After reading the first chapter. One passage in the first chapter really jumped out at me.
"Before the 1970's, however, nigger seldom figured in the routines of professional comedians. It was especially rare in the acts of those who performed for racially mixed audiences. Asserting that unmentionable slurs derived much of their seductive power from their taboo status, the iconoclastic white comedian Lenny Bruce recommended a strategy of subversion through overuse. In a 1963 routine, Bruce suggested with characteristic verve that "if President Kennedy got on television and said, 'Tonight I'd like to introduce the niggers in my cabinet,' and he yelled 'Niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger' at every nigger he saw...til nigger didn't mean anything anymore, till nigger lost its meaning...you'd never hear any four-year-old nigger cry when he came home from school."" (pg. 31)
This isn't exactly Kennedy's point, but I agree with what the comedian said in a way. If people wouldn't use the n-word in a bad connotation, but used it in a good way, everything would be so much better. As the comedian said, if people were used to hearing it said in a good way, kids would grow up thinking of it in a good way and eventually everybody would too.
