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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10755)1/9/2002 7:58:14 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (2) of 23908
 
The slur that journalist Farai Chideya has called “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets” may soon discomfit those who devised it more than those who have suffered from it. Whites, Kennedy notes, can no longer use the word (derived from niger, Latin for the color black) without disgracing themselves; blacks use it ironically, defiantly, even affectionately. True, some African-Americans still object to anyone’s using it. But when a black man with pooh-bah credentials like Kennedy’s—he teaches at Harvard Law School—praises the rappers and comedians who sling the N word around for their “bracing and admirable independence,” the controversy among blacks may be about over.

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