'I was not expecting my 5-year-old daughter, skipping down the street and proudly holding my hand, to look up at me and ask, 'Mommy, what's the n-word?''
, but even without that vocabulary, kids can understand the idea of taking back a word to redistribute its power. You could use the example of words like, which you might use to talk about yourself with something like pride, but would feel hurt to hear coming from someone else.
Kids who want to use the word to fit in among their peers may argue that its meaning has changed or that the variation that ends in -a, rather than -er, is different somehow. Explain that everyone still recognizes it as the n-word. The word's violence goes back centuries, and it still carries hateful connotations.
Another scenario that Enna has seen is a child who is not Black being given a "pass" to use the word by a Black friend. But no one person can represent an entire race. Enna points out that if you have to ask permission to use a word, that's really proof enough that you shouldn't be using it.one
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