The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
by Jabari Asim

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
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Author: Jabari Asim
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-04
ISBN: 0547053495
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Mariner Books

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Book Review: this guy cannot write his way out of a wet papersack
Summary: 1 Stars

The N word. What a controversy! How should the n word be used? As an expletive! I use it allllll the time, because it's the 'worst' (i.e., the 'best') swear word ever! It beats the heck out of the f word. People give me dirty looks (or flame me on my blog or my twitter postings) when I use it. But this is what I think. Somewhere in most people's family history there were family members who were slaves. Sometimes they were called 'serfs' but it is the same thing. I come from Hawai'i, so as long as n ppl are gonna use the n word, so the heck am I! (Foolhardy perhaps, but I used to destroy chem weapons for a living, carry an automatic double-action BIG GUN and won't hesitate to use it, should someone decide to hurt me because I use the n word.) You want the negative power of the n word to go away? Bring it into the mainstream english language like 'paki' (in the UK) or 'lolo' in olele hawai'i and turn it into just another expletive. To have black ppl using it and then getting angry if a white person uses it, just supports my contention that in 2009, racism is BLACKS blaming WHITEs for their own lack of initiative and success. BTW, now that you have your 'black president' (who was raised by his WHITE grandparents and deserted by his black sperm donor), accept this reality: NO MORE WHITE GUILT, PPL. NOW you cannot blame 'whitey' for anything. It's your CHOICE to succeed, or live on welfare and spend it on gold coverings for your 'teef'.

Summary of The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

The debate over the N word touches almost every aspect of American popular culture. Does it ever have an appropriate place in the media? Are rappers justified in using it? Should Huckleberry Finn, which repeats it 215 times, be taught in high school?
As the cultural critic Jabari Asim explains, none of these questions can be addressed effectively without a clear knowledge of the word's bitter legacy. Here he draws on a wide range of examples from science, politics, the arts, and more to reveal how the slur has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the last four hundred years. He examines the contributions of such well-known figures as Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain, W.E.B. Du Bois and Margaret Mitchell, Dave Chappelle and NWA. Through this history, Asim shows how completely our national psyche is affected by the use of the word, and why it's such a flashpoint today.

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