Viewpoint by Jan Servaes
BRUSSELS (IDN) — Several years ago, when I provoked a discussion about the word "ho" during my hitherto popular "Hip hop for social change" course at the University of Massachusetts, nearly half of the enrolled students immediately cancelled me. They didn't show up again the following week. “How could I, a straight white male, have dared to use the 'slang' word for 'whore/bitch'?” I was told, as it appeared in the conversations of both 'white' and 'black' students (they/them/their) all the time and was central to most hip-hop and rap music.
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