Summary Of Gloria Naylor's Response To The N Word

In response to the issue of the n-word, Gloria Naylor reasons that the word can be meant differently based on who says it. Naylor considers the n-word inferior to the frustration of writers on the awareness when discussing about the n-word. The n-word based on what Naylor describes seems not to be an insult, but for a different purpose in an understanding meaning. Naylor builds her personal reason by explaining how the community utilizes it and the ethicalal aspects of it in the way it's being used. First, where the n-word lies in the community or family, Naylor depicts the way it is used has different meaning and a possible alternative. The word can depict someone has done something benefiting or gaining respect, as if others have approved that specific person in that community. “In the singular, the word was always applied to a …show more content…
Since this was taken from between two persons talking about another person on what he did, are showing and recognizing him on what he done in what Naylor states. Naylor sees as if the word can be as an adjective within the community. Naylor also describes that the n-word can obviously be used as a negative impact that the community defines it on how people don’t fit in. “Parents who neglected their children, a drunken couple who fought in public, people who simply refused to look for work, those with excessively dirty mouths or unkempt households were all ‘trifling niggers’” (Naylor). Naylor wants the reader to understand that the n-word is not for straight up racism, but to point out those who aren’t acknowledge in the same community or race. It holds a point to where it is a negative impact that focuses to describe that person based however it is. Woman are called “girl” instead of the n-word which has almost the same meaning meant for girls in the community. “The noun girl was its closest