1. Ta-Nehisi Coates, a black writer, who grew up with the normilization of such words as “nigga”, who learned the importance rights to name through his father’s many names.
2. Events such as Richie Incognito referring to his teammates as “half-niggers”, that then exploded to conversations about wether the word should be used, and by who.
3. The audiance in question is the black community, those who believe the way to remove the violent and evil background of such a word is either through full removal, or reconstruction and normilization.
4. The main take away from this is the importance of context to a word. Where Jewish people can joke around about someone being good with money being “a good jew”, the standard isnt held the same for black people to refer to themselves as “niggas”.
5. The article had a tone of concern, where a double standard of perfection is expected from the black community to not use said word unless expected to be treated as equals with it, regardless of context.
6. I do agree with his view of the word in most cases. However, from my personal experience, such words have special meanings based around community and time. As “nigger” was built around years of discrimination and hatred against colored people. While “nigga” has a somewhat diffrent implication, built on a culture of creation and community built against the old system.
