Posted on May 18, 2009 at 11:08am
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It is the ugliest of words when used in the wrong context; a signifier of hatred and degradation which has thankfully been exorcised from the vocabulary of the vast majority. Nigger may now be most readily associated with rap music and gangster culture but its origins are inextricably linked to the slave trade and the subjugation of black people, the effects of which still resonate within today’s society.
The word which now is thrown around as a signifier of respect and kinship by a new…
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