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COMMENTS: Nix the N-word
In its closing Friday feature, CBS paid tribute to Jonathan McCoy as an embodiment of The American Spirit. McCoy is an eleven-year-old from Atlanta who composed an indictment of the use of the word nigger in a speech competition. "The speech has gone viral," Byron Pitts told us. He preached it at the Empowerment Temple in Baltimore; it has received a million hits on YouTube; he addressed the freshman class at Morehouse College; he has launched an online pledge drive obtaining petitioners' promises never to use the word. McCoy himself never says it, referring to it merely as the N-word. Not only does he object to its use as a slur but also colloquially. What about the casual brotherly greeting What's up N-word? "I think it is wrong."
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