Name: Nワードの話をするのが難しい理由｜エリザベス・ストードゥア・プライヤー (Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word | Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor)
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Transcriber: Ivana Korom Reviewer: Krystian Aparta

My students are usually laser-focused on me,

but they shifted in their seats and looked away.

who teaches the histories of race and US slavery.

I'm aware that my social identity is always on display.

I try to anticipate what part of my lesson might go wrong.

None of my years of graduate school prepared me for what to do

when the student said the N-word in my class.

She came to class with her readings done,

she was actually making a point about my lecture,

by quoting a line from a 1970s movie, a comedy,

As soon as she said it, I held up my hands, said, "Whoa, whoa."

and how I handled it haunted me for a long time.

It wasn't the first time I thought about the word

it's in a lot of the documents that I teach.

But instead to use the euphemistic phrase, "the N-word."

would think that by using the phrase I wasn't a serious scholar.

But saying the actual word still felt worse.

The incident in my classroom forced me to publicly reckon with the word.

The history, the violence, but also any time it was hurled at me,

any time it rested on the tip of someone's tongue,

So I've come to call stories like mine points of encounter.

A point of encounter describes the moment you came face-to-face with the N-word.

If you've even been stumped or provoked by the word,

whether as the result of an awkward social situation,

or witnessed someone getting called the slur,

you have experienced a point of encounter.

And depending on who you are and how that moment goes down,

or it could be incredibly painful and humiliating.

I've had lots of these points of encounter in my life,

There's not a lot of space to talk about them.

That day in my classroom was pretty much like all of those times

I had an uninvited run-in with the N-word.

Because the N-word is hard to talk about.

Part of the reason the N-word is so hard to talk about,

as a figure of speech, we hear this all the time, right?

The burning question that cycles through social media

Black intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates does a groundbreaking job

of defending the African American use of the word.

argues that if we don't all just come and say it,

The Pew Center recently entered the debate.

In a survey called "Race in America 2019,"

researchers asked US adults if they thought is was OK

Seventy percent of all adults surveyed said "never."

They keep us from getting underneath to the real conversation.

Which is that the N-word is not just a word.

It's not neatly contained in a racist past,

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