What's the deal with the "n" word?

Question

Sometimes I call my white friends the n word when I'm ticked off at them. One of them said that I shouldn't call her that because she's not black and that really pissed me off. I still hang out with her though and I really have no black friends. When I did, I called them the n word but they said I was a white girl and couldn't say it.

I was wondering why my white friend would say what she said and why my black friends won't allow me to say the n word around them but they say it all the time.

I only use the n word when I'm angry. It slips, honestly. I'm black but people say I act white.

Answer 1

I use the N word all the time, I use it to describe any person of any race that just thinks I owe them something because I am white, or any person that just does what they need to get by and blames me for them not getting ahead.

Blacks call blacks N!ggger all the time, look at what the word means, lazy, ignorant, not well spoken, uneducated, and all the other black stereotypes we as whites are supposed to pretend don't exist. I don't care if you end it with an "ger" or a "gah" it still means the same thing. The same people that say it is a term of affection amongst black males are the same ones to call someone a "***** @$$ss niggger" or something of the like, how is that endearing?

As I stated I call people the N word all the time but at least the shoe fits. I dont use it based on skin color I use it based on you charcter...Chris Rock made a whole album about the difference between black people and n!gggers.

Answer 2

I think everyone is getting totally over sensitive at the slightest possible hint of the wrong word being used even when the persons intentions are pure. My tutor at college went mad at me during a discussion about race for saying the phrase half cast. Now, this phrase was taught to me by half cast people as the phrase they preferred. The tutor had the cheek to say for a WHITE person it was rude, racist and never to say that in his class again. When I asked him if my skin was WHITE he suddenly he decided that I didn't have the right to find that offensive. What the hell is going on???

Answer 3

Speaking as a black man, I don't like the word period. But I'm more likely to tolerate it coming from another back person. But whites have no right to say it at all. A lot of painful feelings come from that word and that can easily lead to violence.

Answer 4

are you white?

for some reason, alot of black people think that being called the n word by black people is perfectly fine, but from white people its completely unacceptable.

personally, id never use it, and i'm sure i wouldnt use it if i was black either.

Answer 5

I don't think anyone should throw aroung the n-word, personally. Let's just ban it all together. Get a new set of friends, girl. Yours sound kinda ignorant (you're "white"......)

Answer 6

i use Ni99a not Ni993er< that word is not even in my vocabulary E.R isn't even in my vocab sista PEOPLE JUST SO SENSATIVE