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This post on ESPN dates back to 2014 which made it really cool to read because I was able to see how things have changed, and how things haven't. I am a big follower of sports, especially the NBA, and when I was younger I would look up to many athletes and strive to be like them, and that is why it is important for them to stand up for what is right. In the article there were examples of NBA owners being racist, for example the L.A Clippers owner who had his team taken away, and he was banned for life. I feel that it is important they have strict rules on racism as the younger population really watches theses adults and looks up to them. As you can see in the picture, NBA superstars like Kobe Bryant and Lebron James even stand up for these causes. For me, it really helps the regulating cyber-bulling campaign as you have stars with a lot of power and a lot of fans helping your cause. After reading this article that dates back to 2014, it seems as though not much has changed in the 2 years since it was written, but that does not mean it's never going to change. Things must come to and end or racism will continue to get worse and that is why these athletes with large followings need to really step up and touch the younger audience that looks up to them, change the future, I think it can be done.

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Dec 30, 2014

Richard LapchickContributing Writer, ESPN.com

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American leader of the sports boycott of South Africa from 1975 until the end of apartheid

Chair of the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida

Author of 16 books and the annual Racial and Gender Report Card

Directs UCF's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport

Director of the National Consortium for Academics and Sport

2014 has been a year of intense discussion about race in America. The shootings of unarmed African-Americans by police and the subsequent grand jury decisions in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner on Staten Island, New York, have set off a series of debates about the current nature and extent of racism in America.

More specifically, 2014 was filled with news stories about racism in sports. Although it seems we have made much progress in hiring practices in our front offices and league offices, there are still racial issues in sports we must deal with both domestically and, especially, internationally.

What was different about 2014 in sports were the newly raised voices of athletes speaking out on racial issues.

Through Dec. 23, there were 17 reported domestic incidents of racism in sports and 89 reported international incidents in 2014.

Domestically there were 10 incidents of racism in football, six in basketball and one in the UFC.

The NBA dealt with two major incidents of racism: the leaked tape of Donald Sterling's racist remarks and Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson's self-reported email with racist content. A third owner's remarks were also questioned.

The most widely discussed case was that of Sterling, the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Although Sterling's racist comments were not news to many, given his past, hearing the shocking words on the audio recording was enough to have him removed as owner of the team and handed a lifetime ban from commissioner Adam Silver.

On Sept. 7, reports came that an email written by Levenson in 2012 included racist remarks. The email was self-reported by Levenson.

In the email, Levenson theorized that the team's struggle to fill the arena was because "the black crowd scared away the whites, and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant season-ticket base." The email was sent to other members of team management. Levenson announced he would sell his controlling interest in the team.

In October, Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber listed "hoodish" as one of the languages he planned to learn. Guber, who is Jewish, later said he intended to say "Yiddish."

The National Football League, though currently dealing with domestic violence and child abuse incidents, has had recent trouble with racism as well. In 2013, there was an investigation into the Miami Dolphins' locker room that started out as a bullying inquiry but also uncovered racism and homophobia directed toward offensive lineman Jonathan Martin, another young offensive lineman and an unnamed assistant trainer of Asian descent. According to the NFL, three Dolphins offensive linemen used verbal harassment and text messages, in which they often referenced shooting black people and raping Martin's sister. This scandal prompted discussion on the use of derogatory racial terms such as the N-word in sports.

The full report on the Dolphins' incident was released in February.

Racism not only affected sports at the professional level but also at the collegiate and high school levels. In August, a Miami high school football team reportedly received a racist letter before the team made a trip to Alabama for a nationally televised game. The coach claimed the letter told him to "remind your [expletive] who were traveling to Birmingham to pick up their chicken bones and red cups from which they drink their Kool-Aid and liquor out of."

There was also an incident at the collegiate level in which a Texas Tech "super fan" allegedly called one of the country's best college basketball players, Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State, the N-word and told him to "go back to Africa," though the claims were never confirmed.

The number of racial incidents in America does not come close to the number reported internationally over the past year. This was especially true in soccer. Of 89 incidents, 80 were in international soccer, three in rugby, two in basketball, two with former Olympians and one each in cricket and hockey.

Fan racism continued to plague the international soccer community. It got so bad that governing bodies had to close arenas during matches, cancel matches and fine teams. There were reports of racial slurs, racial chants, anti-Semitic chants, waving of Nazi flags, bananas thrown on the field, racial abuse, monkey gestures and racist signs/banners. Forty soccer players and one entire team were reportedly racially abused by fans and spectators in 2014.

No international incident was worse than when Carlo Tavecchio made racist comments during his campaign for president of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC). During the 2014 election, Tavecchio referred to African international soccer players as "banana eaters."

Despite drawing much criticism for the comments, Tavecchio was elected president of Italian soccer's governing body. Originally, the Italian FA had cleared him of any wrongdoing over the remark, but FIFA and UEFA decided to impose a ban that would make Tavecchio ineligible for any position as a FIFA or UEFA official for six months.

International basketball also saw its share of racially charged incidents. After Real Madrid's loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final of Europe's main basketball tournament in May, almost 18,000 anti-Semitic messages appeared on Twitter. During the investigation into the incident, Esteban Ibarra, the president of Spanish advocacy group Movement Against Intolerance, claimed his office identified more than 1,500 websites, pages or blogs in Spain that promoted racism or anti-Semitism.

On the positive side, this past year also showed sport can be one of the most powerful platforms in the fight against injustice and racism. During the Sterling scandal, we saw Clippers players take a stand against their racist owner by turning their jerseys inside out during warm-ups and even threatening to sit out playoff games. Silver took as strong a stand as might have ever been seen in sports when he banned Sterling for life.

More recently, the decisions by separate grand juries not to try the police officers involved in the deaths of Brown and Garner provoked players in the NFL, NBA, WNBA and men's and women's college basketball to make their disappointment public.

On Nov. 30, St. Louis Rams players Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Kenny Britt took the field during pregame introductions in the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" pose used by protesters in Ferguson, in reference to the Michael Brown case.

NBA superstars LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose, Kyrie Irving and others wore "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts during pregame warm-ups to put a focus on the Eric Garner grand jury decision. Kevin Durant also wrote "Black Lives Matter" on his game shoes before the nationally televised game between his Oklahoma City Thunder and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

As someone who has tried for decades to urge athletes to use their powerful platform to address difficult social issues, I am heartened by these recent efforts. Over the past 60 years, you can count the number of activist athletes on two hands. Among them have been Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Curt Flood, Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Arthur Ashe.

There have been recent hopeful moments. In 2013, AC Milan star Kevin Prince-Boateng kicked the ball toward the crowd, took off his jersey and walked off the field, followed by his entire team. Prince-Boateng, who is from Ghana, had been racially taunted by the fans throughout the game.

With five NBA superstars now standing tall, I hope others will find their courage and join them before the news cycle passes. With them, sport can continue to use its powerful platform for social change. Society cannot afford another Ferguson or Staten Island, and sport cannot afford to witness another 106 reported incidents of racism in 2015.

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Dec 30, 2014 Richard LapchickContributing Writer, ESPN.com Close American leader of the sports boycott of South Africa from 1975 until the end of apartheid Chair of the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida Author of 16 books and the annual Racial and Gender Report Card Directs UCF's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport Director of the National Consortium for Academics and Sport 2014 has been a year of intense discussion about race in America.

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Today we would like to say that racism is better than it was 50 years ago, 10 years ago, and even 5 years ago, but we honestly have to think twice before saying that. In the introduction, the writer has already told us that in Australia, 35% of people witness or go through cyber-racism, which is quite a lot. To me racism has gotten somewhat better, but somewhat worse in other ways. In todays society, we don't see as much racism anymore person to person, that has started to go away which is good, racism is very bad, but the honest truth is that racism on the internet is very bad. People don't think about it because they are behind a computer screen, but words hurt and affect others, and all over the internet you see racist posts and racists memes and stereotypes. So in some ways this post relates to racial profiling, because a lot of people use peoples race on the internet to stereotype them and to racially profile them with mean racist jokes. I feel that the internet is a very dangerous place, and people need to start being more careful about the things they say and what they post, because things on the internet stay on the internet, and if one day we don't want any racism at all, if one day we want our kids to be kind to everyone, they can't be influenced by these bad racists remarks on the internet. Bullying is real, and has a big affect on people, even to the point of suicide, so just because you're behind a screen, that does not make it okay to say whatever you want.

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The Age of Racial Profiling in the Context of Terrorism. 

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The Age of Racial Profiling in the Context of Terrorism. 

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This piece of writing for me was a very fun piece to read. I enjoyed this piece because this year I am in crime and justice and we have gone over racial profiling. As for the actual writing, I completely agree with all the points in the piece. Racial profiling is very wrong and should not be allowed. I feel strongly about this because many of my friends are not just white, I have friends of all races and ethnic backgrounds and I care about them all and would not want any of them being racial profiled or treated poorly. In our society today racial profiling happens a lot more than we think, and it may not seem that way because of where we grew up as in places like Maine and New Hampshire you don't see it quite as much. As for the bad, racial profiling that continues to go on will only continue to create tension between police officers and certain people, for example the black lives matter and things of that nature. Also, although I feel racial profiling is completely wrong, I have to admit that a lot of people may overreact to what is not racial profiling. I feel this way because if someone just robbed a store and you have a definition of the person and the skin color is black, then you must say it to maybe help find the suspect, and if someone down the street matches the description then I feel that's not racial profiling, it is to protect other people. Racial profiling is searches and frisks for no reason, and being pulled over in your car because of the color of your skin, now that is racial profiling and we see that a lot in todays society which is how it relates to our everyday lives. Racial profiling is wrong and we have to put a stop to it, stopping it will only make things more safe and create less tension.

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After listening to this poem, it really touched me. As I listened, I got the chills, because everything he was saying was true. This poem could relate to many other pieces, like the video on the N-WORD, the post on How to Raise a Black Son in America, and so many more writing pieces. Today, as a generation and growing up, we see stereotypes a lot, and these stereotypes sometimes are meant to be jokes, but not everyone looks at them the same way and they are very racist. This man talks about how these things affect him, how he has feelings too, and that really touched me, because when you stop and think, he is right, people are always using stereotypes about Asians and using bad derogatory terms like "gook" or "chink". The man in the video, he was talking about when he was younger, how he grew up and things seemed pretty bad, and that just goes to show you, and all of us, how lucky we really are, and as a nation and as a society, as a generation, we need to treat everyone with the same respect and just try your best to make others happy and not try to make them sad or put them down, and we all, as a world will be so much better off.

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Alex Dang (Ft. Alex Dang) - What Kind of Asian are You?

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So he said to me: "What kind of Asian are you?" / And I said back: / That's a loaded question. / What kind of Asian do you EXPECT me to be? / Because any way you slice that egg

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For me this poem was kind of hard for me to understand. For me I could get out of it that todays generation isn't how it should be. In the poem the writer talks a lot about ancestors and "our children" which represents our society, or the young black generation. The writer talks about how the older generation fought for the younger generations freedom and rights, they gave the younger generation opportunities and rights they never had. That to me is the main message of the poem, it really makes you think and ask yourself, if the older generation came back today, if they saw our society today, would they be proud of us, and this poem is prioritized to focus on the young black generation, but i feel this ties into our society as a whole and we don't have to just single out one single race or skin color. Look at our society or nation as a whole, race and skin color should no longer be a factor in anything, that is the only way we will stop racism and such, if we make sure every aspect of our lives has nothing to do with race. As for comparing this poem to other sources, to me I can really relate it to the video clip on THE N-WORD, which I feel it is because both relate to our society today and are everyday issues.

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BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,
our children no longer give us honor.

BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared
kneeling in perilous undergrowth,
our children cannot find their way.

BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors,
our children cannot pray.

BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing,
our children cannot hear us crying.

BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering,
our befuddled children give birth to children
they neither want nor understand.

BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our
gates, an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting,
'Regard the loveless'

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our
lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate,
to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things,
knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.

We ARE our brothers and sisters.

IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues,
and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.

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The Black Family Pledge Poem by Maya Angelou - Poem Hunter

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BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,our children no longer give us honor. BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors clearedkneeling in perilous undergrowth,our children cannot find their way. BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors,our children cannot pray. BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing,our children cannot hear us crying.

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This short story for me was very hard to get an understanding out of. For me it didn't really seem to have a message. Although I didn't really get a message, I still did like the story. It is kind of hard to relate to other writing pieces as well, but it kind of relates to everyday life. In the story, these white folk are trying to hard, they try too hard to make "friends" or to try and get these black people to like them. I see this in everyday life, especially being in high school where a lot of kids are worried about how many friends they have and their popularity. In the story we see that because the folks try too hard, other people are weirded out and want to be away from them more, and the same result happens in our everyday life. Today if you keep bothering someone and are really non-stop bugging them, it's going to make them not want to become your friend, they will get annoyed, and that's what we saw in this story, as when the boy first got there he thought they were great, but they never left him alone and bugged him most the time to do all these things, and then by the end he couldn't stand them.

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On this page there were 10 different Ted talks, I chose the third one- How to Raise a Black Son in America. I thought this Ted talk was really really good, so good in fact that in the middle of watching it, it gave me the chills. I could see the affect and the reality behind Clint Smiths voice when he spoke, I could feel the passion through the computer screen and I could picture real life problems. Everyday we see things on the news, we all hear about the problems of black people vs. police, and sometimes I feel things are just being overreacted to and sometimes things aren't handled the right way, but this doesn't take away the message Clint Smith is sharing with us and it doesn't take away from him that he is indeed speaking the truth. Today in the world no matter who it is, how old the kid, if you're in the wrong neighborhood or not, if you have a toy gun then someone may assume it is real, but what makes it worse is that Smith is right, the skin color of the kid easily can affect this, and it is really sad to think about. Parents are scared for their own kids lives, and it's not the fear we saw Jim have for his family or any slaves for that matter, that was a different type of fear, today as a world and society we are all about equality and such, but in reality we are far from it, there are way too many stereotypes that affect us as a nation and will continue to affect us as long as we have the stereotypes. To me this was very easy to relate to my everyday life and society, I have many friends of color and I even have family who is of a different color, and I am lucky that where I live today, and where my family lives, that although this stuff happens everywhere, they are safer here, in Maine and or New Hampshire than many other states out there.

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Teachers often use TED Talks in the classroom to introduce a lesson topic or to frame a student discussion. Below are 10 TED Talks about race in America - curated by TED-Ed upon educator request - that teachers may find useful in the classroom:
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10 TED classroom resources about race in America

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Teachers often use TED Talks in the classroom to introduce a lesson topic or to frame a student discussion.

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In this article, it give examples of events after 9/11. One example is that a man kills a store owner and says he wanted to go out and kill towl heads, and then he yells things like "I am a patriot!!". I understand the conflict of patriotism vs. racism, because in that case it seems like patriotism is leading to racism, but I don't think it is. I feel this way because you have to look at it from different perspectives, there are many people that are patriots that fight for everyone in our country as a whole, they are proud to be an american, and you can't say patriotism is wrong just because someone does something bad and says they are a patriot. We as a nation don't support that and that is not an act of patriotism. There are many bad people in the world, people of all races, and we as an entire nation are not supporting these few racist people who may claim to be patriotism, because patriotism doesn't cause these murdering acts and such things. Patriotism is the vigorous support of ones country, not the hatred for another race. Also in this article, the author says at the end he knows that true patriotism is working together as a community to protect eachother, working together to try and form the perfect union.

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After the attacks of September 11, 2001, patriotism took on many masks and many faces. For some it meant planting flags in their front yards and cherishing the rights we enjoy in this country. For others it took on a flawed and dangerous form. Violence against South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, and Arab Americans skyrocketed in the weeks and months after 9/11. New government policies painted our communities with suspicion and guilt. The notion that patriotism and racism are synonymous was used against us after 9/11, and the horror has lasted 16 years, flowing and ebbing under Presidents Bush and Obama. That notion has only increased in fury under the Trump administration.

I was in New York on 9/11, working downtown not too far from the attacks. In the days that followed I feared for my safety for the first time in my life: not from planes nose-diving from the sky, but from assaults on the subway or on the street. These fears were not misplaced. The first shots fired after the attacks were on September 15 in Mesa, Arizona, when Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas station owner, was killed by Frank Silva Roque, a racist gunman who wanted to "go out and shoot some towel-heads." During his arrest Roque screamed, "I am a patriot! I stand for America all the way!" This is how he pledged allegiance to our flag.

Our communities experienced many ensuing acts of hate. In the first week after 9/11, 645 bias incidents nationwide were reported by media organizations. In the months that followed, our houses of worship were surveilled by the NYPD and other law-enforcement agencies, our rights were violated and our dignity stripped at airports, and our children were bullied in school and harassed on the Internet. Government policies such as the Patriot Act and the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System were implemented, the latter of which opened cases against 83,000 Muslims entering or living in the United States. The result of this vast ethnic profiling? Zero terrorism-related convictions.

Meanwhile, the body count in our communities has mounted. In 2012, a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was attacked by a gunman who killed six people and wounded four others before taking his own life. In 2015, three young Arab students in North Carolina were murdered in their homes by their white-supremacist neighbor. In 2016, a Lebanese-American man was shot and killed on his own porch by a racist neighbor who had a documented history of anti-Arab hate. Related Article

In 2017, our communities are facing hate violence at levels that rival the aftermath of 9/11. The Trump administration-which is now implementing policies that mirror his bigoted rhetoric on the campaign trail-continues to roll out anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policies that embolden hate groups to attack our communities. President Trump has test-fired several versions of the "Muslim ban," rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and strongly supported the RAISE Act that seeks to slash immigration by 50 percent in a decade, as well as implementing other destructive policies. Since the presidential election, South Asian Americans Leading Together has documented over 150 incidents of violence against those who identify or are perceived as Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, South Asian, Middle Eastern, or Arab American, already surpassing totals from the year leading up to the 2016 election. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anti-Muslim hate groups grew by 197 percent in 2016, and, according to the FBI, anti-Muslim hate crimes increased by 67 percent in 2015.

In February two Indian-Americans were shot by a gunman screaming, "Get out of my country." Days later a Sikh man was shot on his driveway in Washington State by an assailant screaming, "Go back to your country." In August a Minnesota mosque was firebombed in what the governor rightly declared an "act of terrorism." In May, Jeremy Joseph Christian, a known white supremacist, harassed a Muslim passenger on a commuter train in Portland. When three men tried to intervene, Christian stabbed two of them to death. Reminiscent of Roque's racism in 2001, Christian proclaimed at his arraignment, "You call it terrorism; I call it patriotism!"

After these attacks, the president remains silent. His silence is a clear signal to the Roques and the Christians of the world that white supremacy and Islamophobia are not only admirable, they are patriotic.

Our communities know that the highest form of patriotism is dissent: We have lived it for 16 years. We've spoken out when we've seen injustice, and we've crowded airports to protest an unlawful "Muslim ban." We've stood united with those from all faiths, colors, and backgrounds, against racism and division in Charlottesville, Boston, Berkeley, and beyond. We've stared down ACT for America-the nation's largest anti-Muslim hate group-and forced them to cancel nationwide Islamophobic rallies originally scheduled for September 9.

The toxic patriotism that hate groups have practiced for 16 years has brought our diverse communities together, anchored in a patriotism of love, not fear. This September 11, I will remember that this is the true patriotism-working with our communities to protect each other, and in doing so, to form a more perfect union.

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Too Many Americans Think Patriotism Means Racism and Xenophobia

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In this piece the author talks about the book as a whole in the first couple pages. He says how he read the book multiple times and how he had hated it. After reading the first couple pages it started to kind of just nag at me why he hated the book, because I thought the book was very good, I loved it, and id read it and do all the work for it all over again. Then as he goes on in page 4 he talks about Huck being suicidal and says other things that I just do not understand. When i was reading the book i never noticed this and maybe the reason he didn't like the book very much and I did was because we both see the book in different ways. Also he mentions Jim as to how he helped Huck. I agree he did help Huck in many ways morally and consciously but in his writing I don't really understand the way he tells us Jim helped Huck, in my opinion I feel he is overthinking the book. Although I did not agree with the author at the beginning, I personally loved the way he ended his writing and he was spot on about Huck and Tom Sawyer and the entire society aspect. Also the last line he said I really liked talking about the book being classic literature and that it will always bring up questions and can always be looked at and the book can never be "dismissed" because there are always way to look at it/ examine the text.

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In the video clip I watched, the three topics I chose were "because african americans use the word, it's okay for anyone to use it.". The second part of the video was on how a ban on the word would be a pointless rule and the last big topic was on how in todays society the word is used as a term for "buddy" or "dude". While I was watching this video it really made me think back to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because the N-word is used in that book so much and quite freely. In that book, the word is mostly used to describe property, these black people were property and not really looked at as people. In the book, the word also is used as a derogatory by certain people, like Pap for example, and that is how it is used a lot today. In todays society, we as people use it two ways, one is it's used as a term to talk with your friends, kids say it all the time, instead of saying what's up dude, they replace the dude part with the N-word. The second way the word is used is that it is used to insult someone, it's used as a bad name or word. In the video I watched on the N-word, I really understood it and loved the setup. The video was straight to the point and was easy to relate to our everyday lives and society because they even did that part for you. I wouldn't mind watching more of these as it doesn't even seem like work because it's actually an everyday issue that affects my society and I enjoyed hearing about it and what others or adults think and how we can help fix it.

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The n-word: An interactive project exploring a singular word

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After the National Football League made the controversial decision to ban the n-word on the field this year, a team of Washington Post journalists explored the history of the word, its evolution and its place in American vernacular today.