Posted on 11/03/2015 4:49:07 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Shaun King: Iâve been called the N-word since I was 14, but now those same people want me to be white
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For the last 22 years of my life, I've been called a n****r. And now they want me to be white.
In 1993, I was a freshman at Woodford County High School in rural Versailles, Ky. On a dozen different occasions, white students brazenly used the slur to my face, put it on notes in my locker, and yelled it from passing vehicles. Occasionally some of my friends and I would build up enough courage to report it. The racist students would deny it. Nothing would happen. Eventually, we just stopped reporting it altogether.
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The worst racists are the lighter-skinned blacks, not white enough for whites, not black enough for blacks, but they tend to be the most militant to try to prove they really are black, Jeremiah Wright immediately comes to mind.
"What a silly negro."
Funny LOL!
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