It's only a word, and now it's gone.

(CAUTION: The thin-skinned may find the following disturbing.)

At their July 9th annual convention, the NAACP symbolically put the word "nigger" in a casket and buried it. There were cheers and applause and the realization "No more nigger." Now we can be assured that we will never see or hear the word nigger again. No one will ever call someone a nigger, no one will ever write another book entitled "Nigger," and nigger-lovers will become a thing of the past. The Ku Klux Klan will stop using the word nigger, and for good measure, the word niggardly will disappear from the dictionary, and Mark Twain will be excised from the library.

To paraphrase the Jack Nicholson impersonator, who, after his act, said, "Is that enough 'Jack' for ya?", I ask, "Is that enough 'nigger' for ya?", or are you a hypocrite, like the NAACP, which only referred to it as "the N-word?"