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Nigger. A discussion of the use of the word, or more exactly, who gets to use it and how weird this is to those of us who just refuse to ever use it. I think the ground has already changed since I wrote this in November 2013. Many comments, some deleted.
Thoughts on nigger
ReplyDeleteI feel pretty safe saying I've probably heard or said that word in person no more than half a dozen times in my life.
And times have changed. I've been following the Carson King story because of my Iowa roots. That reporter's Twitter feed was full of references to nigger and niggas, and he was a pasty white as jug of milk. Trying to sound badass? Thinking it was a mark of being 'woke'? I have no clue.