Will high profile celebrities, Entertainers and Major Sports and Corporation Step Up and Support the Stoppage of the N WORD? It is probably the ugliest racial slur ever created. It is a word known primarily as a means to denigrate African Americans. The word packs such power to represent overt racial hatred, most people - regardless of race - will not even utter it. This spring, Rich Stanek who was Minnesota's Public Safety Commissioner at the time, admitted he used the word more than 12 years ago in a court deposition. He says he didn't use the word against anybody; he merely spoke it. But the furor over his admission led to his resignation. One word uttered 12 years ago. How can one word have such power? Rappers use it in Music, People in general use it. Other race of people use it! THE N WORD IS NOT A SLANG!