Article content continuedThe N-word is the go-to-grenade that is synonymous with repulsive and hateful attributes — and Black people. The only equality in the N-word is that it applies to all Black people — male, female, young, old, infirm, intellectually deficient, smart, handsome, big nosed, nappy haired, stud or weakling. If you have no visceral response to the word, you can’t know, don’t know and won’t ever know how the word makes a Black person feel. No matter how great, how accomplished, how polite or wonderful a Black person can be, to some, we are and will always be just the N-word. As much as Black musicians try to make it cool, and teens sing-along to its troubling rhythms, the N-word is never OK.

Source: National Post October 28, 2020 09:56 UTC