Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.
At the zoo, I stood in front of the primate cage listening to a woman marvel at how presidential the four-hundred-pound gorilla looked sitting astride a shorn oaken limb, keeping a watchful eye over h...
I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word nigger leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it...
Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.
