Slur has no place in NYC, resolution says

USA Today reports:

The City Council is poised to pass a resolution today that would symbolically ban the racial slur known as the "N-word," part of a growing national debate about the use of the word.

The measure encourages New Yorkers not to use the word and to become educated about its racist history.

"It was a word developed to justify slavery and dehumanizing people, and it should not be used, especially in the manner young people are using it," says Leroy Comrie, the Queens councilman who introduced the measure. "You can't re-format a word that's despicable.

When you are a town that believes in regulating goods and services to the hilt:the market in speech can't be all that far behind.