One day, I was out with friends when we stopped for ice cream. While we were sitting down enjoying our sundaes, I casually commented how much I love jimmies as a topping. One of my friends, who happens to be Black, said, “You shouldn’t use that word.”

“What word?”

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...