The N Word.
Today's topic is about use of the word nigger, yea I said it and even spelled it out now what? It is a word that can be divisive depending on who is using it and why. It stirs up a mixed bag of emotions in Americans from every color and background. It comes with a lot of baggage because of its origin in American culture and history. The African American experience with it has been a love hate relationship. On one hand some of us don't like use of the word under any circumstance. Then there are others of us who use the word as a term of endearment in certain circumstances. It would seem that the more time passes that separates it from its ugly inception in slavery days, the more we have become accustomed to comfortably using it in our communities. The most insensitive aspect of it occurs when some one from another race uses the word under any circumstance, most African Americans find this to be completely unacceptable and rightfully so. The most recent controversy surrounding th...