:31 - Contemplation on contributing intelligently to conversation
47:29 - Discussion on various forms of racism experienced in the US
51:30 - Plea for self-respect, defense against racial disrespect
52:33 - Advocacy for self-defense, racial respect in friend groups
53:01 - Stress on importance of cultural education in the black community
1:00:11 - Criticism of African-Americans for losing their cultural identity
1:00:44 - Discussion on the decline in black homeownership
1:01:27 - Commendation of white community's preservation of cultural identity
1:02:00 - Warning to African-Americans against losing their culture
1:03:13 - Emphasis on need to support African intellectuals
1:04:12 - Conversation on the importance of acknowledging history and legacy
1:05:05 - Guest promotes his podcast, invites open conversations
1:06:07 - Host comments on power dynamics in racial integration
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How did you guys fail to address the relationship between Niger and Nigeria with the term Nigg$ or Ni$$er?
This is best and only truly Pan-African podcast on the internet right now. We've got to get this show to a million subs!
Yes
@@adamf.585 AGREED
Let me get up in these comments early. No one should be using that filthy word.
Exactly!! So many of us sick and tired of many of our people saying/using it but get upset when other people used it.
Agreed.
And calling black women the B word there’s so much backwards thinking
Especially if you didn’t grow up in America. If you grew up outside of America, your use of the word is forced to emulate a culture that isn’t yours
@@earlem9771 So to you N\ word is a culture
Thanks! Dr. Oshay for all you do bro. All the thought provoking issues that young Africans needs at home and abroad in bridging the divide at this crucial point of the changing of the guard, TMH continue to bless and keep you.
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This was on point!! Oshay👏🏾👑 you represented the African American viewpoint very well!
He did not represent the Black American viewpoint. You call us a name other than other than the name given to us by our Parents... We going to have problems. Our name caller for Africans is not broke and we know how to use it. We have a whole list.
Majority of African Americans are xenophobic racist clowns, I worked there and wanted nothing to do with Black Americans, I avoid you whenever I can. I do not really care to identify with Black Americans and I agree with your xenophobic brothers like Tariq Nasheed, we are not the same, maybe you are the same as West Africans but I am not a West African just like majority of Africans are not West Africans and so we can't really relate.
Thank you Oshea! We all know what happened to each other. It needed to be said.
We need more open debates and talks like this. Our people are our people. Africans and Black Americans/African Americans alike.
But i agree with the host, WE ALL KNOW THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED TO EACH GROUP. I agree, we know about the oppression and racism/slavery that happened. That was some real shit to say, I salute you for that. Conversations like these are needed!
Thank you Dr. Oshay for bringing the issues that will straighten and strengthen the spines of our black family.
This would be a good conversation for the diaspora in western countries like Canada and the UK
I'm on the outskirts of Houston, and it's definitely not an issue. There are so many African families in our area, and I hear the kids use it sometimes. My son has African friends, and I heard them use it playing video games while on Discord. African American kids and African kids are changing the narrative. it's the adults with the issues. I was told by my son African and African american kids band together. When African American student was called the N word by a white student, all the African American and Africans rushed to the area and were looking for the person using that word in a negative way. They even edit youtube video gaming streams together and I love the bond they are building. I love this channel
I love too see that in my area all the white kids bonded together and was looking for a black kid that called one white kid an ugly name
Nah F that. I am Black American and I can’t stand hearing Africans say it at all. These younger kids aren’t changing a narrative, they are obviously being raised my fools.
I hate that word, I cringe everytime I hear it. Some Black Folk use it so freely, even in these Podcast. It disgusting. I wish we would stop using it.
I can empathize with you, but the way we use it is sublime. It transcends verbal communication. It epitomizes an experience.
It's a reminder of how disrespectful another of another race has mistreated a whole Continent of People. I don't care who uses it. It's wrong for us to openly call each other the N word. What one does in a private conversation is one thing, public display is another.
@@NatalieWright-cb6sv Yes, a reminder. We need reminders. Reminders provide reference.
I rarely use it, my vocabulary is sufficient without it. Gratuitous usage is unsavory. But carefully placed, to provide emphasis...magical. I think the bigger issue is does the negative connotation have adverse psychological effects. Maybe. Communication is interesting. What I've learned about it is that you must know your audience.
It's a mindset. Also you can't fight the world and police folks speech, I don't use in my vocabulary.
It's easy to answer, they are not AA. There are names each group may say to each other, that's derogatory for another outside of that group to say. That's why respect for each other's culture is paramount if we are to get along. So if the majority of AA, do not like the word being thrown around by their own. You can imagine how it affects them, if one outside of the group uses it against them. Just keep the N word out your mouth and everything will be good. Peace
Big up yourself Oshay, you’re having the valuable conversations!
When we used the n word as African teenagers living in Africa, it was because of the hiphop/rap influence and we didn’t have any negative intention.
However when you move to America and understand what the culture is about, you really don’t want to associate with that word or even use that word because it hurt some folks.
The 🐐 is preaching today. I LOVE the passion for our people to be better and be esthetic to see and be around each other!
You have a great working knowledge of African American culture and terminology...you are 100% correct in your assertions regarding the manner in which Blacks use the term 'nigga'...great analysis! That dress looks so elegant and stunning on you!
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OSHAY THANKS FOR ALL YOU SPOKE ON. YOU REPRESENTED US(BLACK AMERICANS)WELL.
THAT BLACK AMERICAN SPIRIT IN YOU WENT "SUPER SAYAN"
He is with Ugandans 😜
Oshay my man, This was the BEST show EVER! Love the new guy by the way! 😀👍🏾
Yeah...a Nigga is getting hirrer!
Easily the most minute issue discussed that I've seen so far
Sorry maybe you come show us how its done
@@Kenganda This channel is my favorite talk show thus far, but this is a non issue ultimately
@@yadig.how is it not an issue ? self hate isn’t an issue really ? LOL okay
Your comment is easily the most minute that I've read this far
@@yadig.@YADIG..You need to dig deeper to find the depth of the conversation and yourself.
Oshay is the Man, he hit hard and don't take no Names.
I love it!
Kenganda showed up once again. Great podcast brothers !
Thankfully one real Brother is on this podcast.
Oshay...you nailed this one!! Your perspective was 100%! Keep telling the truth!
Oshay on fire today 👏
Thanks guys 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾we really appreciate 🙏🏾well done.
Excellent Presentation, Oshay! This needed to be addressed!😎
Thank you so much for keeping it 💯💯. Throwing stones but hiding their hands 🤷🏽♂️
In Africa, Saying "My N- is just like saying "My Guy"
No Context.
I'm an "African American " and I'm offended when other African Americans use that word around me depending on the context of course.
When people from the north or west coast visit and they use it in every sentence it annoys the crap out of me.
@@raymonds7492 absolutely!
Thank you'll so much this show so much we'll needed this so much. It's so much needed. We Africans have to come together because you'll was beating in African and we was beated and still beating in America. We're coming back home please don't be afraid of us. Africans America's please relax and enjoy your new life back home with your family. A lot African Americans have been saving their money to go for safety for their families 😢yes I'm crying. It's time!
I think intention or not, we could be socially aware not to use it. My grandma who was a teacher in Nigeria told me in 2005 when my family was relocating to America to not come here saying the N word. Its really about adjusting and not making excuses, now we know , do better.
The n word just needs to go. There's nothing good about accepting a slur that another group put on you.
Your staff must be butter because you are definitely on a roll these recent shows. FIRE!
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Here they think that that is cool(they think it's hip-hop culture)
Thanks again for another great podcast. They have compelled so much conversation among my peers since we began to listen. Please keep coming!
The guy with head dress has said the absolute truth about the N name in Uganda. I remember after watching many Hollywood videos as a teenager and adolescent. I used to call my name and title as N, b'se we know it is pride and identity of African American. With my trousers below my hip level. So I would say: Our African American brothers and sisters should understand is and not take it as offensive. We do it out of ignorance.
As an "African American " I can totally understand what you're saying. Believe it or not the same issue applies with us, the majority of us here don't really understand both what we're calling ourselves and why? We just do it because that's what we've been called all our lives, so we had an Intimate relationship with the name. We have mothers here who say on the regular in front of her kids say "ni99as ain't sh@t" when we leave the house somebody driving down the street and their music is saying" ni99a ni99a ni99a ni99a ni99a please, I'm treated like a fuxing desease" that's when I see my ni99a willie lynch "ni99a ! What's up?" And he says "what's up my ni99a" and then we smoke and shoot the shyx and then we hear another car riding past and it's a breaking news dam "Another nigga got murdered by the police" that's how real it is. The crazy thing don't even realize that ni99a is like Frankenstein, a thing that was put together by a mad people, and this thing doesn't have its own language, it's own mind it's own family lineage, it's own God. Their real name is Yisrael , but they are called ni99az.
Jonita is too sweet! 17:16 So True, we (in the U.S.) have responsibility.
She should be in fashion and arts Podcast, This program is so boring for her😂😅
@@adamf.585 Yes!!! I Love her fashion sense. She always looks so perfect Head to Toe! They seem to shut her out at times... but maybe that's just me being a manly woman from the U.S. ...
Make no mistake. She'll get feminist on you real quick.
@@switzjon8405
Nephew , you are telling the truth . You can't teach what you don't know . As a Savannah , Georgia - geechee/gulah NYC - educator , mathematics in particular, it has been a tremendous battle with teaching our real culture throughout my career . I have had battles more with colleagues , parents, and NYCDOE systems. than the students .
Wow this makes so much sense. I’m so happy I found the podcast!
Brother love saying diaspora …he’s says it so much it’s like he learned a new word.
Oshay, most of the women on the Fresh and Fit podcast were regular African Americans.
Oshay must have been on that Hennessy in this episode! 🤣🤣
🤣 it kinda sounded like it
So are we to believe that Africans and African Americans can’t find a word to call each other that’s not racist and offensive? This is sooo very sad.
Oshay is 🔥 today
Bruh, nobody should be using the word. It should ALWAYS be seen as an insult - but it ain’t. This video title is absolutely reaching.
The people needed to here this ❤
The look on Oshay’s face @ 17:03 was like “yeah I got ‘em “ 😂
serious conversation...love the passion!
Nice. Damn this conversation is deep, I hope there is part 2
context means everything
Love That Discussion, More Please 😌
I'll put it like this. Negro comes from the Latin word "Niger", which means black. In most kingdoms of old(Axum, Persia, Khazaria, etc.) it was understood that when one was classified as "black" they were either a slave or seen as uncultured or barbaric. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that the understanding changed into what it is today which is a descriptor of melanated peoples with curly/kinky hair, a dolicocephalic skull, big lips, and a lean to skinny body type. Nobody with any type of understanding or sense of culture refers to themselves as " black" or the N-word because in the simplest of terms it means ignorant. That's why Our grandparents(U.S.A), Afro-latinos, and certain African tribes don't identify with the term "black", negro, the N-word or the like. They still have the true understanding of what it means
isn't it amazing how any other race can be proud of their existence? But we in the diaspora seem to accept the fact we're considered a "cursed" or bottom tier human group? We must be more elevated than we think for the world to tell us We are not to have joy of our being.
Oshay spittin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I didn’t know Babaluku was so deep
I find that word offensive.
Dr Julie says hello
@@Kenganda hello to her too!
i agree 💯
I’m sorry for my ignorance but what is an “Afro” Jamaican?
@@b1chronixx688 Jamaicans weren’t over in the Americas prior to the Slave trade so all Jamaicans are of African descent. The term Afro is normally applied to African descendants living in Non-Black Countries. Black Countries like Jamaica, Haiti , Saint Kitts etc is self implied.
Oshay, that was indeed a great argument at 20:00. I honestly never consider that one.
Indeed they have to know, when some say we don’t know. They do know why Blacks are in the Americas (the new world), and they do know those names you’ve mentioned. So they’re frontin’. You kept it real!
But Babaluka also gave a real perspective as an immigrant from the African continent. Agaba addressed the inferiority complex of self sabotage, which is a real thing as well.
This was a fruitful conversation.
This is build and destroy.
Nah!!! They need to shut TF up with that shyt. I can’t stand it!
Can Africans use the N-word????????????What a shamefully ignorant question. Europeans used the N- word universially as a derogatory word directed toward all Black people. The term was used before the transatlatic slave trade, the 1600's!
Great show..Love the honesty!!
Divide and conqure is alive and kicking!!!
This is clearly a very degrading word. Question is ‘ why African Americans still call each other with derogatory name” . Why don’t African Americans themselves rid themselves from this word. They actually say only African Americans can call each other this derogatory word. Drop this altogether. And African Americans themselves must stop using this derogatory word themselves. So they positively reinforce a better identity for themselves
“African booty scratcher” was actually a term they used on slaves when slave owners would make the slaves literally scratcher their booty for them.
The story time music made me relaxed
Powerful commentary 💪🏾,💥🔥👍🏽‼️
No one should be using that word!
When we look at how tribal we are in Africa, you would know how defensive we would get to defend not being part of the other tribe. Its the same logic in regards to how you know its a disrespect, same reason its created so much internal battle within nations in Africa, Rwanda for one .
Oshay speaking facts
10:46 the best story time music moment. When that music set the mood.
The first time it was said to my brother is when we went to Nigeria. It was used by my uncle! As a positive term 😂 and my mum had to educate him on where the world originate from and and it’s not MTV 😏The N-word isn’t in my vocabulary thank god! My parents raised me well. It’s derogatory and disgusting PERIOD! I just wish AA’s would stop popularising that word. I’m glad Oshay called us out on this 😅 slavery and black history isn’t really tought in schools.
I’m sorry … having lived in Africa and Europe… they know exactly what that word means… I don’t care if u live under a rock I know what that word means
Damn, I'm born and bred in the uk, you don't think I've been called a N and my friends ain't been called a N, you talk like only black Americans had it bad.
@@enosgerRight .. The whole African continent was and is colonial territories. I’m getting tired actually. Now there’s a new group called foundational Black Americans lol .
While MLk was fighting to get blacks together these doing the opposite lol 😂
@@coldhardtruth333 White's are what named the continent Africa.
I thought the N word is used to insult all black people, whether on the continent or the diaspora
We need an episode on Tunisia and what happens to Africans there
Well birds of a feather, flock together. Worldwide, there are “shady people “. The “N” word is ignorance on the part of anyone that uses it.
It’s not cute. Rappers need to stop using it, as well as the movies.
Uh oh they done got Oshay angry 😂
I love this podcast 💯🔥
Hard to regulate it since we don't know who has ancestry in the US, do caribbeans get to use it? they might have been on the mainland at some point, same with canadians, they were all technically under the same gov at one point, liberians also have ancestors who were once in the US. Impossible to determine who from where.
Slaves left Africa was dropped off at different parts of the world. My ancestors are Haitian. On the way to the US they dropped them off in Haiti and different Islands around there. Same thing going on in the US was happening in the US.
No
Great show. Do you have another site I can go to if UA-cam shut you down?????? Another platform
African Americans should stop using the M word.Period!!!It is so confusing for other black people.
Well....what's the "M" word??? 😂 as a black American, I'm confused😮😢😂 maybe we should all stop using the "M" word (whatever that means)🤔🙄😔 damn😢
Nope, i dont use it...
Not all part of Africa practise the GRIOT culture.Please do not generalize.We need to learn more about what we have gone through.I still find it difficult being with African Americans as I feel nothing in Common with them and I am an intellectual.This 'return to Africa' is an eye opener but it is just the beginning of trying to unravel what we all went through.Was Colonization and brainwashing taught in American School neither was Slavery taught in African schools.We need to teach each other in our own way.
what makes you an intellectual sir? LOL...please explain your credentials 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am Nigerian and I grew up in the 90s with a boy and his siblings whose last name have the sound of the N word in between the syllabus of their last name. They gave themselves the N word as their nickname 😐😐. They used it then to sound " cool" . We didn't know the meaning of the name at the time. 😅
Powerful Show!
Great episode. Also, the guy who was given permission to say the n-word is a well known racist and his name is Nick Fuentes. I watched a little more from the podcast and one of the women there ended up twerking on him. I'm glad they got it right at Kenganda
O’SHEA DUKE JACKSON!!!!!!! YOU GO LIVE LONG!!
1:02 They never forget so why do we?
For others the n word is just trendy it sounds cool. Black Americans have heard our grandparents use that word. That being said collectively we must stop using it.
This conversation highlights the negative impacts of integration, despite not being about integration.
Am Ugandan and when I moved abroad to the US, in high school I used the N word with a brother, and we just smiled it out since I thought it was cool. He had dreads and everything. After a little bit of US history and world history I stopped. I initially thought the guy was from another African country though, but I kept wondering why he had a strange accent.
It goes to show you that the negativity in this world controls most of our thinking . The parents have less influence on their children than the media . Train up a child in the Lord & when he is old , he will not depart .Tell the truth, Oshay, about the sell -outs because they are filled with self - hate .
That’s 2 different races of people. One is made and bread in America through the horrible phase of slavery. The color may be about the same but totally different histories.
Ironically, the Carlton Banks actor is Trinidadian
The B, N and ghetto should go away honestly. My head hurts when I hear this words.
Oshay - unfortunately you giving people a lot of credit for what they may not know. Do you know the percentage of black Africans who live in villages and do not have televisions. Even the ones living in the cities it is only a small percentage who have access to things like MTV, BET etc. I think its a very small percentage of Africans who know that much about slavery especially outside of the areas where slavery was done i.e West Africa, Congo , Angola, Cameroun etc
Africans are ignorant of the diaspora experience just as much as most African Americans have no clue about Africa. If we are going to ask for accountability it has to be across the board. You talking about they know but you have a movement of African Americans saying they are native to the Americas. They have thousands upon thousands of libraries, universities and colleges in the US and they are still ignorant and you want to hold Africans to a higher standard. Makes no sense. While at it, I have attended college in the US and I have never uttered the N word once in my life and will not accept anyone addressing me that way either. Its some twisted logic that a group of people are so offended by anyone esle using a word that they themselves casually use. Jews would never use any word that denigrates them as a group as a term of endearment.
Also stop using tribes etc so casually. Africans are trying to unite, lets elevate blackness and being African rather than emphasizing narrow interests like tribes. Many wars, a genocide has happened due to people emphasizing tribes, lets stop it. We cant be mad about the use of the N word and come on the continent and keep stressing tribes as if Africans ask each other what tribe we are from when we interact. Most people dont care about your tribe, what matters is are you are a good or bad person not some group affiliation.
Some Africans esp in the villages don't even know there r black ppl in America 🥴
@@bella-qz6ls African Americans come to the continent for less than a decade and all of a sudden becomes experts in everything. Even when you are born in Africa and live overseas there are things and nuances you miss out from not being on the ground. Also, majority of black Africans still live in villages and not cities and more often than not do not have a tv so have zero clue about African Americans let alone knowing anything about other Africans except the ones in neighboring countries.
African Americans making coin doing it in hip-hop songs. Other AAs then pay to listen to that but get upset when other black people use the word.
Hello Nephew Oshay & how are you doing ? The " N " word should not be used by anybody. How can any denigrating word or term be glorified to further. decrease our Afrikan greatness . We should be proud people . Self -respect & self - love is needed in our community badly. Why don't we use these terms to describe others like : crackers , daego, po-lock , spick , hymie , nazi, etc., Why don't we call other races or nationalities tge " N " word ? Your Savannah , Georgia - auntie - forever . A fool is a fool regardless of their age , education, etc.,
And U will never by able to get our non Black Diaspora to understand this Oshey.. They will never understand because they never actually lived it as Black Ppl..
If American blacks have such a problem with the "N-Word", then perhaps they should stop using it. Seriously. Stop using the word. The word didn't become popular until the late 80s and early 90s when rap (especially the gangsta stuff) blew up. Black Americans who claim to be bothered by that term need to address their fellow "FBAs".
@wewuzwolves4428 what does that have to do with a dusty musty african using it? Do they not have anything else to do? They have so much to work on before they can accomplish what we did fresh out of enslavement. And they are worried about what FBAs say to one another. A pathetic people. Oshay and his "africans"
As soon as visitors to your country discover offensive and derogatory terms used against your particular tribe, because your urban music culture just ain't that popular, I want you to keep that energy when they start using them. Do look at them as ignorant when or if you try to explain that not all of you use that offensive language.
@@Silverbackugx exactly. Man do you really think these people (africans) come from us? They don't act any different than what we have always been dealing with. I get oshay dusty azz needs views so he will have this dumb conversation with people who will more than likely never encounter our people. But throughout their whole african continent they are making videos about this very same question. They are not asking how can do trade, what africans and africa can offer the ones of us who feel sorry enough to make that journey, to assist them. There is not one benifit of fking with these backward people. Africans saying the word is not different than whites or asians or Latinos. Because none of them are us or apart of us.
No lies told
Actually the word was always popular in your communities, living rooms and workplace. Thats mainly the reason why we decided to take the word back, freak it and make it ours. Im an 80's babe and a 90's Teen, cops in my community said the word nigger more times a day than todays hip hop artists, so there goes your theory out the window right there.
In the 90's the word "N.I.G.G.A" stood for Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished, hence you hearing us use it in 90's... We weren't calling ourselves the "N" word that you allgrew up hearing, it was completely different. But now that I'm older I realize the word shouldn't be used anymore because of its roots, and its so easily used and said today by EVERY AND ANYBODY.
If you look on any social media platform, what do you see? Nigga being used by everyone, but you can't say or use any other racial slurs towards any other nationality or group without being penalized or suspended of your account and the so-called "community standards" make me laugh.... I say that to say this, you never had a problem with the word in the past when it was only your people using it, so why tell us to stop using it if we're so offended.... You're practically raising your hand saying look at me, I'm a racist. Or hey why can't I say it to you then??? Think about it. But enjoy your day.
# herein Uganda
Jonita- "The N people" 😂
Africans in America say the N word all the time. For example, Nipsey Hussle and Wole said the N word.
Caribbean people also say the N word. For example Notorious BIG.
Many Latino even say it, for example Cardi B and Big Pun.
Mixed people even say it as well.
The whole doesn't have any much sophistication beyond "don't say it if you're white. "
Hate to say it but that's the truth.
When I arrived at the African regent hotel in Accra, Ghana. As soon I got out the Uber. A local Ghanaian woman said “NIGGA” very loud trying to get my attention to sell me something.
The short answer is NO, it is a very offensive word and immediately lowers the percieved intellectual level of the user.
Stop using it then, my friend
@@albah289 I personally don't use it. But I will make it my business today to go find out the negative, derogatory, and demeaning words that Ugandans call each other and I will happily refer to anyone who uses the N word as whatever I can learn with the same smiling ignorance that they use references to my people. If you want to play who can be the most ignorant asshole, then you have the right one. 50 cent is NOT the KING of PETTY
Nigga nigga Nigga
I came to America in 2013 and I got to Learn what the n word in 2017 🤦🏽♀️but we Africans associate the n word to being cool if you don’t know it’s history.
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