Okay, so I just read online that the NAACP is holding a funeral for the "N" word, complete with hearses and processionals waving banners that say, "Death to the 'N' word". Are they serious?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as long as you have songs on the radio that freely use the "n" word, it will continue to be accepted and repeated in our culture.

What really frosts my gizzard is the fact that you have some people enraged because the word is still used and yet, they themselves are the ones that continue to make it common vocabulary. It is the skinny white kid, singing along with Kanye West about, "I ain't sayin' she's a golddigger/but she ain't messin' with no broke ni**a", that feels the brunt of the outrage. Then there's this whole idea that as long as the "n" word is used in appropriate circles in the desginated environment, then it's okay. Or the ever famous "ghetto pass" that allows you to use the word as well. Talk about double talk and double standards. And don't even get my started on the proposed differences between the word "ni**er" and the word "ni**a"!

Either use the word or don't use the word. How can you expect some redneck in West Virginia not to use the word, when you use it yourself? How can you really expect to "kill" a word that is still alive and thriving in pop culture, especially when you continue to breath life into it every single time you say it? You can't!

Maybe they should bury the NAACP instead. Just a thought.