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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How was the word used in context?  The word "nigger" appears in Huck Finn, which is part of the English curriculum at many high schools, including the school my kids attend/ed (not Bullis).  A word isn't "bad" per se; it's about how the word is used and interpreted.    [/quote]

Is the word ever used or interpreted in a "good" or positive way?[/quote]

Actually, it is.  Younger African-American men sometimes use it to indicate friendship/comraderie with other men, white or black.  More fundamentally, though, the word can be used or interpreted in a way that is neither positive nor negative, but that informs or describes.   [/quote]

That's all well and fine, but as a mom of children, who happen to be white, I would not countenance their use of the term.  [/quote]

Well, that would be a totally different use of the word, wouldn't it?  Unless your child is either Mark Twain or Jay-Z?  [/quote]

I am the PP.  There are just way too many (white) folks who want to appropriate the use of the n-word because they hear African-Americans use it.  I am just staking out territory that even if young men walking to catch the bus after a day at Wilson, or Jay-Z in a song uses the word, my children will be raised to understand that they are still precluded from using it, that context and history inform and describe (and proscribes) its use.[/quote]

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