Categories Miscellany

The Word “Nigger”

10 years later edit (March 24, 2019): I’ve grown as a person in the past ten years. Many of the things I wrote here – about how it doesn’t make sense for it to be okay for black people to use the word nigger, my then-scorn for the guy in Continue Reading

Categories Miscellany

Black vs. African-American

I am 3/8 black, 1/8 Hispanic, 4/8 Caucasian, and 0/8 African-American. How can you be 3/8 black and 0/8 African-American, Lena?