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A brilliant and offensive book

My generation--the tail-end
of X, or early Millennials--grew up in a time of soft racism and racial
inequality; we were also brought up to be tolerant and "color blind." Like most of
my peers, I wouldn't be caught dead using the n-word (despite being a bit of a
profanity connoisseur). I was taught that it's the most abhorrent of
epithets--although I also grew up exposed to hip-hop artists and comedians who
use the word with what seems like impunity.