When did you first hear the N-word and how was it used?

Question

Suprisingly, as a white male, I never heard the word in my entire 18 years growing up in an all white northeastern community. Even in the military, no one used it. When I moved to San Francisco, Oh my god, blacks were using it all the time on each other. I knew of the word. I was thinking to myself: How can you feel good saying the most despised word to describe your people. They were laughing about it. I've become jaded to it.

Answer 1

Dr Evil, I first heard the word ****** when I was 4 years old . The family next door to us had a ***** maid and she haid brought her daughter with her one day when my mother called me and my sister in to her and said not to ever say the word ****** because their was a black ***** girl out in the neighbors backyard and she knew we might have heard that word and my mother did not want us to hurt this girls feelings , I guess , by saying ****** . Well that was the first time I ever saw a ****** and heard the word ****** when my mother told us never to say the word ****** . I never did call that girl a ****** . You young people today are being brought up in Black communist America . This government of our is controlled by the naacp and they plan on breeding black men to white women and they tell their black girls to give it away to white men to get control of the white man . The white girl today is psychologically brainwashed to go give it to the black man . We are living at the end of time . It's time God burned this world to a crisp , the Devil has gotten control of planet earth . See ya !

Answer 2

I was 6 years old and lived in Kankakee Illinois in the 60's. My brother was assaulted (he was 7) by two older boys who took away his baseball bat (he was coming home from little league practice). They beat him up so bad that when he was taken to the hospital. A nice African American man saw what happened and turned in the two boys. The police called those boys the n word over and over again. I didn't ask my parents what it meant. I looked it up in a dictionary. It said lazy. I didn't understand. I work in a school with about 50% African American kids and they use the word all the time. They know I taught in Jamaica and in Africa and I had more respect from those kids being a teacher than I have had from some of them. When they find this out, they are always very kind to me because they want to know more about their own kind. I think sometimes people who are ignorant to the ways of others say things they don't mean because they are naive. Education is the great emancipator.

Answer 3

I heard it first in a German storybook called "Der Nigerknabe Cuff" describing the antics of a ***** boy named Cuff who lived in Germany. This book was written in German in the '30's

Answer 4

Its so sad I heard that along time ago and I can't even remember it. But the last I heard was on T.V. the person had said," Ya'll ain't left me nothin' but a N*****, but at least I killed me a N*****!" I hate that word so much.

Answer 5

As a kid in the ennie, meanie, minie, moe thing. I am pretty sure I had no idea what it meant.

I still do not understand why it is OK for the "in" group to use it, but it is not OK for the "out" group.

Answer 6

What about if we all say were Americans when were Canadians since we are considered part of the West and are white.

Why do we not do that too?

Humans are quire.

Answer 7

I heard it as a child sitting around the kitchen table while my relatives talked about black people.

Answer 8

Heard it in NYC playgrounds. ***** young teenagers were calling each other that slang name.

Answer 9

It's in just about every rap song, so it can't be to upsetting to brown people.

Answer 10

whats N word?