White Niggers of America (1971)

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Sincerely sorry for submitting this title verbatim, but I was looking for a citation for Laporte's exact time of death (6:18PM) and found the whole article very interesting once I got there :)

Yurp: https://archive.is/Jr8CP

Why should you feel sorry? A title is a title. There's no obligation to censor the past nor should there be.

Totally agreed, but the past is the past and our emotionally understood meanings of words live in the present https://youtu.be/dUd9-92EEuw

The past is not just the past. The continent of people that were robbed and destroyed using this word exist very much in the present.

I can understand feeling sorry, the most offensive words in the English language are tied to a lot of undeserved trauma for certain groups of people.

Same is true if dominant groups of other countries repurposed the slurs we know. Example:

"Black Whitetrash of Nigeria"

"Brown Kikes of India"

"Yellow Crackers of China"

That was a fantastic read.

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