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Randall Kennedy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

unique term.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Well, am I deliberate?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

The answer is yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

And let me unpack that a little bit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

First, that's right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

I mean, am I deliberate?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ 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 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

And, you know, was that deliberate?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Yeah, that was quite deliberate.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

The title could have been N-Word.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Sure.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

The title could have been N-Word.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ 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 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

I could have named it that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

There are many titles I could have used.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Did I want a title that would be provocative?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

Did I want a title that would grab people?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#379 โ€“ Randall Kennedy: The N-Word โ€“ History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

The answer to that is yes.