Students at Highland Park Senior High School staged a walkout last week to protest the use of the N-word by a White teacher.
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Does the GOP have a racist cut-off point?
President Donald Trump traffics in racial epithets. Since his first year in office, Trump’s displays of xenophobic, misogynistic, LGBTQ-phobic, and racist remarks (to name just a few from his laundry list of bigotries) appear to have no cutoff point. The Republican Party under Trump doesn’t seem to have one, either. In a recent YouGov poll, […]
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That N-word, again
I contend that you cannot conjugate the word, because it is firmly embedded in the lexicon of racist language that was, and still is, used to disparage African Americans. Many slaveholders pronounced the word with the “a” ending, and in the 1920s many African Americans used the “a” version as a pejorative denoting class difference.