CNN CNN Tonight March 17, 2015 02:55:00
>> i think words do have meaning and words have history and we can't divorce words from their context. that's why it's hard 400 years later for white people to use the n word and it not be seen as deeply entrenched in a white supremacist legacy. black people have used the word in ways that have been different, for redemptive purposes for ironic purposes and also sometimes for painful purposes. it's said that martin luther king jr was looking for andy. he said little niggar where have you been? we wouldn't accuse him of hating black people. context matters. only in the frame of a white supreme ...
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