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What’s Tolkien have to do with this?

I am assuming they’re referencing South Park.

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Tolkien Black

Tolkien Black, formerly known as Token Black and Token Williams, is a male fourth grader at South Park Elementary and is voiced by Adrien Beard. His name was a play on words referring to the trope of the "token black guy" commonly featured on American television shows. However, in "The Big Fix", it was revealed that his name is actually "Tolkien", named after English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien Black is a regular member of Craig's gang and is most notable for being the only African-American

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It is also a derogatory slur slur
Is Token a Slur?

Is Token a slur? Find the meaning and origins of Token on Slurs.info

That was what South Park was getting at by naming their one Black character Token who they retconned to be named Tolkien 20 years later.

Which sounds exactly like the slur it is. Try saying the n word exactly how it sounds to a black person, and then tell them you added a letter so it’s not a slur anymore and see what happens.

Matter of fact just call somebody black token or Tolkien to their face and see what happens. You will get knocked out it doesn’t matter if you added an extra letter to your slur or not.

Oh no doubt. It is definitely in poor taste, but norms have shifted so that most people see it that way now. I’m just saying they retconned to be that the white people just assumed his name was Token. In no way did I mean to imply saying the other letter makes it ok to call a black person by that name.
You’re fine, as a black man there’s just few words that genuinely irritate me as much as token.