The N word  Time and a generation is heralding a changed meaning
William Covington | 9/12/2013, midnight  Black youth are one
social and cultural anomaly today regarding the use of the
N-word. Unlike teens involved in the civil rights movement—where
youth as young as 11 years old protested for equal rights and
the right not to be called “n*er; were beaten by the police;
hosed down with water; and hauled off to jail—contemporary young
people freely and lovingly use the N-word.  Even though the
Civil Rights Movement heralded landmark Supreme Court Decisions,
the word n*er did not die; it only went to sleep.  During the
1970s, blaxploitation movies and Richard Pryor helped
resuscitate the N-word. In the 1970s, Pryor won a Grammy for his
comedy act album, “That Nigger’s Crazy,” but after a pilgrimage
to Africa, Pryor vowed never to use the word again.  That same
decade, the “N-word” metamorphisized into “na” then after a long
period of dormancy in America, the word “ner” once again changed
appearance and meaning