I'll be completely honest. From the time I could talk until I turned 18, I used the n word everyday all day. In fact, all my friends used it the same way. My mother used it. My father used it. Even my 70s something grandmother used it. It was so much the norm that as I've grown to apply analysis to everything that we do, I understand that the commonality of the word has made many African people believe its usage has no tangible impact on us as a people in 2019 and beyond. I know this because that was what I thought back in the 70s when I was using the word before many of the people using it today were even thought of.
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Nabeeh Mustafa
1/31/2019 03:53:07 pm
Yes, words are powerful and as a great writer, you know. There is also the sound and the spirit. We will re-learn this science. It can move mountains.
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