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Some of my ‘brothers’ in England will tell you that Hip-hop and Rap music have legitimized use of the term “Nigger” among large sways of Black and non-Black people in America, and that we, too, in England should get with the program and throw off our shackles from the past.
I am, apparently, old-fashioned because I still get offended by use of the N-word. I don’t care who you are or how you say it. I am still likely to smack you in the mouth at a mere whisper of the word. I certainly wouldn’t be teaching my children to use a term that still holds currency as a mark of their supposed inferiority. Maybe it has something to do with class - not to mention respect for self and others - that Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and others I admire, refuse to engage with the word or those who use it.
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