What word makes you cringe when you hear it?

@bijouxbroussard 🤗 agreed

@bijouxbroussard What really surprises me, is that between African-American men, it’s almost come to to mean a sign of affection.???

@CereBellum that's the "hood" mentality but not all of us are like that it's just plain ignorance

@SW-User Thanks for qualifying that. I really had no idea what they were thinking.

@CereBellum black people fail to realize that until we stop calling ourselves that word it gives other people the right to

@SW-User Oh Hell NO! Not even in my vocabulary.

@CereBellum it's a double edged sword i see why other races use the word but it is still wrong

@SW-User [b]Absolutely right[/b]. It angers me when people like Ice Cube, who folks take seriously, have the nerve to get angry when someone white says it by saying, “it’s [b]our[/b] word, now”. It’s [b]not[/b] our word, and it can’t be, as long as groups like the KKK are still using it. And [b]why[/b] would we even want to own a word that has historically degraded us ? I remember when people [b]thought[/b] “taking back” the word would “remove the power”. We cannot take back what was never ours. And obviously the power persists. Some black people horribly miscalculated there.