The "N" word - rules?

Question

Why is it okay for a black person to call another black person the n-word but if a white person uses the word, they are racist?

I don't understand. Honestly.

What are the "rules" that make it okay to say and other times inappropriate to say?

I most certainly don't like the word, nor would I ever want to use it.

I ask this because the other night I was listening to Dog and he was saying how he had an understanding with the black people or something like that. And I just was thinking like there is a double standard how black people say it and it is okay but white people do and it is not. I just don't understand the reasoning and I wanted someone to shed some light on it.

Answer 1

This question has been asked so many times and i still dont know the answer. the black people say that NO white person should say it, only they (black people) can. if they dont want the white people to call them the word then they should stop using it themselves!! i mean....seriously.....COME ON!

Answer 2

I'm taking the long way around....but I'll get ya there.

Obviously, many people do not know the original meaning of the N-word. It means, small, insignificant, poor, inadequate, of nothing. Your a white guy so.....okay....let's say your with a girl...and she pulls down your pants and flat out tells you that you have a small penis. You know how you would feel? You would be more than hurt. Well that's what black's feel when they are called the N-word. That girl is telling you that you are small, inadequate, so on so forth as mentioned above.

Point 2: Why do we call each other that word? Black people are the masters of turning sour lemons into lemonade. We have been doing that since we brought into this country, honestly. You know what soul food is? Chitterlings (which are intestines), pig feet, greens, ribs, chicken feet.....sound disgusting? When slaves masters slaughtered cattle for food, they take all the good parts from themselves,....the steaks, roasts, and hams...then give the scraps (the soul food) to the slaves. Over the years we, black folks made those disgusting foods eatable, and pretty damn tasty. Look at what we done with ribs. Yeah, that's right....white people did not eat ribs before blacks came along.....and now yall going to Chili's like motha-effa...like yall own that. The point is that just like making nasty food into good food....we turned that bad word into a good word and we use it brinig ourselves up. But if it comes from a white person....to us...it mean the original meaing. Get me?

Answer 3

On maximum human being human hands, the gap from the top of the thumb to the first knuckle is about one inch, as is the gap from the first knuckle to the bottom of the thumb. Ergo, when you're bereft of a measuring implement, you should use your thumb as an impromptu ruler. i'm disgusted with those who imagine it has to do with the optimal perfect stick for spouse-beating. I study some treatises on the concern at the same time as i changed into in junior severe, and each person who recommended corporal discipline on a recalcitrant spouse continually recommended whipping really than beating, and continually lower than the neck. regardless of each and every thing, in case you employ a stick, you may want to reason severe harm and reduce her application at the same time as she recovered, and in case you beat or whip her interior the face, it makes it glaring to the international that she's a nasty spouse.

Answer 4

This question for the 1,003,903,003,003th time, huh. There are no rules- NOBODY SHOULD SAY IT. White, black, seafoam grey, it is a slur, as is crak*** and any other slur that references someones race, sexual orinatation, whatever. I don't say it, but the black people who do say it who I have asked have said they have turned it into something good, that can and will never be the case.

Answer 5

i'm a black male and i hate anyone using that word doesn't matter what race but i've always wondered why white people feel the need to find out why they shouldn't say that word.Do you feel left out or something,Do you want that word to be okay for you to say does it seem cool to you because black people say it

Answer 6

I can say ******, and I'm not racist. But let's not hold one race to a higher standard than another. That's not equality. If one takes the third person out of the picture, (the race instigator,) then most people can work things out. This country has more important things to worry about.

Answer 7

(sigh) What do you mean why? Because you all always cross the line.

Dog is a great example. He might have been "down" with the Blacks but he crossed that line in the phone conversation, and if anyone can't determine a term of endearment between an insult then you are simply making excuses.

Be serious...

Answer 8

I am a Black man, and I don't like anyone using the N-Word.

Answer 9

White people call each other poor white trash or red necks all the time ,so if i walked up to you and called you poor white trash or a redneck, i being black you would say i am being racist too. So stop playing dumb because you know you would feel the same way if someone of another color called you poor white trash.

Answer 10

I don't like the word used by anyone.

But when it's used by whites, it's usually used in a 'I hate black people' sort of connotation. That's the difference.