Having already been enticed into reading Mr. Asim's book The N Word: Who can say it, who shouldn't and why from a CSPAN interview, I was ready for a frank history and cultural analysis of America's most reviled epitaph.
The first chapter begins by recounting a part of the great American drama the OJ Simpson trail. The prosecution believed that such a word would affend the jury, half being African-American. The defense believed it would only characterize the atomsphere of the debate. From there it goes to say the history of the N word goes back far beyond America to the 1500's. The N word originated from teh latin word Niger. It's use was used as a neutral term only to be used as an insult later on.
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