I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts by Larry Wilmore

I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts by Larry Wilmore

Author:Larry Wilmore
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Humor, Social Science, Political, Racism, United States - Race relations, African Americans - Race identity, Topic - Political, American Satire And Humor, Blacks In The U.S., Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General, African American Studies, United States, Biography & Autobiography, Anthropology - Cultural, Race identity, African Americans, General, Topic, Ethnic Studies, Racism - United States, Discrimination & Racism
ISBN: 9781401309558
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 2009-01-13T06:00:00+00:00


TINY P: A nizame is when you take part of a “normal” name and combine it with a character identifier about the person. It’s a contraction of the words “nizzle” and “name.”

WILMORE: Nizzle?

TINY P: Yeah, that’s Snoop Speak for ni—

WILMORE: Black person, got it. So, a nizame is like a nickname?

TINY P: Naw, they’re completely different. Let me break it down. Puff Daddy was a nickname for Sean “Puffy” Combs. But P. Diddy is his nizame.

WILMORE: I see. That makes sense. But now it’s just Diddy, what does that mean?



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