Is Negro a Slur or Just Antiquated?

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The racial reckoning of the past several years has altered the way we think about and use language, often for better but occasionally for worse. Sometimes, what we tend to believe is at odds with what is most likely true. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 246: "Is Negro a Slur or Just Antiquated?" With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.
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1:04.3	From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
1:13.3	I'm John McWhorter, and you know, this show is going to be a little less fun than I at least hope some of the shows are going to be, because I need to address certain matters.
1:25.3	There are things that you hear about again and again, and you know, it's time for me to
1:31.1	take a stand. And as you might guess, given that this is a language podcast and the sorts of things
1:36.6	that one or I might take a stand about, this is going to be one of my rare shows where I address
1:42.6	what we might call race issues. And specifically, of course,
1:48.1	Black English. What I'm usually doing on this show is trying to indicate ways in which Black
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