When I was 12, I came to visit the US for the first time. My English was really, really bad but for some reason, I had learned that the word n**** was a bad word from someone in my country before I left. There were some white men sitting in front of a store when I came to the states and I kept hearing the world but I didn't know what else they were saying so I stood in front of them and kept screaming n**** at them. I have no idea why I did that but they got so mad ... I mean, mad enough where I thought they would kill me. I had to run away from them. I wanted to tell them that they were wrong for saying that word but I didn't speak their language (English) and I thought if I keep saying the word back at them over and over, it would make them see that they were wrong. I never forgot that!!! I was just so mad that I actually really heard someone say that word and I know they were saying it in a hateful way. Wow! I never told anyone this story and now I just told the whole world LOL
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