the "N" word Options

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what do you guys think about the N word . . . do you use it . . .

sometimes when im with my friends i use it . . . wait actually i use it all the time
and no im NOT black all my friends use it too im a bad person ?

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this should go into debate...

and no one should use the word. even if u think its "cool" well it isnt. its totally laughing in the face of all that history behind the word. i mean seriously, that is so disrespectful. african americans have come a long way to be treated equally, so that people DONT use that word, and now all the sudden it's the cool thing to say? are you kidding me? thats f*cking bullshit..not even black people should be saying it. personally i think that when black people say it, its even more disrespectful, because thats THEIR history; those were THEIR ancestors, and now theyre just going to totally degrade it.

i mean asian people dont like it when people say chink right? why should it be any different with the n word?


and btw, in mean girls, she didnt even say "n*gga please" they mistranslated it. she really just said "please"

theres no word for n*igger in vietnamese. we only have "mi danh" and that just means black person.

The word's meaning has changed over the years, that they're able to use it openly.
I think it's more of the issue of which context the word was used in.
Some use it to make it have the same meaning as 'brother', or in some cases, it's original origin - to label someone ignorant.

When black people now use the word nigger, I'm sure they have no intent of disrespecting their ancestors. If that's how you see it, I don't think it should be your problem...yes, it's their history...if they choose not to respect it, then fine. Hey, it could be that the African Amercian community accepted that it was the past and has forgiven the ones who opressed their people. That they wouldn't hold grudges and know that the use of the word in these times is completely distant from it's significance in the past.

Let's say that some people haven't let go of the fact their people was opressed by the founders of this country. Don't you think that hatred and bitter filled emotions towards white people would just be repeating history, repeating the ignorance, and keeping that chain of discrimination going? Of course, if the word...any word discriminating a race is used in the same manner as it was back then (Calling a black person a nigger, a vietnamese person gook, a mexican person a spic, etc etc), then yes, it is disrespectful and unacceptable. But if it's used in this manner, which is very common:

"Yo, w'sup mah nigga, wut's crack-a-lackin'?"

Then I believe it's acceptable, and has nothing to do with degrading the people who were oppressed and discrimated in the past.

All I'm trying to say is the words meaning has changed.