NAACP delegates 'bury' the N-word - CNN.com: Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.
The ceremony included a march by delegates from across the country from downtown Detroit's Cobo Center to Hart Plaza. Along the way, two Percheron horses pulled a pine box adorned with a bouquet of fake black roses and a black ribbon printed with a derivation of the word.
The coffin is to be placed at Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery and will have a headstone.
'Today we're not just burying the N-word, we're taking it out of our spirit,' said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. 'We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the 'pimps' and the 'hos' that go with it.'
