While watching Spike Lee's movie "Bamboozled," I noticed that the N word must have appeared hundreds of times. At one point, Pierre Delacroix daydreams about beating up his white boss beacause he keeps repeating the N word. Somehow he maintains his composure, being the better man.
This led me to thinking more about the N word. It's extremely offensive and brings back awful memories from the past. I just think the world would be better off without the word. It's too late now I guess, the word can never go away.
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There's a book with this title that I have eyed, but not picked up. Have you read it? Anyone else reading this read it? I'd be curious to know opinions...
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Never read it before but I bet it would be really interesting. I'll have to read it sometime.
ReplyDeleteI think that the word has really lost much of it's steam and impact. I'm not a black person but I'd have to imagine that if you said it to a black person now and in 1950, the 1950 recipient would be much more offended. I know that it is an awful word but it is just a word. If we can someone chip away at its impact we can strip it done and take its power away. I know people say that it is MORE than a word but I think we are moving towards a place in which it is JUST a word.
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