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Riley Freeman is a third-grade student at J. Edgar Hoover Elementary School

He's a basketball player, an avid reader, and one day hopes to spread his philosophy through rap music

He was in class when he had a verbal exchange with his teacher, Joe Petto

But Mr. Petto said it was Riley who used the N-word first

So I told him to take his seat, and here comes this barrage of insults

I mean, some of the words I've never even heard before

And I was just stunned, and I said, well, sit down, nigga

I used the word. I admit it

I thought there was a difference between nigger and nigga

I thought I understood this whole thing, but I can't say no

I need help

I wanna be free

Free from my enemies

I wanna be free

Free from my enemies

Brother, tell me why

Why do you hate on me

Cause I wanna be

free from my enemies

I wanna be free

Free from my enemies

I wanna be free

And what Is free

Free Is when you be yourself and never fix shit

What Is free

Free Is able to act and do as you wish

What is free

Free Is when you lose the old to get good and new

What Is free

Free is when you lose the thing that's not meant for you

Man, I gotta be free from my enemies

Free from the ones that's pretending me

Free from the things that I really want but cannot get cause it's not meant for me

Free from the love that I always give because getting it back will never be

Free from the ones that I give my hand because they end up taking the half of me

Look, FREE Is doing great

You get the freedom from what you love

Free is when you're living now, living in a moment never in the past

I ain't not free cause I want some love

I ain't not free cause I need a hug

How am I free when I gotta graph fucking 6 to 6 on the 9 to 5

No

Whenever I hear the rappers, they say

Nigga

It's in all the music

Look, look, look

Rap songs that use the word nigga in a positive way

There's tons of them

Look

Real nigga roll call

Niggas bleed

Jigga my nigga

Niggas for life

Real niggas don't die

Shame on a nigga

Suck a nigga

Ain't no nigga

The school is investigating the incident

But in the meantime, Mr. Petto has been put on unpaid leave

I just couldn't believe it because nobody ever called me a nigga before

How did it make you feel

I feel like I'm shit

I feel like they ain't never gonna love me

I feel like I'll kill anybody that's showing some hate on me

I'm thinking like shit

Why would somebody hate me just for my skin

I'm thinking like damn

I don't see all this cause we are the same

Blackcellent, blackcellent, blackcellent

People hating cause I'm excellent

They are all over showing hate

Calling my people black of the continent

There ain't no black of the continent

All of these people Is African

Man you know they hating us cause they know our power Is hurricane

I wanna be free

Free from my enemies

I wanna be free

Free from my enemies

Brother tell me why

Why do you hate on me

Cause I wanna be free from my enemies

Hey, come here. Look at this

This nigga must be crazy