Jordan Seifert’s Reviews > The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why > Status Update

[The artists] performance of the N word consistently alludes- subtly or overtly- to our nation's troubled and complicated past. The art of their less talented peers who invoke the N word often fails precisely because it neglects to acknowledge the word's origin in white supremacy, suggesting instead that it was coined in a vacuum and can be pulled and stretched into new meanings that wipe it clean of centuries of blo