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A racist called me the n-word today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.
As someone who’s publicly taught, discussed and written about race for more than two decades, I’ve been called more racial slurs than you can imagine. While “moon cricket” is my favorite, if we searched every inbox in Black America, I’d probably rank in the top 10% of people who have been emailed the n-word. Here are just a few excerpts from messages I’ve received in the past two weeks alone:
“I’m so much more racist now because of racist tribalist n*ggers like you who lie and race grift. Well done.”
“Fuck black history! Unfortunately, Lincoln didn’t have the balls to ship all the n*ggers back to Africa & Abe’s to blame for all the black criminality in America ever since. America’s greatness is all due to white heterosexual males, not women or spooks or spics or gooks or gays.
“Black people are cool but you are a n*gger.”
“I kill n*ggers.”
“Mediocre white man like Elon is still superior to 95% black men and 100% of dumb sub-saharan race huckster n*ggers like you.”
Don’t cry for me. As a Musk-approved, verified “Hard R” on White Twitter, the language-deficient members of the so-called “superior race” who resort to the most unoriginal invective amuse me. Imagine the amount of historical ignorance required for someone to believe that the people who were subjected to centuries of rape, lynching and race-based human trafficking are the violent ones. I can’t help but giggle when someone whose cross-burning ancestors stole an entire continent assumes my son is a thief or a gangbanger because he’s wearing a hoodie.
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