More Thoughts.

I don't care what people say, I still think that word is a negative word even when African Americans say it. But OTOH words like n*gro are what you call historic words because they aren't used anymore. But I don't think they were ever offensive. (Did you know that some of the most beautiful quotes on racial equality were made by people like Eleanor Roosevelt using that word?) Also there was a student in NY who claimed another world meant that word in Macbeth in the line "Be not a niggard of your speech" from that play. But the teacher explained that back in the 16th century it meant stingy and not the other word at all. And people discredit the real racism and injustice in this world when they make an issue out of that or report on those stories.