Justin Timberlake. Madonna. N Word. Confused? Read on…
No stranger to controversy, self-professed Pop President Justin Timberlake found himself at the center of a social media storm last night.
For, fresh from rocking the stage at the UK’s ‘V Festival’, the ‘Suit & Tie’ chanteur took to his Twitter to wish Madonna (who turned 56 yesterday) a Happy Birthday. It was his choice of words, however, that raised many an eyebrow:
In the since deleted Tweet, Timberlake said:
A HAPPIEST of Bdays to my mother chucking ninja, @Madonna!! Hope you have a great one, M!
It doesn’t take a wordsmith to translate the singer’s statement into more literal terms.
Needless to say, Timberlake’s @replies were a PR nightmare, with many touting the word “racist”.
That’s tricky terrain to tread. Although, it’s safe to say (and we’re sure even he would agree) that it was in bad taste. As a seasoned veteran, we expect him to know better, do better. Especially, given how much being associated with top “Urban” talent has helped his career.
#NowPlaying- Janet Jackson – ‘You Ain’t Right’
The word has lost all meaning. Who cares who says it?? I won’t be surprised if eventually every race says it!!!…
STFU. It is never and WILL never be ok for a white person/devil to say that word or any variation of it.
STFU
@Smh. You do realize you’re being racist by generalizing all white people as devils.
To say Ninja?? GTFO
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YOU STFU
@ beysus…
i agree the ‘n’ word starte d to lose it’s meaning when all races started using it as an endearing term for each other. tip toe and ducking around the word only helps it maintain it’s negative power. some folks need to get a grip.
That word will NEVER lose its true meaning no matter how ppl try to water it down.
@ amanda…
and just what is it about it’s “true meaning” that sends us blacks into such uncontrollable rage when whites are using it to address one another? use your head it’s obvious that even if jt (who’s a good performer…but a huge mj ripoff) used the ‘n’ word it’s just a lame attempt to up his wanna-be cool factor. stop it with the he’s being racist bs because you devalue true racism.
All yall h*** STFU!!
A lot of black people work for these super stars, that want to be cool, and probably got their freedom to use the term. They’re never a part of reality. This is not acceptable. Such a shame white people resorted to call each other that disrespectful term.
Oh boy.
madge is cool with me,the way people was going on over what she said was just extra.as far as i see it madge is no racist.
Ugh anyone who gets offended by this needs a life!
Like yo mammy…the ho
Please, JT needs to go somewhere with that. He said “ninja”.
He clearly wants to say “n!gga”. She wants to sit with is so badly.
He’s another one that uses black culture for his advancement.
Or maybe he just sings the way he wants. Move on.
Or…maybe Timberbitch is a f****** goofy ass dork who clearly needed blacks supporting him to look cool. All white acts do eventually.
Oh you are so cool. I want to be you. I also want to be black, Amanda. – That was sarcasm. You really think you are better because you are black? You are sad person who seems more like trailer trash than any white person.
Oh please, he said ninja. No different from when everyone said my nizzel. Let get on the other Justin that straight out said the word with racist intent. But on the other side, if it was close to a Jewish slur, oh boy, those Jews would’ve got in that ass. If anything it’s a fail attempt to be funny man.
Black people are always quick to yell racism when it’s WOB, but when it’s BOW, it’s pretty much okay because we were slaves at one point and have the right to be angry all the time… But my questions to all these social media activists who seem to only appear when it’s an WOB incident, where were all of you when every major news outlet posted articles about the 500-600 Black youths or killed by other Black youths in Chicago EVERY YEAR, where are you when Black kids drop out of high school at higher rates than White students, contract H**/A*** at higher rates than White teens… NO WHERE. No watch people start yelling JT’s a racist and exploits Black ppl to make money… When he’s written for most of our faves, can out perform most them and has more talent than most…
Who said that he was racist? So stupid.
You can sit and STFU. That isn’t even the issue or the point. Justin Timberbitch IS a racist that exploits black people to sustain his career. And Usher shiits on the boy biitch’s entire existence when it comes to writing, performing, talent, and record sales. So you can go suck off timberfake somewhere else.
STFU and take the hasbeen with you.
even though he has s** with countless women to the point of contracting a disease? GTFO with that Usher s***
U sound like a typical ignorant uncle tom. There are balck people fighting against black on black crime EVEYDAY.
Why do white people and black uncle toms bring up black on black crime in Michael Brown or Trayvon case but didnt bring up white on white crime during OJ discussions …. hmmmm
Most whites are killed by whites
back to the topic… Im not offended by JT. He did not use N word
U can eat my ass ho…NO ONE SAID HE WAS RACIST!! We said he wasnt funny and he should think first. Sluut!!
I’m sick to DEATH of white people and punk ass black people trying to use every excuse in the book to make it ok for them to say that word. GET THIS STRAIGHT AND THROUGH YOUR GODDAMN HEADS. IT IT NOT OK FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO SAT THAT WORD. PERIOD, END OF DISCUSSION. I don’t care if every black person on the planet says it. And you b**** ass black folks that are making excuses for them need to kill yourselves. Our grandparents didn’t fight and die throughout the civil rights movement so that you p****** can give the ok to these white devils, who are racist by nature, to say that word that was hurled at them practically every day of their lives during the Civil Rights era. Grow some balls and stop being afraid to make white people mad at you. F*** Timerbitch and that 1000 year old w**** madonna. They’re both racist devils that used black people to their own benefit to build their careers.
HE DIDNT EVEN SAY THE F****** WORD, YOU WASTE OF SPACE. It does not make it any better for someone who is black to call someone the same word that a white person does. You cannot justify it. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. You’re pathetic. For you to think it’s something that can be tolerate by different races, you’re an imbecile. That word will never be FORGIVEN or FORGOTTEN. How can you say blacks can use it but whites can’t, but have the same meaning? Just because a black person uses it, it now supposedly has a different meaning? I don’t even know why I’m wasting my time with you. 1) you seem extremely racist. 2) your meaning behind it is the reason why blacks cannot evolve TODAY. You’re still stuck in the past. AND if anything, blacks are more racist than whites. If you think I’m wrong, this website CLEARLY shows it. I’m so over it. It’s getting to the point where something bad is going to happen to END it all. I don’t know what that is, but it will be something similar to the 1950’s-60’s.
@smh…
who is acting like an oversensitive p*ssy? say what you want but i doubt if our grandparents would have gotten their drawers knotted over white people calling one another the ‘n’ word. attempting to replace it by installing the ‘n’ word which means exactly the same is above and beyond ridiculous. there are other words just as racist and derogatory as the this word was meant to be.
@SMH, you betta let ’em!!! Take ’em to school! LOL It’s clearly obvious that these ppl need to be educated in Blach History yr. round – not just in February.
@smh eat me
Lmao black people are so sensitive.
Yeah I know. Slavery kinda does that to you.
Yes, you obviously experienced it.
@Hahahaha. You think you’re cute but you’re actually ignorant. A person who can trace their ancestry back to slavery isn’t experiencing the affects of it? I think you’ll find that they do.
Slavery is wrong and everyone knows that but if people won’t stop obssesing over something like that article instead of serious issues then the whole idea of fighting with racism will become a joke. And you can’t just blame all white people for something those white people many years ago did. Black people should stop looking for racism in places where there is none like the whole thing with JT.
Your avatar picture says it all.
white ppl think they know it all.
It’s easy to talk all that s*** when there’s absolutely NOTHING that can offend whites- except a black guy in the White House…Oops. LOL
So is yo PUSSSY from that everlasting YEAST INFECTION!!!
Yawn
yawn. You blacks are always so quick to cry about something. if anything it’s the Japanese who should be offend. even though there is nothing to be offended about. get a life!
@madbrax aug17 9:27a…
calling white people racist for using the word ‘ni**er as a term in the same way that blacks do is way overboard and makes no sense. but when whites jump up and down and turn blue and whine “how come they can say it and we can’t” is REALLY looking for something to cry about.
Fu ck u
Sorry, I just can’t find it offensive. People are getting overly-sensitive. I heard there is similar quote in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so maybe we should go bash it too? Not everything is racist. If someone is offended then I feel sorry for their idiotism.
…but he said ninja.
Right I don’t see why it’s even worth posting about.
White people will never understand the power of such words because there’s nothing people can say about them collectively that would hurt them.
It is a HISTORICAL fact that white people (Europeans) have ruled over ethnic minorities and used that power to discriminate against them and hold them down. It’s very easy for white people to joke about these words because they don’t have grandparents to tell them about how they were spat on when they walked down on the street, or great great grandparents who were slaves. If black people say that word against black people they are not saying it in the same way a white person is saying to a black person, which is the big difference.
I am not surprised that some white people can take the n word so lighthearted because it doesn’t affect them anyway, but as a black man who has been hurt by that word and falsely arrested because I was black, there is NOTHING funny about them.
But which way Justin meant to offend anyone? Tbh he didn’t even say that word. Maybe he didn’t even want to say n****. And even if he wanted he is aware he can’t say this word. We shouldn’t interpret his tweet as racist, because that just doesn’t make sense.
In the UK, the word p*** is used to offend Asian people. So, if I say the word paks instead of p*** does that make it any better? No it doesn’t, because I’m saying the exact same word only different. The meaning of n**** and ninja is EXACTLY the same.
And what is racist about it? Is Madonna black? He still didn’t use the n-word. Should we ban this word too? How can term of endearment be offensive?
@DMoney aug 17 9:40am…
the terms ‘poor white trash’ or simply ‘white trash’ used to break down whites (and still gets to some) as much as the word ‘ni**er breaks blacks. many of them have decided to not let the names have immeasurable power over them. even though they’re degrading terms they never reached the point to banning them lest they crumble and fall at hearing them.
If you are a black person reading this and you don’t see the harm in white people making lighthearted reference to this word, just know that the second you do something to p*** them off the FIRST thing they’re gonna call you is that word…and believe me when I say it won’t be so lighthearted.
EXACTLY!!!
Surprise! Surprise!
White person offends black people and black people are expected to lie down and take it. LISTEN UP, there is no quota on how many times a black person can be offended by insensitive behavior.
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this is so stupid why is this even newsworthy? seriously people are beyond sensitive he didn’t even used the other and y’all are complaining if anything middle eastern woman should be offended because they get called that all the time and its derogatory towards them. he meant no harm people nowadays get offended over everything, you called them fat they get offended,people are so oversensitive, words have no power is the people that give them the power why get offended when everybody he meant no harm at all it makes no sense.
Are white people going to be banned from using any words that sound similar to the n-word? Can they even use words that start with letter n? Let’s get someone interested in racist issues to work on that. It sounds like a serious matter and not complete BS…
So people can go around saying what they like and everyone should just get over it? Ironically, the only reason people are accusing black people of sensitive because they’re not gay. If he said f*****, you’d be screaming and calling GLAAD’s hotline but black people are supposed to just take whatever it said about them.
um no im gay myself and i dont fine the word fagg0t derogatory like i said you give power to the words, words are meaningless he didn’t say the word “niqqa” he said “ninja” if anything middle eastern woman should be the ones getting offended not black people.
When Azealia called Perez a f** everyone called her homophobic so goodbye with that.
But he never said F*****, neither the n-word. So, your comment is irrelevant.
Oh don’t you guys know? The only people allowed to be upset by anything are gay folks. If you’re an ethnic minority you better smile whenever someone makes derogatory statements toward you because you’ve had YEARS to b**** and moan about being captured from your homes, put on a ship and forced to work as slaves AND judged every time you exhibit the affects of what happened to you.
Same goes for Jewish people. DON’T YOU DARE speak out when someone refers to you as a thief or when someone says the holocaust didn’t happen because if you do you’ll be called oversensitive.
Preach.
“Gay folks” have been persecuted by Christians for two thousand years. African people have only been persecuted for 500. Get off that tired pedestal Ms. Victim.
I absolutely CANNOT stand when ppl use gay ppl and black ppl as mutually exclusive groups. It’s so stupid. You make it sound as if there aren’t gay blacks. One group is a race. The other is of a certain sexual preference.
Let’s see if the dickheads on this site would be so understanding if a male singer had said f** or q**** or chichi man.
So true.
It’s suprising how many times black people are offended by something not offensive.
Not offensive to YOOOOU! Which part of that don’t you understand? It’s not offensive to YOOOOOU!
Are you really that easily offended? Congrats.
I’m sorry did you suffer through slavery? No. No, you didn’t. Stop pretending that the “N” word offends you or even affects you.
“Black people are so sensitive.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDukq8npXBk
It’s hard to forget about the past when you know it runs through you. The first people do when defending white people who say the n word is think of the lowest possible form of black people and say “well they do it too.” What about those who don’t say it? Think about that.
In this world there will always be the uneducated who don’t want to admit what the world really is and would rather smile at their masters than rebuke them.
“The word has lost all meaning!” it’s the last word many hear before they die.
“Black people say it for fun.” Black people were called it while they r**** our women and killed our men, we don’t owe them the permission to take the word back.
“Black people are so sensitive, tee hee” Well you support a racist w**** so no shock there.
“You blacks…” Let me stop you right there, you start a sentence off with ‘you’ anything and you’re too dumb to even be a part of the discussion.
“Black people only care about WOB crime” no b****, the media ONLY cares about WOB. If we ask for resources to help our youth were called welfare queens, shot in the streets, laughed at, looked down on, left to suffer and die.
“If you’re offended you need a life” and you need an education. If you do HALF the research about stories like Ferguson and the way blacks were stolen from their homes, forced into slavery, disenfranchised and removed from power only to be considered a problem to be relegated to one corner of a state you’d know this giggle giggle oh the n-word is so funny sht ain’t cute.
Things done in the dark come to light, Justin exposed himself.
That’s it! When they want to defend their racism they think of ghetto impoverished black people and say “well they don’t help themselves”, forgetting that any demographic of people who come from something as inhuman as slavery are going to have trouble mixing with a society they have good reason not to trust.
That’s not an excuse to be a lazy bum, but it was worth noting before you sit there and wonder why some black seem so angry all the time.
Exactly.
There’s a reason blacks are more trusting of communities than the government. Communities are usually the ones that come together to attempt to create youth centers and outreach programs. Ask the govt, and you get a sneering face saying how ‘they always want help’, and yet when that same little kid turns to banging because he’s never been pointed in the right direction and cared for they also have 0 sympathy. Nah, easier to lock him up.
He still wrote ninja. What kind of danger is JT to you?
Timberdork is an auditory danger to my ears!
Sorry honey, you have s***** ears. And overall you seem like piece of s***.
It’s just a word…until it’s a word that hurts you.
Did ninja hurt you?
It’s so comical to me how black people get into an uproar over a word white people gave them -smh-
Yet black people love to call each other “ninja”
And then the white person said “ninja” and how become a racial slang word for African-Americans.
Do you hear yourselves? How pathetic! At this very moment, every race is laughing at this. The ones who are making this in to something completely opposite, or who are making a mockery of it, are clearly moronic.
The most racist thing in this post is some of the generalizing going on with white people. They’re not all monsterous, racist s**** masters! The meaning of the word has changed! Get over it! And this is coming from a black person. You’re not gonna get anywhere staying bitter about s*** like this! Justin wasn’t using it in a racist or derogatory term and he didnt even use the ACTUAL word more to the point.
99% of the black people commenting out of “offense” listen and buy music of artists who casually and frequently use the word nigggga and half of them have worked with JT. It’s not that deep as he is using the word ninja as a term of endearment just like the word nigggga is used in majority today. We as black people have made it ok for others to say it by glorifying it. U don’t hear any Japanese people calling their peoples “Japs” or any whites saying “what’s up my cracker” or the Chinese people like “my chiiiiiiink”… Naw. ONLY BLACK PEOPLE. So if turn it into a casual word then how mad can we really get when someone else uses it in the se “loving” context that we do? Exactly. Sit the fuuck down with the corny “I’m offended” ish. If your offended write your favorite rapper and tell them to STOP making the word ok. It starts THERE, not with justin Timberlake who didn’t even use the exact word. Duh people, duh
Agreed that’s how I look at it. How you gon hate a word the white man gave you but then turn around and call another black person a “ninja” … Didn’t just 2 secs ago you hated the word being used? I don’t get the “law” of that word.
So we can’t say Ninja anymore, i guess we can’t call them BLACKS neither, because is offensive to use their own RACE name to refer to them.
Now playing: Elvis Presley – In the Ghetto.
Can I call you a honkey, redneck, trailer trash ho’??? Is that offensive? LOL
So black Twitter is offended by the word ninja? Oh. How about blacks get off Twitter and stop making trash Twitter accounts and get into a high school so they can get a degree and stop being a statistic. This is why I don’t use Twitter anymore. We love to jump down anyone’s throat who say something perceived as offensive but we ignore articles about blacks (men particularly) failing in education. In fact, we’d rather build up that stereotype. Idhtt.
You should check out South African black twitter if you wanna see a bunch of uneducated blacks with no purpose in life
A word is group of letters that represent a meaning. Its the circumstances and intentions behind the word that does the damage so until that word is used out of spite is the only time it will bother me. Until then, you cant get mad at white the people for using the word as a term of endearment when black people themselves are using it. Calling a spade a spade. THAT is racism.
And again, he didnt even say the actual word!
And I can guarantee most of you people making a fuss have and enjoy some music by rappers who flippantly the term in deragatory term. If you think its so disrespectful to your ancestors, why is it only ok for black people today to use? They were not slaves either. If you stand by the word not being used then NOBODY should use it whether your black, white, green or purple. The hypocrisy is real.
If you want the issue of racism to be taken seriously you can’t be offended by something that’s clearly not it. That kind of behavior might turn this whole thing in one big joke.
People stop letting words irritate, annoy and offend you. I’m talking to all you f***, n*****, trannys, etc. This is 2014 child, this is the age where people grew up already exposed to a dominant hip-hop and urbna culture. Get mad about something that matters
LMAO! He didn’t say n***a! He said Ninja so I don’t see what there’s all this uproar for. I like JT (I do give him side eye at times) but this is a reach
The real shade is the #nowplaying Janet Jackson
Jackson lol.
I’ll play FEELS SO RIGHT!
You noticed that too, huh?! HAHA #major_shade
Jeeeez is every word starting n going to be classed as Black??
Moves on to next story
Black people are far more racist towards Whites day in and day out. God forbid anyone mention that fact. And news flash, there have been groups that have been oppressed for FAR longer than Africans.
Jews – 3000 years
Gays – 2000 years
Blacks – 500 years
I’d love to see less victim complex from a group that is no longer a victim of persecution.
How is ninja a racist word?
I think the real story is that JT & Madonna stay in contact still. I never thought two divas of that caliber could stay friends like that. Good for them.
Justin has a “black card”! So he is allowed to use it whenever he likes….
Do you even realize how f****** ignorant you sound. How old are you, really??? Any white who truly had a “black card” knows damn well to NEVER use that word! That’s why his dumbass tried to sugarcoat it and said, “ninja”.
So, let me get this straight…whites call each other the “N” word now to sound cool and edgy because they hear black dudes call each other that?! LOL Whites are so f****** corny. It’s as if they study black culture (or what the white media says is “black culture”) and imitate it to try and look cool. HAHA You whites are such fake as s try-hards. I mean ENOUGH with the grillz, slang, twerking, rapping, etc. With that said…
The only thing that angered me about what Timberdick posted is that he and Hodonna aren’t racists per se but, RACIAL OPPORTUNISTS – big difference. These two douchenozzles have used black culture and artists to advance in their careers at various points in their lives and, as a result become superstars from it. Racial opportunists are MUCH WORSE than racists. At least, with racists you know where they stand, racial opportunists use and abuse black culture to further themselves – all the while making blacks think that they’re really one of us (until s*** hits the fan that is then, they go back to their white privileged status). And, I’m sick of this s***! Timbersnake used Janet to get into the “urban demographic” and, once he got the black audience he wanted, he completely shitted on Janet and stabbed her in the f****** back. I for one, will NEVER forgive him for it or forget it. And, to read these ignorant comments about how this h** “has a black card” and can disrespect black legends really makes me wonder where this generation of black folks is headed. It’s sad to even think about.
P.S.
Sorry for the ducking book on these two idiots (especially since they aren’t worth the time of day) but, I just had to vent.
Oops… I meant, …”f****** book…” LOL
You sound like a loser. Sorry for you and your three comments. Move on. Let’s be honest, if his d*** was shown he would be in trouble. Maybe her being black woman had something to do with it, maybe not. He said he feels sorry for what happened. Tbh how could he save her career? He was just starting his own and wasn’t as respected as he is now. Nobody would care. Janet also didn’t handle the whole thing well. They both made mistakes.
GTFO! He wrote Ninja! You know, those people skilled in ninjutsu??
Starting racism sh*t when there isn’t any to begin with. Get a life!!! You tried.
Proof that Madonna is a true Ninja: http://youtu.be/53VzQxeZ0e8?t=3m6s
First off, Justin Timberlake is black in another shade. He is genuinely in love with black culture he can’t help it.
Just for that, he is allowed to say ‘ninja’. Not the n-word, just ‘ninja’.
And he can only say it to Madge, or Angelina Jolie, or Sandra Bullock. Nobody else.
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