nigger
"So what to do with the nagging and niggling Nigger that seems to hop into so many mouths and remains undying, still grasping to our collective vocabulary? Are we really done with the Nigger? Despite wishful thinking, I think not because our belief and fear of him keeps him alive. In that way, the Nigger is like Tinkerbelle. The sad truth is that the Nigger is alive and well in the hearts and minds of the American people."
"Because nigger is like ANY other word - context rules its meaning. It can be used as a destructive or a constructive (including educational) tool. Examples: negative use - the KKK, positive use -the aforementioned Mr. Pryor (who not only entertained but educated)."
The whitey projects their fouled earth elements onto black people. Black people are dark, that's geography and genetics not moral inferiortiy. But given the European mind of the last, say, 4 or 5 hundred years, the unknown earth elements get projected on people that have dark skin. Much to everyone's detriment.

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