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Its been a soul-crushing, if illuminating, few weeks for this Caucasian social-justice minister.

First, shortly after Jonathan Martin walked away from his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins, we learned that Martins white teammate Richie Incognito repeatedly used the N-word to ridicule him and that some black teammates actually gave Incognito license to use the word, one former teammate referring to him as an honorary brother.

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The Post Sports Live crew discusses the suspension of Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito and why his racist and threatening text messages to teammate Jonathan Martin are not typical NFL hazing.

Then Matt Barnes, after being ejected from an NBA game, used the word in a tweet, for which he was fined $25,000 and later defended by Michael Wilbon, Charles Barkley and others, whose message was essentially, Leave the young brother alone.

All this time I had it in my leftist-engineer head that this word was the most vile, disgusting, loaded word in the history of the English language, and now its an accepted synonym for man or dude or partner? More jarring, Wilbon said he used it all day, every day, all my life, specifying on Pardon the Interruption, I have a problem with white people framing the discussion for the use of the N-word.

Okay.

And I have a problem with anyone of any ethnicity telling me that my values and beliefs about eradicating slurs from public and private conversation are less important than having agency over them for personal use no matter who it hurts, including millions of African Americans who want the word abolished and should have just as much say.

Actually, its deeper than that. When you think youre fighting for a less hostile, less confusing and more mutually respectful country for our children to live in and then you find out your idea of a shared purpose wasnt shared by people you like and respect, a real hopelessness sets in.

The N-word is filth; its disrespectful, confusing and uplifts no one. I know of no other minority in the world co-opting a dehumanizing, racial slur used by its oppressor.

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