N Word In Society Today

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In society today there are still many cases of the N-word being used by different races other than African Americans. Such as schools using the N-word in class or even classmates saying it to their black classmate. Also, not only have students in school used that offensive word throughout, but teachers have been using it till this day as a racial comment towards black students (Fox news). Such as calling them the word because of having hatred towards them. The use of the word caused a teacher to get fired from her job because it had to do with racial comments and hatred towards her black students. This demonstrates that this society still shows racism today and how that one word can really offend people up until today. Unlike the word “slave”

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