What about The N Word makes it so upsetting and inappropriate to use?
The word packs such power to represent overt racial hatred, most people - regardless of race - should not even utter it. The hatred, prejudice and inherent violence in bedded in the word brings it on par with the overt vulgarity associated with pornographic expletives.
When the word is used in “discourse” it has been downgraded to a cliché. Something said in hatred, to express a visceral reaction and downgrade the subject to a status of nonhuman. The level of disgust and outrage is lost with over usage. It is a most unholy curse and should not be used lightly.
Some say that people “in the community” that “know what it is to be one and to called one" are indemnified and allowed to casually referred to each other as N Words.
Still, to the families that know the injustice and cruelty associated with the word it packs a primal reaction to can only be expressed as horror intermixed with the fear known only from persecution.
Yet political pundits bandy the word about as if ordering iced tea on a warm summer day. The insensitivity to the stain of oppression is forgotten in their need to make a point. The common excuse that, we have gone beyond that period in time, that it is behind us, is the lamest alibi to dredge from the darkest periods of man's indecency to man, a word that is designed only to terrify.
To recognize the outrage, turn on MSNBC, turn on CNN and see how many times Democrats used the word Nazi. Ask yourself, why is this N Word so freely used when it has nothing to do with the subject.
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