Journal 3 Language is a beautiful thing. It gives us the ability to communicate our thoughts and explain ideas that are otherwise confined within our mind. We create new words and recycle parts of other ones in an attempt to put into words the feelings we can’t describe. However, language also restricts us; it’s evolution over time favors those in power. Whenever I talk to friends and family, “American” defaults to white Americans rather than Native Americans or African Americans or the general American public. In English, there are multiple slurs for other ethnicities save for a few Anglo ones. In terms of race, the worst slur I could think of for a white person is cracker, which even then holds less historical baggage than the “n” word. The