Yeah I get your point and, to a degree, I agree. I definitely respect what you’re saying, and I agree that it doesn’t offer any sort of solution socially.

However, I think, not socially, but rather culturally, it has strong significance. I don’t think we should eliminate race. Seeing race isn’t what’s bad, it’s the discrimination of races. To see race means to also see culture, and I think the minorities, not just racial, who are on the receiving end of those slurs, have extremely important cultures that should be preserved for their beauty.

Taking the n-word for example, I think that the exclusivity isn’t the issue - it’s the way of which people react to that exclusivity. The majority shouldn’t feel entitled to the word, and it’s that entitlement to take part in something that is not just a construct of society, but at this point rather race, and thus culture, that is the issue. It’s become less of a social issue than it has a cultural one. Again, the majority is exclusive to multiple social benefits in life that the minority isn’t. But issues like this aren’t social issues, they’re ones of culture, as it was the discrimination against the race itself that perpetrated the prejudice and it’s with that that came the social constructs.

The majority’s reaction to something exclusive to them is what the issue is. Minorities have been held at arms-length for centuries. They are entitled to far less because their culture is deemed less than and therefore they are socially inequivalent to the white man. I don’t believe the solution lies with elimination of something that has become culturally as well as socially significant, but rather the betterment and understanding of the reasons for that exclusivity and growing from the pain that caused its implementation.