What’s Funny About “The Departed”

‘Nigger’ is a word white people don’t get to use. My Year 8 students ask me why: “Black people call each other that all the time, Miss!” I stammer: “There’s connotations—meanings—in that word that suggests ‘hate’, when white people say it to black people.” My students constantly voice their disgust for things by saying, “That’s [...]

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