The “N” Word: Will It Ever Go Away

I was born when the word nigger was used by most white folk and lynching was done less for fun and more to protect white supremacy. Today the word is used by too many Black folks, and Blacks killing Blacks is now a common criminal behavior.
The Black men and women that we call heroes and “sheroes” are saluted and celebrated for their leadership and bravery in fighting for change.  I witnessed Martin’s dream and Malcolm’s valor change American laws of segregation, discrimination, and lynching in Birmingham, Alabama and across the country.
As a child and young adult I listen to Black activists and parents speak out at meetings and private groups as they speculated as to how sweet little white kids, some that they had helped raise, start to use the word nigger and hate “Negroes” so much. I can still here them say, “It’s the parents feeding them hatred.”
As I listened to them grapple with the phenomenon, I wondered why White folks who were doing us so wrong weren’t called niggers too.
I learned from my mom at an early age, after calling a woman a “White nigger” who said I couldn’t drink from a fountain in a department store, that no one deserves to be called nigger. I never used it since. I don’t like to hear it in passing and I don’t like to here it in jokes.
Over 50 years later, I wonder what happened. White people are banned from using the word nigger in public or in private; and lynching has also been banned. Now day, Black people (especially the youth) use the word nigger as a term of endearment or belittlement, and they use guns to subjugate and kill Black people. More over, a growing population of Hispanics is using the word nigger and they use guns too.
What the hell happened after Martin and Malcolm?
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