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Mock burial photo from NAACP.org
Negritude 2.0: The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its RelevanceNigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Wordby Randall KennedyPantheon BooksJanuary 2002, 226 pages, $22 (U.S.)[30 July 2007]by Mark ReynoldsOur enemy is not the "N-word" itself; it’s whatever propels people to use it. We need healers, not language nannies.
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