Racial Slurs Should Be Illegal Essay

Nicholas Gomez

Words cannot break my bones but stick and bones can. Derogatory terms like nigger, chinks, spics, and fagots should be ban or used. Racial slurs like niggers, chinks, spics, and fagots should be ban. Some African Americans believe that the word nigger should ban and others think that the word should be used. Many people believe that the derogatory words mean more than it seems like nigger can be traced back to slavery. Some African Americans believe that nigger means something different now and it not offensive. People do not have the right to call an ethnic group a racial slur when they know that the word would offend
A racial slur would not be harsh when a person of the same racial group is saying it. Some African Americans used the word nigger because nigger is not offence when an African American say it to another. When a white person calls a black person nigger, the black person usually gets offend. There are laws made that these racial slurs should not be used. The Gay/Lesbian communities do not like people calling them fagots because it makes them feel uncomfortable of being gay. If people know that, a word is offensive they have no right to say it. A person’s pride is very important and it should not be taken away from
Nigger reminds African Americans of slavery and the hard years they went through. Slavery was a period when African Americans were captured from Africa and brought to America to become slaves. Slavery was hard on African Americans because they had no freedom and life was just horrible. African Americans do not like to be remember slavery and when nigger is said it brings them the taught of slavery. Racial words insult ethnic groups and it reminds them of what the majority group did to them in the past. Racial slurs remind minorities like Asian Americans of their struggles and their civil rights