Yeah, that was kind of my point. I don't know, I'm pretty split on the whole Monica/American Inventor thing. While I personally don't use the term any longer in any social settings, including this board, I can see how both sides of this issue feel. (By the way, I have used that word on this board in the past, or FoH, I can't remember.)
Black people have used the word so long now, we've come to devalue it's stinging racist feeling. "It's our word now." I don't think that's possible in society. Closet and outright racists point to this fact to further their own use of the word, and that's not good either.
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