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Dr. Myrna Lashley featured in Montreal Gazette

Published: 21 October 2020

N-word deserves repugnance, but also discussion: experts

…The N-word is a term of hatred meant to convey inferiority and subordination and the sense a person is less than human, said Dr. Myrna Lashley, a professor in Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s department of psychiatry and former director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. That being said, she wishes members of the Black community could do as many hip-hop artists and rappers have done, and rob the hateful word of its power by making it their own.
Montreal Gazette

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