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Dan BrettaI've heard both African American and white kids using the N word with each other. I believe that the younger generation is - to use Barry's word demystifying the word. How many of us know that "Chicano" was a racist slur against Mexican Americans in Texas in the early 1900's? It was in the 1960s that Mexican American groups began to proudly call themselves Chicano's that the word lost it's original meaning. I'm not saying that the same thing should be done with the N word, but to today's kids the word does not have the same powerful hate attached to it that it does to the older generations.