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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
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Might have something to do with 100's of years of institutionalized racism in the form of slavery, lynchings, jim crowe laws, segregation and outright hatred from the privileged in this country because of the skin color they were born with.
Asking why the word is offensive seems dense, it's offensive
becuase it's meant to be. Using it as identity effectively strips the word of its power.
That said I do not believe the word should be censored, and I think the article in question is quite valid, but it strikes me as intellectually dishonest when people who should know better feign puzzlement over the power of this word. For Christ's sake, it's 2007 and we still have schools in this country that have segregated school dances. Sometimes I wonder if I live in the same reality as other people