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first suarez, now cavani - why do uruguayan footballers keep using n-words? - an interview with goal.com
At first glance of the Spanish word, its meaning seems unmistakeable. “Negrito.”
The word is discriminatory and racist, a demeaning slur directed to Black people and one that should be wholly condemned and erased from modern vernacular, the Spanish-language translation of the repugnant n-word in English.
But what if it isn’t?