So if the HRC says we're to eradicate the F-word from our language, just as the NAACP says we're to get rid of the N-word, then why do we allow the exceptions to the rule, and end up praising the offenders as friends of our communities?
One, for many Americans, the w-word isn't as ugly or offensive as the n-word.
Speaking on Radio 4's Front Row, David Oyelowo said the Oscar-winning star had been asked to say "the n-word" in The Paperboy by director Lee Daniels.
Who remembers when Duane "Dog" Chapman was caught using the N-word on his son's answering machine?
Do they want their child or student to engage with the questions around the N-word (or any other word for that matter) now or later?
Some critics questioned why the N-word was unacceptable in Huck Finn but OK in the works of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
FORBES: New Edition Of 'Huck Finn' To Eliminate N-Word -- For The Children
In response to my Tracy Morgan piece, I had gays and lesbians write me saying that I didn't say the same about Michael Richards or other examples of people who have used the N-word.
More interesting than the proliferation of hip n' hipster following the Beat poets are the claims to the word's origins.
George Silverman, author of The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing and an Orangeburg, N.
There have been a couple of previous attempts to define and propagate Fauxhemia(n), notably by Urban Dictionary, which specifically attached the word to a place where trendiness hides the high rents and trust funds.
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