Dear White People: A handy guide to using the N-word
Screen Grab/1 News It was a devastating story. Not the least because Armah, sobbing, expressed relief that it was she and not her younger sister, or a black family, that had to see that word; that it was she and not someone she cares about who had to carry that horrible burden. Not the least because this is an issue we keep running face-first into in New Zealand, and if we can’t start addressing it, when there are people pleading with us to try, then there’s something seriously wrong with us. The word, painted with a flourish in gold on what looks to me like a crappy bit of wood with ...