A teenage girl in Florida had her life canceled when a four-year-old tweet of her saying "nigga" went viral, thanks to the evil doings of one of her classmates, Jimmy Galligan, a mixed-race boy of the same age. The poor girl was only trying to be "cool" since she had heard the word used constantly in rap music by superstars like Cardi B. She had just gotten her learner's permit and said it as an an exclamation, not aimed at any one person. (She was not calling anyone a "nigger.")
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| Jimmy says he's "not sorry." |
Next thing you know, her college acceptance was rescinded and a huge article in last Sunday's New York Times, starting on page 1 and taking up a full page inside, was devoted to making sure the world knew about it, thereby crushing her youthful dreams like Bill Clinton did to Monica Lewinsky. Here's an excerpt:
"Galligan had sat on the video for a long time, waiting for the moment it would do the most damage. After the girl—a cheerleader named Mimi Groves—was accepted to the University of Tennessee, the time had come.
The video depicted Groves, who was 15 at the time, and had just obtained her learner's permit, saying "I can drive, [slur]." The remark was not directed at anyone in particular. The brief video clip featuring it circulated on Snapchat until it was obtained and saved by Galligan, who had grown furious at how often he heard his white classmates using the N-word."
I wonder if that boy ever heard the following lovely song by Cardi B:
Woo, yeah
Bitches be pressed (pressed)
Woo, yeah, yeah, woo
They know how I'm comin', real bitch in the flesh (woo)
Who the fuck she gon' check? (Who?)
She be talkin' that shit, talkin' out of her neck (brr)
Put blood on her dress (woo)
Bitches be mad when they see Cardi step in the spot (whoa)
Said that you 'bout it, we know that you not
I'ma pull up on bitches as soon as I drop
Bought a new foreign, I might cop a yacht (skrrt)
Bitches in my business, they tryna plot (woo)
Hoes poppin' shit like they hot but they not (no)
Just flooded the wrist, the Patek, the watch (whoa)
Niggas be flexin', we know what you got
Cardi done had got the game in a knot
Fuckin' your nigga, I got him on lock
This go bang…
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