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Understanding, and i think what is missing is we're not having cross generational cross cultural conversations with people that use the word and feel its sense of detachment or empowerment. we're looking down from privileged spaces often, not engaging them and becomes a class thing. so when the oprah's of the world or bill cosbys of the world look down on a culture and say you shouldn't ever shouldn't use that word, it's very difficult to take a word out of popular culture. it's very difficult to take a word out of the imagination of people. what we do have to do is engage them and understand ...

Oppression that it came out of. certainly when i learned the "n" word, i read it in the context of huck fin. we read the word aloud and said it 100 something, 200 something times in that piece of literature but it gives grounding of how black people are seen and how white people see blacks and a sense of how you internalize those concepts. the important piece here is particularly after the zimmerman trial and trayvon martin tragedy when you talk about unconscious bias and racism that we understand the power of words. if we understand words are vessels of culture and truly want to change cultur...

Irresponsible and that's why oprah and people like myself and others cringe when we hear rap songs spew the word without a sense of history. >> you do point out and you did during the debate about removing that word from the novel "adventures of huckleberry finn." you felt keeping the word in the novel was, in fact, appropriate. why is that usage appropriate? >> because it really allows people to see where the word came from, and the system of oppression that it came out of. certainly when i learned the "n" word, i read it in the context of huck fin. we read the word aloud and said it 100 some...

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