Thread:SyzygySoldier/@comment-5836810-20130729100513/@comment-5836810-20130729101824

No matter what color you are, Kendrick sees things as they are.

It’s interesting he follows the proclamation “fuck your ethnicity” with the word “nigga”, a word with a tragic history of oppression behind it that rap has tried to reclaim for a long time. Even though Kendrick Lamar is addressing people of every ethnicity, he is taking meaning out of the word “nigga” and making everybody equal in his mind.



Since Kendrick sees everybody as a “nigga” he sees everybody as the same person and does not discriminate. He’s not only using the language of his hip hop peers but of the oppressors of his people to thrust a proverbial middle finger at racism.



His use of the word “ethnicity” also suggests that he is eloquent and educated, another affront to the racist stereotype of the uneducated African-American man.