A review by outcolder
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy

5.0

Anyone concerned with the grey areas in Free Speech would benefit from reading this well thought out and argued book. But it isn't all serious head-scratching. Most of the book is actually jaw-dropping-ly shocking examples of uses of the N-word. I found myself thinking, as I often do, that legal remedies are not the way to improve our society. I don't agree with everything Kennedy stands for in this work, but I do agree that it is best to avoid use of a word that has been called the "nuclear bomb" of racial epithets.