Thank you.  I feel the same way about everything you have posted.  There is an old term I learned in college "group self-hatred."  It's when we accept what others say about our group as truth.  So a hateful word kept alive may be done as a way to "take away its power" but the net effect is to honor slavers and slavery by continuing to use it.  Doing so diminishes us.  Why?  Because we are all more than our history, our skin color, and the limits that others try to place on us.  Thanks again.  I look forward to reading your comments.