I hate when people make a big deal of a girl carrying a tampon through a hallway in a public place. Would it be more ladylike if I bled through my shorts? If I'm not making a big deal about my period, you shouldn't either.
No, Dre's point was that only black people can use the word. Mine is that it needs to be everyone can use it or nobody can. To say only certain people can use it based on their race qualifies as racism.
All that said, the only time I personally have ever used the word was when my class read To Kill a Mockingbird, and that was after a class vote where we decided to say it as an entire class unanimously.
I'm a white teen, and these are my thoughts on it:
It's not a word to be taken lightly, and you shouldn't use it at all unless you know the people around you extremely well and know they're okay with it. But I don't think it should be publicly used. Dre's opinion in that only black…Â
"She was tired in her bones, but she rallied her energy one last time and told him of the years in Rifthold, of stealing Asterion horses and racing across the desert, of dancing until dawn with courtesans and thieves and all the beautiful, wicked creatures in the world."
Heir of Fire,…Â
"Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night. A lovely girl who gazed at the stars, and the stars who gazed back."
Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas
How did you get the name "Hogwarts?" Seriously, you have snakes with slytherin, Griffins for gryffndors, badgers for hufflepuff, Ravens for Ravenclaw, and the mascot of the entire school is a warty pig?
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