This piece hit home for me i feel like it is very true and relevant to my daily life going from kids in my neighborhood all the way to kids in my school.
The "n" word is thrown around so much expecially in the media artist I just recently heard a song called "niggers in paris" i found to to be extremely innopropraite especially being that the artists in the song (jay - z and kanye west ) are two african american males who could use there power an influence to change in so many things but instead they are incouraging bad things .The thing that bothers me most of all is the fact that i dont think people actually know what the actual meaning of the word and how terribly degrading it is to the african american community.
i deffienietly am simular to Veralyn in the sense that the "N" word is not used in my household ever and it was a little confusing when i was young and i began to hear the word used so loosely i didn't understand it because of the fact that i was taught how the word was just as bad as a curse word is
I think that Veralyn's piece was very honest in the sense that she was open enough to admit that even she isn't perfect and that even she uses the word when she is in her comfort zone for example with her boyfriend i think that was interesting because a lot of people do the same thing .But in the end i think that this piece was insightful and really good