Obamacare : Adopting a slur cancels its sting : women did it with b-word , blacks with N-word . McWhorter : Should Obama use `` anti-Obama , '' the GOP slur for the Affordable Care Act ? He says Obamacare people support GOP , hate Obamacare , think they are different . McWhorter : Black people long ago adopted the N-word as a raffish term of in-group affection , and if you ask me as a black person , we 'd do better to stop going to pieces when white people say it . Obama did the right thing to link his name with far-reaching health care reform .
Obamacare : Adopting a slur cancels its sting : women did it with b-word , blacks with N-word . McWhorter : Should Obama use `` anti-Obama , '' the GOP slur for the Affordable Care Act ? He says Obamacare people support GOP , hate Obamacare , think they are different . McWhorter : Obama did the right thing to link his name with far-reaching health care reform .