Ashby, Wally Lindsay-Johnson, Beverly Nnamdi, Kojo

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Episode Number: 2805Jabari Asim, editor in chief of Crisis magazine, is interviewed on the topic of his new book, "The N Word". He discusses the recent sociolinguistic divide behind the pejorative "nigger", or "n" word. He talks about the origins of the word not just as a racial slur meant to denigrate an entire people, but the use of the word to control the intellectual concept of that people ideologically, theologically, sociologically, and biologically. He claims that the word cannot be "taken back" or "reclaimed" since the word never originated or belonged to the African American community to start. He also discusses the less popular idea that the word has created an internalized sense of inferiority in the African American community due to its nature and the abuse it rendered.

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