Nigger Blog

This book discusses the controversies of this word. I found two disturbing quotes that to me prove how disturbing and offensive this word really is.

The first is on page 18. "Recalling the difficulties she faced in raising her black son in a household with her white female lover, the poet Audre Lorde noted that 'for years in the name-calling at school, boys shouted at [her son] not--'your mother's a lesbian'--but rather--'your mother's a nigger.' The students thought that it was worse the color of her skin rather than what they say to most lesbian white mothers.

The second is on page 27. The residents of a suburb in the late 1900's thought it was worse to have a "nigger" in their neighborhood than a child molester. They raised no issues when a child molester entered, but once a few "niggers" came around they went straight to the judge to have them evicted. How sad is that. These parents would rather have the risk of their children being molested rather than be around an innocent black veteran who fought for our freedom.