Are You Racist?

Background Check

If you are looking for a more defined definition of "n****r" then goto dictionary dot com. You will see four different results that explain it best. After you get what the definition means(not what you think, but what the definition says) then continue reading this article.

In the United States, "n****r" was used as an insult all the way up until the civil rights era of the 1960's, when to most people, it became unacceptable. In today's world there is such a fine line Non-African-Americans must use it extremely cautiously, or their are instant implications of being racist. Even most of the American magazines around the country will simply call it "The N-Word" or will use asterisks for some of the letters.

The course of the word has changed within our male youth. Instead of the normal spelling, the ER is dropped and replaced with an A to look like N***a ,for those who don't understand. It's basically used now as a term of endearment like "What's up N***a" or "My N***a", even amongst other minorities other than African-Americans. Unfortunately, even for the change of the word and it's meaning, some still consider the word itself to be offensive no matter how it is spelled or how someone uses it, because the true meaning will always be there in the midst.

The Books We Read

Many of generation X and older read about the use of the word through their particular school systems in America , associated with the book Huckleberry Finn which was written in 1885. The biggest controversy was the fact that n****r was used in the book 215 times.

In 1843 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story called the The Gold Bug in which the narrator and white character used the word "Negro" to refer to the black servant, Jupiter, while Jupiter himself used the word "n****r".

There are many instances to list every single book or case , but the fact remains, how much of this is racism, how much of this is for educational purposes, and how much is just ignorant.

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