Reply #33: The pain belonged to blacks [View All]

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in slavery, to blacks up until the 60s, but I don't see it today. (institutionally, at least)

Yeah, there are racist asshats out there, but that is no reason to perpetuate such a hateful word. If there is "pain" and 'humiliation" in the word, why in the hell use it? And as for controlling it; hardly. I don't even know what that means for starters, but whatever they are doing, they are hardly "controlling" it. They are giving implicit permission for its usuage IMO. I think that the NAACP agrees, which is why they want to end the usuage of the word completely.