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During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, prominent Black community leaders tried to come to consensus over which term would be better suited to refer to people of Black African descent, for example; colored people, African American and negroes were among the contenders; of which the latter is of Latin origin same as the N-word
. Invariably, this word (which originally denoted the color black and was used simply to differentiate a genetic trait) became a racial slur that has proven to be more detrimental to a particular group than any other put- down, “
F___
your mother” included. More recently, the N-word has taken on different forms. While it is still clearly considered an insult to end all insults by the majority

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