Mychal Bell is back in jail, and I have just read for the first time Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is brilliant. The rationalizations of Bell’s new incarceration quite resemble nineteenth century rationalizations of slavery generally and of slaveholders’ behavior specifically. I do not point this out for tendentious reasons but as a professional reader of text who has been trained to contextualize and to be objective. And it is not I who am hackneyed, bringing up an old point. It is reality which is hackneyed and history which raises its head. “If you did not mention racism, it would not exist.” “It is only because you believe there is racism that you experience it.” “If you did not resent being enslaved, you could be happy.” “If you were not opposed to war, we would be winning it.”
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Indeed! And if you wanted to be a millionaire badly enough, you would already be one by now!
And certainly, it bites when history repeats itself as farce.
That’s exactly my point, too. Just because the n-word is buried doesn’t mean its soul isn’t surfing ’round the Earth. They can still treat u like an s-word, b-word, or any of that, yet never have to use the word.