Randall Kennedy

And I think that to the extent that lots of people make a distinction between them, I think, you know, just as a sociological fact, they are different.

I think that people who get upset if somebody, especially white people,

So, you know, if a white person says nigga and they're, you know, and they're, you know, sort of criticized about it and they say, well, I didn't say nigger.

I said nigga.

Believe me, I think most people who are mad at them are going to stay mad at them.

Now, you raise the word, you know, so nigger and nigga, I would put.

in a very different category than Negro.

Educate me here.

Well, yeah, sure.

I'm happy to.

Negro is a... Also controversial.

It's also controversial.

But... Negro...

It's never been viewed by a substantial number of people as a derogatory term, at least with the same amount of animus, the same amount of, it's a very different kind of word than nigger or nigga.

I mean, after all, I mean, you know, negro, Martin Luther King Jr.,

all of his great oratory, Negro.

You read the work of the great W.E.B.

Du Bois, Negro.

You read the work of my boss.

For instance, I use the word Negro