Randall Kennedy
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
unique term.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Yeah.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Well, am I deliberate?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
The answer is yes.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
And let me unpack that a little bit.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
First, that's right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
I mean, am I deliberate?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Yeah.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
I deliberately wrote a book called Nigger, The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
And, you know, was that deliberate?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Yeah, that was quite deliberate.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
The title could have been N-Word.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Sure.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
The title could have been N-Word.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
The title could have been a book about a word that causes pain to many people.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
I could have named it that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
There are many titles I could have used.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Did I want a title that would be provocative?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Did I want a title that would grab people?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
The answer to that is yes.