In the conversational poem Duality Duel: The Nerd vs the Nigga by Daniel Beaty he explains the battle fought between the nerd and the nigga by speaking as both a nerd and a nigga. The battle is fought within many African Americans. Many believe that there is no place for the Negro in elite society, so they abandon the Negro within themselves and embrace the nerd or image that seems “appropriate” to the behavior and image of the upper class or elite society. elite. The battle between the nerd and the nigger seriously needs a resolution. The battle may not be won by just one side, so the question is: can the nerd and the nigger coexist? What is a nerd? What's a nigga? Before the question can be answered, can nerd and black coexist, nerd and black must be defined. According to Dictionary.com, a nerd is an intelligent but determined person who is obsessed with a hobby or non-social activity. What's a nigga? The legendary Smokey Robinson once said, "I think it's a shame that every few years black people change their names," but nigga was one of the first names, probably the first name after black or African. In the days of slavery, slave masters called slaves “niggers,” the term “nigger” being just the slang version of the word nigger. Today the word is used only with respect by blacks towards other blacks. The use of the word by the white race is considered highly disrespectful. Today, blacks use the word as a form of affection or tenderness. It's common to walk out and hear a black person greet another black person by saying, "What's up, nigga?" Between a hello and a goodbye, the... center of the card... expressed his "well-thought-out external character", which expresses that the nerd is running away from himself. Beatty later says, speaking like the Negro, "without me there is no you" and in that sentence there is the truth. The truth that the nerd is afraid to let slip and profess, but which is revealed when the doors are closed and the nerd is all alone, when "the nightmares of the ghetto still haunt your dreams" and you realize that "your mom it's still black." So the solution to the battle between the nerd and the nigger is that they coexist and they can do this. The nerd and the nigger complement each other and must be revealed each in their own respectable times. As Beaty says, you don't have to just become a nigga, "but this thing is true, there's a hard ass nigga inside you that you gotta let out." Don't deny yourself to be who you really are, embrace your nerd and travel to the nigga in you.