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For the fourth time in NBA history, the Houston Cougars had 2 players selected in the first round of the same draft. 68’: Elvin Hayes, Don Chaney 84’: Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Young 23’: Jarace Walker, Marcus Sasser 26’: Kingston Flemings, Chris Cenac

The work started. The next chapter begins now. @k1ngflemings

Hill day. No shortcuts. No excuses. Just reps, grit, and teammates pushing each other to get better every step of the way. 🏀⛰️💪 #StrengthAndConditioning #Basketball #EarnedNotGiven

🏀 Day 1 is in the books. Great energy, great effort, and a lot of work put in by our future Rams. Looking forward to continuing to develop skills, build habits, and introduce these young athletes to the Elsik Basketball standard. #ElsikBasketball #TheElsikWay #FutureRams

Congratulations to all the graduates of Alief Elsik HS! Your perseverance, determination, and commitment have led you to this incredible achievement, and we are proud to celebrate you! 🎓 For more photos, please visit: aliefisd.smugmug.com/High/Elsik-Hig…

This Wemby artwork by Asher Hyde after Game 4 😮‍💨

Mike Brown was fired from the Kings less than a year and a half ago. He was also fired by the Cavaliers, who he just swept, TWO SEPARATE TIMES in his career. Today, he’s leading the Knicks to their first NBA Finals in 27 years.

DYLAN HARPER TONIGHT: 24 POINTS 11 REBOUNDS 7 STEALS 6 ASSISTS 47 MINUTES ONLY 20 YEARS OLD

@GrkemYlmaz18890 @Sephanade Nahhhh. The Deep is just a gold fish. Namor runs the waters.

@Sephanade He could genuinely be the aquaman of this verse but he is too busy being idiot and deep throating homelander

What if the deep really stayed in the ocean and started building his own empire down there… would homelander even be able to touch bro fr?

Love to see it!

Three Game 7s. Two former @UHCougarMBK stars advancing in the NBA playoffs.

CONGRATS to Kingston Flemings @K1ngFlemings & best of luck at the next level! #ForTheCity x #GoCoogs

Former #Houston PG Jamal Shead in today’s NBA playoff matchup: 17 points. 5-6 from three. 28 minutes. Kelvin Sampson knows guards.

Steph has to be in that GOAT conversation. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@Warr4Christ @XKnockouts It’s all good. Thanks for the convo. God bless. 🙏🏾 Hope we all find real peace moving forward.

@coachcarter_htx @XKnockouts I can see there’s no changing your mind. I appreciate the back and forth. God bless you

@Warr4Christ @XKnockouts Silence doesn’t cure anything; it just lets the damage spread. Discussing history isn’t what keeps racism alive. The conditions that created it are what keep it alive.

The justification comes through widespread societal use in media (Music, TV, movies, etc). All races are exposed to it, so even though the use of it used to be a major taboo some 60 years ago, it is not so now. While yes a lot of black people still get extremely triggered by it's use, which in my opinion, is laughable that a single word can get someone that angry. Still talking about a word that is associated with slavery and racism, keeps that racism alive. Morgan Freeman said it best, "Want racism to die? Stop talking about it".

@Warr4Christ @XKnockouts And saying people shouldn’t react to a word tied to centuries of violence ignores the weight behind it. Using that logic, we should stop talking about cancer too because ignoring a malignant problem has always been the most effective treatment.

@Warr4Christ @XKnockouts Exposure isn’t the same as acceptability. Media can make a word familiar, but familiarity doesn’t equal universal permission. Context, history, and who’s speaking still matter.

@Warr4Christ @XKnockouts Everything you listed is historically accurate, but none of it answers the question of acceptability. Reclamation by Black comedians isn’t the same as society approving it. Hip‑hop popularity isn’t the same as universal permission. You gave a timeline, not a justification.

You didn’t ask about the origins of it, you asked when it has been acceptable to use it so freely. Since you want to bring up timelines: It originates from the Latin word Niger (the color black) and entered the English vernacular at neger/niger but was the used to dehumanize black people throighout slavery and Jim Crow. It shifted as a linguistic reclamation during the 1960/70s when black comedians started using the term more openly (SeeRochard Pryor). Then in the 80s/90s when HipHop blew up it began spreading like wildfire. So what I said was true in reference to your initial question