Nigger! The Ongoing Saga of a Most Controversial Word!

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis
Published in
5 min readMay 10, 2020

--

One thing is for certain; despite the undeniable and unprecedented havoc that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has wrought across the globe, the truth is such a dilemma has not prohibited some individuals from participating in behavior that is nothing short of recidivist and reductive. Psychopathic men and women have threatened to infect others https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/new-jersey-man-coronavirus-terrorist-threat with the virus. People have engaged in retrograde horrendous racist and xenophobic behavior, menacingly targeting specific…

--

--

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.