[RJR_fan]

The “n-word” (not going to write it here, not because it bothers me particularly, but because I don’t want my post to get pulled) is an ugly word...

The people who wish to sanitize Huckleberry Finn would have a stroke if they ever tried to read through Joel Chandler Harris's respectful and affectionate archive of slave-dialect folk tales. In both cases, a word viewed with horror today was not nearly as pejorative in its day, merely descriptive.

[jamaksin]

If I recall it correctly, use of another "n-word" caused a stir in more recent times.

That word was "niggardly." It was used properly in a town's budget hearing, and the gentlemen who spoke it was fired for it.

Seems it should, than, by all rights be stricken from our lexicon forthwith.

So it goes ...