In March, I wrote a blog post about how I feel lucky for never having had the word nigger used towards me. In 2012, decades after the Civil Rights movement, the word is still on the lips of many and is often used as venom. It continues to conjure hatred, fear and pain, the same things my mother felt when hearing it on a daily basis growing up in the segregated south.
The Jewish community has a word that conjures the same emotions for blacks: schvartzer.
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