White people have this idea that racism in America is somehow tied to the word "nigger". If you use it, you are a racist, if you don't there is simply no way you can be. "Nigger" has become a free pass, and that's what a lot of these people want, if you don't use it you get to say whatever you like and still be free from accusations of being a bigot. Of course, I have no trouble with someone saying what they like, feel free to throw words in my direction. If you fuck with my life that's something else, and if you want to escalate things when I throw my own words back at you, that something else too.
The truth is that you average human is truly in capable of empathy. That goes for most of the people on every side of the racial gap in America. Very few people have the imagination to see where somebody else is coming from. That kind of imagination tends to be tied to intelligence, and intelligence is a rare commodity. White people don't understand how history can still affect people now, and black people don't understand why white people don't understand.
There have been all kinds of efforts to bring people together, to close divides. They don't work because you can't give people imagination, you can't make them see, if they don't have the equipment to see. It's like trying to teach brain surgery to the retarded. No matter how good their intentions, they still won't know what the fuck you are trying to say.
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