Dean Atta's words and the visuals of this video CHANGED ME! The video "Im Am Nobody's Nigger" got me thinking, it was an eye opener and it changed my initial thoughts about the word nigger. My thought was that the word was reclaimed as a normal word in ghetto societies. Living in South East San Diego it is very common to hear and say those words and find it okay. I myself dont try to use it, but sometimes it comes out, but not in a negative way, usually because of a song or with a certain group of friends i'm with. After watching the video i realized that the word nigger isn't a reclaimed word, but still a word of hate and slavery. You can blame the rappers who use it in their daily conversations, but the Headless zombies that Atta states are the people like you and me who make it "Alright" to say. I have a new view on the word nigger and nobody should be anybody's nigger.
I like how you link Atta's poetry to MLK, Jr. by alluding to King's famous speech. Allusion is an important rhetorical tool, and it's one I imagine you use when you mix music - you allude to older tunes by including a particular riff or beat into the mix. This riffing/cutting and pasting in scratch and dj music is another example of the way rhetoric is not simply for written or spoken text, but for sounds as well. Bravo, Ariz.
I like how you link Atta's poetry to MLK, Jr. by alluding to King's famous speech. Allusion is an important rhetorical tool, and it's one I imagine you use when you mix music - you allude to older tunes by including a particular riff or beat into the mix. This riffing/cutting and pasting in scratch and dj music is another example of the way rhetoric is not simply for written or spoken text, but for sounds as well. Bravo, Ariz.
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