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"ref": "2018 November 2, Rafael Motamayor, “Bodied is one of the most surprising, scorching satires of the year”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2022-12-06",
"text": "Behn jokes about the kid being just another white boy looking for an \"n-word pass\", but then Adam accepts a challenge by a cocky rapper looking for an Old West-type draw (the punk even calls himself Billy Pistols).",
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"ref": "2019 May 26, Matthew McClure, “End the \"N-word pass\"”, in The Spokesman-Review, archived from the original on 2022-10-22",
"text": "I have had the N-word said to me three times and when I said, \"Hey that's not OK,\" they replied that I have the \"N-word pass,\" I am 1% African American, or they said that racism is over, and that is sadly not true. People today are still being treated differently because the color of their skin.",
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"ref": "2020 January 23, Lisa Damour, “My Son's Friends Use Slurs in Online Games. What Can I Do?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-11-25",
"text": "Your son might question this last idea if he is familiar with the concept of an \"N-word pass,\" by which a black person grants a nonblack person permission to use the term.",
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"ref": "2020 June 11, Janelle Griffith, “Georgia high school investigating racist yearbook photo involving Martin Luther King Jr.”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2022-12-26",
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