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   Another moment of truth emerges.  Niggers are indeed niggers.   
      
   A Friday night lights photo op turned ugly when a North Carolina   
   high school cheerleading squad was overheard chanting the N-word   
   and flashing a hand sign representing the racial slur.   
      
   The Wake County Public School System in Raleigh, N.C., said it   
   disciplined Millbrook High School cheerleaders after parents   
   brought the incident to the attention of administrators, WTVD   
   reported.   
      
   Parents said they heard the girls chanting “N---a Nation” while   
   snapping Instagram photos and flashing what appeared to be gang-   
   style signs, interlocking two hands in the sign of an "N" during   
   a lull at a September football game.   
      
   "It's unacceptable," Millbrook High parent Nora Flynn told WTVD.   
   "It's not the diversity we teach in our household. It's not the   
   language we use. I would be very upset if that showed up on (my   
   daughter's) Twitter feed or whatever it is."   
      
   Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal said this represents a   
   generational shift in how the word is used. The photo, obtained   
   by WTVD, shows the squad – which includes both white and black   
   cheerleaders – wearing ribbons in their hair smiling in their   
   blue and white finest.   
      
   "The way that so many of us understand the word, that context is   
   still there. We still understand it as hate language,” Neal told   
   WTVD. “We still understand it as language that represents   
   racism...but there's also all these other kinds of uses of the   
   word...particularly in pop culture.”   
      
   While the school said the issue was addressed, it did not reveal   
   what discipline was handed down.   
      
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