I can't recall the first time I was ever called the "N" word; nor the last.
If you're any kind of evolved black man, you learn to get past B.S. like that. Put it behind you.
That's what I'll teach my son. (Since we live in Georgia, the slur's bound to be hurled his way sooner or later.)
And I'll remind him to pause and reflect on how President-elect Barack Obama reacted when the word got out that Osama bin Laden's No. 2 man, Whackadoo al-Zawahri, took Malcolm X's name in vain while referring to Obama as a "house Negro".
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Of course, the mainstream ate the clandestine message from some Afghan cave right up and spread it like Kingsford lighter fuel in the hands of a drunk uncle at a barbecue. Obama's reaction was classic: he didn't react at all.
That any Muslim leader would besmirch a man of color in that way is beyond comprehension. And it defies sanity, given the racial indignities and innuendos Obama endured during the Presidential campaign.
But such is the fate if you're born black and stand proud. Someone _ some impotent skalawag _ is going to stoop to the basest level in a desperate attempt to bring you down.
Don't take the bait. Obama's re-taught us that.
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