The word is offensive, but it is just a word. You cant ban a word. You can feel free to use it, just as the person hearing it can feel free to kick the crap out of you. Its one of those use at your own risk words. As far as radio and tv personalities go, they have rules and a responsibility to the public. They cant really cry about freedom of speech when they agree to FCC guidelines. On the topic of slavery, probably all of us had at one point in history, an ancestor who was a slave. How long can we call foul on that? What does something that happened thousands, or even hundreds of years before you were born have to do with your lives today. How long can this be used as an excuse to cry discrimination?
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