![]() ![]() If anything, in 2014, it is the very notion of banning the n-word that appears dead and fit for burial. Never mind the troublesome optics of a group of mostly white NFL executives dictating the language rules of a majority-black player pool. And more than likely, it will prove too complex and nuanced to be policed by football referees wielding yellow flags and penalties. It is too ingrained in youth culture to be eliminated from city streets, as the New York City Council attempted with a symbolic resolution banning the word the same year. The word is too essential as an urban slang term to be placed in a casket and buried, as NAACP delegates attempted to do in a 2007 mock “funeral” for the word. If there is one thing certain about the modern n-word - a shifty organism that has managed to survive on these shores for hundreds of years by lurking in dark corners, altering its form, splitting off into a second specimen and constantly seeking out new hosts, all the while retaining its basic and vile DNA - it is that it defies black-and-white interpretations and hard-and-fast rules. But like the others, it is almost certainly doomed to fail to be ignored, at best - or mocked and flouted, at worst. ![]()
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