Would BIID By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
by Cath - 3 May 2009
When I was growing up in the England of the late seventies I had some experiences which made me become sharply aware of the potency of names. First of all, I was a pupil at a rural school which was totally dominated by white, middle class children and I can remember clearly the single child of Afro-Caribbean descent who attended. She got bullied and called a ‘nigger’ and when this culminated in the word being sprayed on a classroom wall the culprits were summarily expelled, although I was never quite certain whether this was for the racism or the graffiti. The unfortunate victim left soon after and I don’t blame her.
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