Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor : Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor·TEDxEasthamptonWomen
Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word
Summary
Before summarizing the talk, l have a question.
Why do we have to study and learn histories?
Is that an answer that is wanting to get great scores, passing tests, or having a better job?
And when we knew that our country had bad histories, we wouldn’t like our own country, ancestors, even grandfathers and we try to find perpetrators but bullying is also starting.
I think that for doing those, we don’t study histories. We have to help others, our country, Earth and want to live well. The thoughts wouldn’t make us bully and discriminate, even if our ancestors had done.
Japanese people also have crazy thoughts. Don’t study true histories, because becoming strong must lead to starting wars. OMG💢
The world should learn and study true histories more to help others and create a better world.

However, people don’t want to teach bad histories. In the story, there is a word that people never use because of bad history, its word was replaced by the N-word, though, some teachers didn’t know its changing but what to do. Hiding it, avoiding it, not teaching it and teaching true, all things were failing.

The N-word brings with it all of the complicated histories of US racism.
The nation’s history shouldn’t avoid it and the speaker’s failure experiences to teach it also shouldn’t avoid it. Don’t stop teaching and students must have amazing learning for their future. It should be so.

P.S.
“People cannot exist if they don't have their country”.  This taught me studying History and English were important.

Words in this story
surrogate /adj/ replacement