If you want kids to read something, just ban it.
Lucifer's Angel said:
and besides why should we be affraid to say NIGGER when black people call themselves it every day
Maybe things are different across the Pond, but in the States, we have a custom that might, to some alien anthropologist, seem strange. Within various strata of friendly association, we have the right to insult each other. In one part of my social circle, three former housemates always call one another "fag" or "asshole", "fucker", or any number of rude words. We have a ritual called the "gay-off" (from the word "playoff") in which either a voice on television or someone in the room wins the honor of having spoken the most homosexual double-entendre during a sporting event. Friendly convention contextualizes insults like "sheep fucker" that we would never sling at other people.
Thus, it seems obvious to me that the difference between a black man calling his friend "nigger" and me calling a black man a nigger is simply a matter of convention and context.
There doesn't seem to be any deep question about it. But that's just me.
Synthesizer-Patel said:
I love the gay-off - that's hilarious - I must play that - if you're really brave try Gay Chicken - where you and a male buddy have to head towards giving each other a passionate kiss - the first one to back off is the is the loser
the place for teaching history is history class.
Yikes. Sounds fine by me, but it wouldn't go over with my friends.
American football is a really good source of gay-off quotes. My own infamous quote came in the closing minutes of the Seattle Seahawks NFC Championship win to send them to the Super Bowl a few years ago. As the end of the game drew closer, I actually said, "I can taste this fucker coming."
Swing by an education department at your local university, and tell that to them. It is the job of the teacher to take every subject and tie it into the subject at hand as best as they can.