[Gypsy Nirvana]

Yes...well it's a funny old world....full of funny old words.......and sometimes you come across questions that you might need help on answering...

...Just recently a member of this site objected to the word 'WIGGA'....saying that it was a racist slur and this word should not be on this site.....

....I have not much of an oppinion on this and am not usually very politically correct....so I thought that I should open this vote/debate to the membership to see what the response might be...

Wigger...

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German "Wiggers"A Wigger (or Wigga) is a stereotype of a Caucasian person who dresses, speaks, or otherwise behaves in a manner that is stereotypically associated with certain aspects of African-American or Caribbean culture.

For example, a wigger might speak in ebonics, or closely follow hip hop fashion. The term is a portmanteau combining the words "white" and "nigger", or "wannabe" and "nigger", and is associated with cultural appropriation, like "nigga". The term wigger is generally considered pejorative , and need not apply to all white people involved in African-American culture.

Interpretations of the trend
According to James Toback, the director of Black and White, the 1950s incarnation of this concept, the white Negro, rejected his or her own "white culture", whereas the contemporary wigger embodies it:

The wiggers are the central white culture; there is no white culture that they’re countering anymore.
However, a 2004 report produced by marketing agency TRBI in the UK argues that white youth's infatuation with black culture is a form of rebellion:

... today many mainstream adults find black music and culture inaccessible and shocking. Hip-hop culture represents a genuinely rebellious voice.
Responses to the wigger stereotype vary. Some so-called wiggers are derided for being affluent white youths who " a little bit too hard" to adopt an identity at odds with their privileged upbringings. Others regard the merging of black culture into the mainstream of "white culture" as an inevitable consequence of the hold black music and urban culture have on popular culture in the West.

Celebrities and media characterization
"Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" by The Offspring is a famous song about wigger culture . It describes a "wannabe" white man who attempts (and humorously fails) to integrate into black culture.
In his song "The Way I Am", Eminem describes the characterizations of him as a wigger. He claims they come from "cocky caucasians" who think he is "some wigger who just tries to be black cause I talk with an accent, and grab on my balls." Note the use of "caucasians", suggesting that these accusations come mainly from the white community, rather than the black community.
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G character is a critically acclaimed caricature of a wigger, his catchphrase being "Is it cos I is black?" It has been suggested that this character was partially based on Tim Westwood, a white British DJ and presenter of the Radio 1 Rap Show and Pimp My Ride (UK) .
In the 1998 film Can't Hardly Wait, Kenny Fisher (played by Seth Green), also personifies the wigger stereotype. He is just one of a group of young white males who adhere themselves to the rapper culture who attends the graduation party where he who plans on losing his virginity by the end of the night, even going to extremes in packing a bag full of "treats" to help "get his shit together".
The 2003 film Malibu's Most Wanted offers another satirical take on the wigger stereotype. The movie's main character, Brad Gluckman (played by Jamie Kennedy), is an upper class white male raised in Malibu, but he feels much more connected to African-American culture.

The 1995 sitcom "Sherman Oaks'' included a character named Tyler who was under the delusional belief that he was African-American and acted out every black stereotype. Tyler, a white member of the upper-class, even once applied for a college scholarship specifically restricted to black students. He'd have gotten away with it, too, until the housekeeper called the college and invited them over for an interview and got him caught. His mother, embarassed and not knowing what to say, told the interviewers "We think Tyler may have been African-American in a former life."

The Canadian comedy/mockumentary Trailer Park Boys features a character named J-Roc, a white rapper who almost always speaks in ebonics. His most common phrase is "Nawmsayin'?" ("Know what I'm saying?") Both he and other characters on the show often forget that he is white.

The MTV sketch comedy show "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle" has popularized the term wigger among mainstream audiences. One of the sketches features Snoop Dogg performing a process called "de-wiggerfictation" on a wigger and returning him to his "white self".
The character of Rita on the US-sitcom Whoopi was a stereotype of a female wigger.
Though Fred Durst and Vanilla Ice have both been called wiggers, not all white artists who embrace elements of black culture are described in this way. Justin Timberlake's work with The Neptunes, for instance, has been described as "respectful" and "credible".

A "Saturday Night Live" commercial parody starring Ashton Kutcher advertised Federline briefs as "Man-panties for wiggers."

On the '90s sitcom The Wayans Bros., Mitch Mullany portrayed a wigger named White Mike. In one episode during the first season, Shawn calls him "Vanilla Ice

[cooked cook]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

On the '90s sitcom The Wayans Bros., Mitch Mullany portrayed a wigger named White Mike. In one episode during the first season, Shawn calls him "Vanilla Ice

Gypsy tries not to wig out, despite his lack of a wig and reaches for the Wigpedia to save the day

OK, cook being inapropriately comedic again.
Hmmm new racial slurs coming into play that slander not a person's race, but the race they immitate(or is it them for imitating it?) Who gets offended? The person of race A, or race B?
Either way, no room in this cook's world for any racism, or hatred of any sort.

The only way out of this racial hatred mess is to screw the hell out of each other until we're all one big race.
much love
cc

by the way...
The Wayans Show was funny as hell. As the youngest Wayans', they don't get a lot of credit in the older brother's shadow. Funny stuff though. And White mike wasone of the funnier characters on the show. LOL

[Sleepy]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

Yes...well it's a funny old world....and sometimes you come across questions that you might need help on answering...

...Just recently a member of this site objected to the word 'WIGGA'....saying that it was a racist slur and this word should not be on this site.....

....I have not much of an oppinion on this and am not usually very politically correct....so I thought that I should open this vote/debate to the membership to see what the response might be...

uh, you have got to be kidding!

i have seen much worse (especially lately) with no actions taken.

i have a neighbor who is "milk chocolate" colored and a neighbor who is "lily white" colored...Mr. Lily White is more of a "n**ger" than Mr. Milk Chocolate"

it has nothing to do with your pigmentation, its all in your actions.

i don't think "wigger" is a racial slur...what if you make wigs?

remember why we are here???

Ban the word?

Jeez..

Regards..
Whitey the blue eyed devil boy

[moth]

Well I am just about sick of all of the shit that is iether has to do with someone bitching about, for instance no prayer in school and even the thought of taking in God We Trust off our currency. Talk about some People.
Just to much Crap , its to easy to offend someone nowdays, but then there are so many more reasons now days to take offence with.
More than likely that group is iether to shallow to see that it means nothing comming from the source or have nothing better to Bitch about.
Case in point:
What about african americans who wear ther pants around there Dam Ankles?
Guess its best to not say anything I mean after all Its making a statment Huh>? LMFAO The word Wigger just seem to fit so well. Course I have seen many Caucasion Wiggers too
U Reap what You Sow
While I am sure This has little to do with this Thread. I somehow feel better now!


I am thinking moving to the hills , looking for Nacoma and having some flapjacks.

[Gypsy Nirvana]

''The only way out of this racial hatred mess is to screw the hell out of each other until we're all one big race.
much love''
cc....

L.M.F.A.O.!!

[Sleepy]

you might as well ban the word "genius"....or "f4"


hehehe

[truecannabliss]

In case anyone wonders im the one that got pissed off......feel free to quote my post if ya want GN.
Peace

When can we get some of these "Wigga" beans?.....LOL

Peace

[Sleepy]

sorry true.