Language The question that is not answered in this essay seems to be, what if one does not accept the belief that "our dominant white culture is racist" (p. 9). If one does not accept that premise in the first place then the entire essay is out of touch and misapplied. The thought that our language "an indispensable transmitter of culture" is racist as well, is not an acceptable thesis. Instead, what one could say is that the culture found in today's modern American society is one that allows for the free expression of thoughts and beliefs with words that are derived from a variety of sub-cultures and that they may not be racist at all, but a more effective method for communicating with like members of that particular sub-culture. Or, better yet, it could be that language no longer commonly used in 'regular' society, has its place in reminding individuals of the vagaries of language and how hurtful and denigrating such...

Yet, there are plenty of members of the African-American community that call one another by that title with a rather seemed sense of pride. The author of the article uses references to phrases in use in the 70's (February 1972 and July 2975 -- p. 10) but does not use examples from the more recent past to bolster his claim that whites are still stereotyping through language.
It's interesting to view how society used words at the time of the Moore article as compared to today, yet it seems that those very words that Moore derides are no longer used in today's more enlightened society. The words have been eliminated from societal use because they were denigrating to certain individuals, and…