Racial Slurs Research Paper

Throughout time, racial slurs have impacted many minority groups. Slurs have been welded as weapons for a long time, although they may not affect all minorities, they still affect others and that does not mean it is okay to use slurs or call people slurs. The use of derogatory language may not seem as important or as harmful to non-minority groups, for they are just words such as cuss words. Although all words have hidden meanings, there is an important message behind them. I am an Asian American woman; I am half white and half Cambodian although a majority of people believe I am Hispanic. Due to that, I have experienced both Asian hate and discrimination as well as Latina hate and discrimination. I cannot say that I know what it is like to …show more content…
There are many more examples I could use. Something that has caused racism through derogatory language to spread that much more is on social media. Social media has caused a lot of problems throughout this generation, but discriminatory words and word choice has caused many more than just a few problems. Sonia Mbowa talks about the usage of racial slurs within her article Exploring the Use of South African Ethnic and Racial Slurs on Social Media. She proceeded to explain that the guy had changed his Facebook Bio and “referred to government officials as "Kaffirs and black fucking cunts"” (Mbowa 1). Already, just a simple action such as changing your bio can affect so many that he was punished. From using the K-word and calling them names using explicit language. Words such as the N-word or the K-word, which are both derogatory terms for African Americans, the K-word may not be common to most, but it was “thought to be derived from the Islamic word kafir which means unbeliever” (Mbowa 2). Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries the k-word was used to describe African Americans as inferior. Many people know about the n-word and that the n-word is harmful, disrespectful, and unkind to say. When looking at the history of the word, it can be traced back to 1619 when the first wave of African American slaves came to the United States (about 20 slaves). Cherry Wilson explains in an article N-word: The troubled history of the racial slur she uses interviews to explain that the N-word was derived from the word black in Spanish and Portuguese. The N-word “really tied into the idea that African people aren't really human beings," says Kehinde Andrews” another says, “They were more like an animal than a human being, a beast of burden, could be bought and sold, could be thrown overboard ships and literally had no rights” (Wilson 12&13). Already the N-word has so much meaning and so much

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