Using the "N" word

United States
October 11, 2007 2:02pm CST
Why can black people use the "N" word in jest and yet if any other race uses it they are being racist?
2 responses
@david2005 (798)
• Canada
17 Feb 08
That is how the world works! A lot of people get upset when someone uses that word and it doesn't matter if you are black or not. i think that no one should use that word cause it is wrong and ignorant to call someone that.
• United States
11 Oct 07
What are you? I'm Hispanic and I have a bunch of black friends who use the word. I personally don't use that word and hate the word because it's such an ugly word to me. But there's a difference between the two words. Nowadays people use the word which ends in "gga" which is different from the word used back in the days which ends in "gger". Now even though the words are not the same the word that is used today is "gga" still comes from "gger". Well that's waht I think anyways. But if someone else uses it it's seen as rascist it's just because that other person is not part of the race and is not like... uh i don't know how to say it. That other person who said the word probably needs to gain trust and show that they are not saying this word for the wrong reason or something like that. Well I don't know i'm not an expert on this or anything it's just a hypothesis.