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Is Everyone Saying “N***a” Now?

Is Everyone Saying “N***a” Now?

“If you having a good time, I want you to say, ‘Hell yeah, niggaaaaaaaaaa!” “Hell yeah, niggaaaaaaaaaa!” the crowd screamed back at Lil Wayne. I scanned the stadium of concert goers: a sea of young, white and light faces surrounded me, bopping their heads to the beat, hip-hop hands swaying in the air, phone cameras recording and repeating at Lil Wayne’s command,

Helllllll yeah, niggaaaaaaaaa!!
I looked over at my friend, who, like me, hadn’t joined the crowd.

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What the Confederate Flag Symbolizes to Me

What the Confederate Flag Symbolizes to Me

It’s 2014 and people are still squabbling over the meaning of the Confederate Flag. Currently, the flag is a topic of contention in a Virginia town, where an “activist group” raised the Flag on a 90-foot tall pole on private property, visible from a freeway. According to an article from The Washington Post, one of the activists from the Virginia Flaggers, shared his perspective:

when he sees the giant flag along the interstate he feels pride and reverence

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