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Date Posted: 11:12:23 10/07/02 Mon
Author: Black Rose
Subject: Re: THE "N"WORD
In reply to: JAMEL ADDISON 's message, "THE "N"WORD" on 21:44:31 02/28/02 Thu

>As black history month is comin to a close in Rice
>high school as a school we decided to have a assembly
>on feb.28th the last day of the month and discuss
>certain issues of our history like the word nigger how
>it was used in a negative way before and how its used
>now in a postive way.And during this discussion our
>principal at Rice Mr.Gober feels the word is
>unappropriate no matter if people use it in a good way
>now because during slavery the whites used to use that
>name to put us down and make us look less than human
>so he got alittle uptight when we tried to tell him
>that in my generation we as blacks used the word
>nigger not to put other people thats our race down it
>has a different meaning to us now then it did then so
>this assembly that we had made me really sit and think
>about the word nigger that people in my generation use
>as if its just a regular word but its not. I feel
>terrible that i call my own race what the whites used
>to call us to put my race down. So this assembly that
>we had today makes me think twice about using the word
>nigger.