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Non-English word use of negro, negroe and negra reinforce the use of the derivative 'nigger' in the United States. It is said that in the Spanish language, negro and negra refer to latinos and latinas that are 'close partners' without racial connotation. The Portuguese use of negro to mean black, and the history of the Portuguese with African slave trading and early colonization meant that the appelation 'nigger' and the derivative 'niggah' would be around for some time in the English language too. The United States, as a nation visited more frequently by globalists than the bathrooms of Yankee Stadium, also receives much of the language usages from those abroad. 'Nigger' may be with us for some time. Wrangling over racial advantage and positioning is a fact of life. The United States may be foreclosed upon by the circumstance of history and wasting debt disease before the word negro fades into oblivion. We shall stitll hope it disappears from use more quickly than that.

One should ban the over-worked word Nigger' from the broadcast lexicon. One should also ban the broadcast media from corporate control and reallocate it for internet downloads in high tech for ordinary U.S. Internet writers and podcasters.

Too much the word nigger' is forced upon a lay down electorate unfortunate enough to listen to radio or rip rap music stations. Intelligence is generally as devoid from existence in this contextual association as it might be in aggressive talk radio, old-time rock and roll stations or in country music dedicated to being servo-units of oil corporations. For some reason to slip a nigger' in to a badly written piece of music' is hip'. What America obviously needs is a lot more gangsterism at a more racially unbiased level to really get things going economically speaking. While it may be politically a bad idea to censor anyone neither is it a good idea to provide broadcast platforms to let the corrupt intimidate anyone with free demotion or general mass exclusion training.

Silencing political dissidence of substance is a difficult task even Robert Mugabe may have encountered discomfort with; human nature will need to change before adverse references to opposition social groups fades into history. A continuum of change to more peaceful, profitable and pacific directions can occur with proper political leaders. Richard Nixon and Janet Reno weren't much alike in a few ways yet each are thought by some to have repressed civil liberties either through secret enemies

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