At Least It's A Start!

Recently I heard one Mexican call another Mexican the "n" word.
Well, I guess the "n" word just went mainline. I remembered
many years ago looking up the word in a Webster dictionary.
The meaning then was "a lazy person." I decided today to
look up the word again, after all it had been more than forty
years since I'd did so the first time.

Going back to good ole Webster, the "n" word was not in there.
Closest thing to it was the word niggard and it means "a stingy
person." So then I went to The New Oxford American Dictionary.
Bang! There it was but wait a minute there was a different
explantion and much different from the one I found all those years
ago. The explanation in the Oxford was: "n. offensive a
contemptuous term for a black or dark skinned person."

Then it went on to explain the use of the word
being used by black people in reference to other black people in
a jocular manner. Now the fact that the Webster dictionary no
longer even listed the word well that's a story for another day.
Anyway let me know your thoughts on this bold resolution
by New York County. Check out the article below.




N.Y. COUNTY WANTS TO OBLITERATE N-WORD: Westchester County declares “symbolic” war on racial slur.

*A resolution declaring the “symbolic elimination” of the N-word passed the legislature in Westchester County New York Monday on grounds that its use “remains damaging, divisive and derogatory.”

African American legislator Clinton Young, who drafted the resolution, said in an interview: “I hear it just too much in my community and in other communities throughout America. No matter who uses it or how they use it, it’s demeaning.”
“If people knew the origin of the word, I believe they would stop using it,” he added.




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