Really brilliant article, the best articulation of the use of the word and hypocrisy of the dramatic fake apologies by whites. The question that we expect “them” to be so offended by the use of not the word but the mere suggestion of it, or perhaps the intelligent discussion of it in the case of Mike Pesca, that after centuries of repression and physical abuse, they will just collapse at hearing it, reveals the power we expect to have over them.