(CNN) -- Martin Luther King Jr. fought and died so blacks would no longer be viewed as inferior but rather enjoy the same inherent rights given to whites in America. Yet in 2014, 50 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the West View News thinks it's appropriate to publish a story about our first black president, Barack Obama, with the headline, "The Nigger in the White House." Oh, the times we are living in. All I could do was feel sick to my stomach when I read the headline that the monthly newspaper serving Manhattan's Lower West Side published. And it brought up the pain my family went through nearly four decades ago.
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Crystal Wright says the use of the n-word to describe the President was reprehensible
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An 86 year-old writer used the term in a recent headline in a New York newspaper
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In 1977, Wright's family was refused admission into an all-white country club
The entire incident shows how far @placeholder has to yet to go in race relations.