https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507 Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2020-02-18 15:49:06 UTC 2025-10-23 13:15:54 UTC hello@padlet.com scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/453041429 Dr. Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor emphasizes the appropriate use of the N-word in a school classroom setting.
#doesitbelong #whocansayit]]> 2020-03-02 16:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/453041429 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/453047657 "Our region's attitude toward race can be obscured, hidden behind our polite veneer. But the reality is, our schools and churches remain largely segregated, and it isn't uncommon to hear the N-word coming from the lips of white Christians" (Lee 26). Even today, the n-word is used to be racist against blacks.]]> 2020-03-02 16:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/453047657 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454829235 "Jim never asked no questions, he never said a word; but the way he worked for the next half an hour showed about how he was scared" (Twain 89). Many slaves during that era would face constant fear due to their race.
#racismstillhappens]]> 2020-03-05 04:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454829235 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454830524 "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and say- ing he would steal his children — children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm" (Twain 124). https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/01/humanity-huckleberry-finn-christine-norvell.htmlhttps://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/01/humanity-huckleberry-finn-christine-norvell.html]]> 2020-03-05 04:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454830524 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454832220 "It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I’d be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame"(Twain 289). Helping slaves during the slavery era was illegal, and if a white person was seen with a black person, both would face heavy criticism.]]> 2020-03-05 04:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454832220 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454836421 "The word is inextricably linked with violence and brutality on black psyches and derogatory aspersions cast on black bodies" (Price).
Throughout the era that the n-word was used, many feel that the word brings along the remembrance of traumatic times and events.]]> 2020-03-05 04:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454836421 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454836745 "There’s no way to know all of its nuances because it’s such a complicated word, a word with a particular racialized American history" (Price).
The n-word has been used for hundreds of years, and continues to be used today, despite the negative connotations many feel with the word.]]> 2020-03-05 04:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454836745 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454838713 This video reflects upon the usage of the n-word by various people in Huck Finn. #bannedbooks]]> 2020-03-05 04:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/454838713 scheuk0620 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455555452 "It was common to hear black students at Statesville High use the N-word with one another, though often swapping out the 
-er for an -a at the end of it" (Lee 98). Today, many blacks use the n-word as a type of greeting.
#shoulditbeused #regainingcontrol]]> 2020-03-06 04:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455555452 garcia0029 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455556072 “After returning from a trip from Africa in 1976, Mr. Pryor told audiences he would never use the word, “nigger” again as a performer. While abroad, he said, he saw black people running governments and businesses. And in a moment of epiphany, he said he realized that he did not see anyone he could call by that name” (Watkins).
#stopthehatred]]> 2020-03-06 04:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455556072 garcia0029 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455558805 “‘I saw myself as a victim of the system,’ Pryor said, ‘An outsider from whom justice was out of reach, a dream. And then I saw how closely my situation mirrored the black man’s larger struggle for dignity and equality and justice in white society. So I became a kind of prism, refracting the experience of race’” (Kanfer).]]> 2020-03-06 05:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455558805 garcia0029 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455559785 “‘ Landing at the airport in Nairobi, it just fills your heart up. You see everybody’s black. And you realize  that people are the same all over the world. Because people in Africa screw over your luggage just like people in New York’” (Kanfer).]]> 2020-03-06 05:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455559785 garcia0029 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455561148  Famous, Black comedian, Richard Pryor changed the game for the black community. Throughout his career he was able to connect all types of people and make everyone laugh. Most importantly the use of racial slurs were common in his acts, but towards the end of his career he had a life changing experience. Instead of seeing people by their color, he sees a human. ]]> 2020-03-06 05:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455561148 garcia0029 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455561691 “‘That’s a devastating word. That had nothing to do with us. We are from a place where they first started people... And so I vowed never to say, ‘nigger.’” (Kanfer)]]> 2020-03-06 05:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455561691 garcia0029 https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455563476 2020-03-06 05:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scheuk0620/9ez9wgdwt507/wish/455563476