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First of all, let’s not get it twisted.  Previous generations of Americans of every color, race and religion swore by spankings, and by many accounts, they knew what they were talking about.  Big Momma and Papa, Bubbee and Zaydee, Abuela and Abuelo may have not had the education wielded by our generation, but they sacrificed so that their posterity could obtain the formal education some of us take for granted.  Their methods, though intense at times, not only kept us safe, but their values…

A thin line exists between being incensed and being overly sensitive.   Since the election of one Barack Hussein Obama to the highest office in the land, the United States has not become “post-racial”.  In many ways, in fact, American society has become, ironically, more racially divided.  One of those divisive issues that seems to get new life on a perennial basis is the use of the so called, “N-Word”.  However you slice it, whether “nigger” or “nigga” or “nig” (the variation of the N-Word…