Reading The Classics, Timeless Sadness

“Nigger¹,” is a word I dislike.

I don’t like with a regular “r”, with a hard “r”, or with a dropped “r.”

I’ve learned to not hear it (rightly or not) out of the mouths of comedians. I get that who says something and how it’s said carries a good deal of a word’s meaning, but when you read “nigger,” there’s no way for you not to feel it.

And that’s what made my Christmas break reading harder than I wanted it to be.