‘C U Next Tuesday’, that’s right. Look at the way she ALWAYS acts, things that come out of her mouth, her referring to herself as (we know what). Give me a break, she got exactly what she has been asking for years.This hypocrisy makes me sick. I know people say she is soooo talented etc (even G. MIchael said that), but seriously, people, SHE BETTER BE with all this constantly making herself trashy and proving she is in fact much overrated as an artist. Anyways, I hope there is some talent behind not respecting herself at all and flashing bare a** and ti** everywhere with a mic stuck in between your thighs. Is there? You shall reap what…. (as they say).

The thing is Rihanna can portray herself in any way she likes. That’s her prerogative. But the magazine was completely wrong with the language they used, which is known all over the world as a racist, offensive term.

Yeah perhaps people now use it in a different way to try and take away the connotations, but for a magazine to use it? It was stupid and ignorant.

They need to apologise – not to Rihanna, but to all the people all over the world who have faced racism and know how damaging it can be.

Anyone who thinks that this behavior should be tolerated is purely igonorant. Show me one occurance that she referred to her self as the title did you racist idiots!!!

Gossip Cop should provide a DISLIKE button also. I’m sure there would be more dislikes then likes. Anyway, nasty people like nasty things.

You can tell by the context it wasn’t meat in any kind of derogatary way. They’re not goint to apologise because it wasn’t a put down. And they used NiggA NOT ER. I was ready to be up in arms, guns blazing about this, but i get it. It was meant as my nigguh, not that nigg**. Had it been the last one, i would have fucken been outraged.

I am not convinced that Eva Hoeke is a deliberate racist. But the magazine could have broaden the context with items -besides N-bitch- of the ultimate Arian, Chinese, Latina and other ‘races’ bitches. That would set it all in the right perspective. Unless the autor and magazine believe there are no races but a single human race. Which would make that context unnecessary.

Since there is -arguably- no other race than a single human race, one might also ask:

- Does the author/head editor believes there are different human ‘races’?
- To which ‘race’ does he/she feels to be a part of?
- Are these ‘races’ to his/her beliefs equal or hierarchical classified in superiority?
- Does the magazine share these opinions?

Do you seriously think that the denigrading language of a small minority of rappers represents that of a whole ethnicity?

Can you tell the difference in interpretation of an ethnicity by calling it by it’s official name or denigrading as in N*gg*?

Does the denigrading scolding of any rapper justify to use the same lingo to interpretate an etnicithy? Allow me to refrase my questions:

- Did the author/head editor referred to an ethnicity by N*gg*?
- To which ‘ethnicity’ does he/she feel to be a part of?
- Are these ‘ethnicities’ to his/her beliefs equal or hierarchical classified in superiority?
- If hierarchical classified, does the author believe the N*gg* is equal, superior or inferior to his/her own
- Does the magazine share these opinions?

* The same principle of all the above goes for referring to women as bitches. *

If you wished, you could have answered the first three questions on behalf of yourself to share your personal opinions.

The refrased questions were as an addition to your ‘Hypothetical Questions’:

‘Would there exist an issue/problem if…?
- this editorial was featured in a fashion magazine that catered to a specific demographic, e.g.: “Today’s Black Woman”, “Essence”
- Hoeke was a black woman’

Which gave me the urge to balance out by focusing towards the author and magazine as well and not merely limit the perpective to criticasters.

The author and magazine bear their own responsibility as journalist and a popular publication medium. Their choice of colloquial speech by mimicking “a small minority of rappers” does not acquit them from their choice in case of criticism.

In response to your post below (there was no ‘Reply’ link):
‘The author and magazine bear their own responsibility as journalist and a popular publication medium. Their choice of colloquial speech by mimicking “a small minority of rappers” does not acquit them from their choice in case of criticism.’

Well, actually, both parties (“a small minority of rappers” and the author/magazine) are “acquitted” – your word, for the purposes of this discussion – as Freedom of Speech/Expression is recognized as a human right under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights/Article 19 AND in International Human Rights Law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Whoa. This is crazy. I was reading Necole Bitchie website and decided to find another source for information on the subject.

So from someone who grew up in the ghettos of Brooklyn, NY., who received a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering and work for the government I find this as offensive. Only reason I stated a little background was because some like to stereotype and cast “black” people into one category.

So context is very important when it comes to words. The title is “Nigga Bitch”. If we want to say well “rappers say that” well I listen to rap, hip-hop, R&B, etc. and I never heard a rapper put those two words together.

It’s sad that I really have to give a history lesson but it truly seems like people are ignorant. We all concur that once upon a time slavery happened and somehow the word picked up a negative connotation. Politically, professionally and formally we do not hear this word being used. We hear words like “Blacks” and “African American” instead.

But yet people want to defy the odds and live on the edge. We’ve seen many people career come to an halt because of their usage of the word. lol but people still want “equality” in word use. It goes something like that “if they can say it, why can’t I?” Sigh. Really. Like America was built on slaves. We see how rich these companies are nowadays. Imagine how rich they would be if slavery existed. Imagine having a servant to do your daily chores and things you don’t like to do. Imagine that you can have sex with many women whenever you want. Now that’s a perk of being a winner aka a slave master. Now imagine having to clean up people fecal matter, being raped, beaten, insulted, uneducated and feeling like the slave master dog is worth more than you. Now granted I never experience slavery and I’m pretty sure it’s far worse than I described. So yea the emancipation of proclamation happened, Johnson retracted the 40 acres and a mule and every year since slavery companies have been reaping the benefits of slavery. So it’s like compound interest. So why is it that my co-worker can say that he can understand why a middle age white lady can be offended by someone dark skin walking behind them? (rhetorical question) Last time I checked Black people pretty much do violence against their own. Why is it that I have all these degrees but yet I have people managing me who don’t even have a degree? But all that have nothing to do with slavery right? The struggles that black people go through are solely cause by them and not society right?

Ok enough tangents. The point is that Yes I know that the country is not America but Dutch. But really since it’s a different country the rules don’t apply?

And I can understand people saying that the author, editor and magazine intentions may not have been to be racist. Obviously even if they were that would be financial suicide. But the whole slavery thing is still fresh in people mind, hate crimes still goes on. So why not in good faith just say something to this effect,

“In today’s boundless world it’s challenging as a magazine to ensure that what we print will not offend any race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status. Although it wasn’t our intent to offend anyone, in hindsight we can see where this article may make some feel uncomfortable. We apologize and promise to ensure that this doesn’t happen in the future. Here at Jackie we love all our readers and would like to thank them for their ongoing support.”

So now you idiots have something to work with. But really…

“She has street cred, she has a ghetto ass and she has a golden throat.”

Now do we ever say that white people have street credit? or associate the word ghetto with white people? But yet there’s no racial undertone here. lol. Oh yea and when was the last time you said that white people have a golden throat? When I heard that I thought it meant her fellatio was on point.

“Rihanna, the good girl gone bad, is the ultimate niggabitch and displays that gladly, and for her that means: What’s on can come off. If that means she’ll be onstage half naked, then so be it.”

Just for the record I initially didn’t like Rihanna because I felt that starting off she didn’t allow for her abilities to make her who she is but relied on being associated with Jay-z. But can I blame her? No. However, over time, I said I can’t be upset at her because she can’t blow like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson or Beyonce but she brings a pop techno sound to hip hop and it needs to be diverse. and She does a great job. So being a good girl she was never a good girl but when you start off in this industry you have to portray yourself in a certain light else people would put you into a category. Brittany did it and we are seeing Cher Lloyd do it as well. I’m not even going to talk about the word niggabitch again. These people absolutely coined the term. I will go to urbandictionary and see if its there. lol. Again many singers go naked, this is just not a black thing.

“But Dutch winters aren’t like Jamaican ones,…”

As someone stated she’s not Jamaican what kind of author and magazine is this that just use blanket statements to describe people.

But as we learn when Tommy Hitler said he didn’t make his clothes for black people, Cristal told black people go drink Dom Perignon or Krug instead, what happened to Imus and Kramer we will see…

Oh, come on please. If the magazine wants to live in a racist free world they should give a good example themselves. Instead of that they lower the standard to Ghetto gangster language. Good advise for them as well. Stop pointing at other people and take your own responsibillity. There is no excuse to use the word Nigg*. Not even for Eva Hoeke and the Jackie as a joke. Unless their main goal was to discuss the matter. Which was not their first intention. They got what they wanted. Free publicity by shocking the world. What better way than using a pubic trick? Shout out loud: Heil H*tler or Nigg* and chances increase that you are the talk of the world. Very cheap and coward to blame it to others afterwards.