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I have to admit to the exact opposite reaction to that word. I want to shout ‘good god, get over it. it’s an important word in our current language’. Yes, it comes from ‘to blacken’, but that does not necessarily connote African American – because ‘to blacken’ has been a concept in our Western European culture long before we had slavery. You blacken out words you do not like when you edit. You black ball a person you do not want in your club. You blacken a home with tar in teh 1600’s to signify a witch lives there. The devil has always been portrayed as living in black space. Black is night, it’s dark, and ‘monsters’ live there from the time we are young enough to imagine them. it’s not all about ‘black americans’ – though our ancient views that ‘black’ in general is evil and ‘white’ in general is good, may well be why we found it so easy to enslave the African population as we did.

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Name : Kip26395, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 30, City : Boulder, State : CO, Country : United States, Occupation : what ever pays the bills, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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