I do not understand why some folks are still fighting the war between the states.
Having said that, on the subject of the N word, I was in the liquor store Saturday when a tall young black man walked carring a basketball, and the proprietor of the liquor store, Jamaican I believe, told the young man he couldn't be in the liquor store with a basketball. And so, the young black began verbally abusing the proprietor - calling him a N among other things.
Now I'm the only white person there, watching one black man call another black man a N !
There's no room in our world for this term. When will we move on - on both accounts, the war between the states and calling someone a N?
Because the issues and equities aren't resolved yet to everyone's satisfaction.
And in a constitutionally-bound democracy in which the People are sovereign and answer only to God Himself (not their government, or an elite class of East Coast old-moneyed "malefactors of great wealth"), not having things resolved to everyone's satisfaction is not a stable state.
Or permanent.