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I get what you are saying.  Just like girls call their other girl friend's b*tches but if a guy calls her that in a derogatory way, it is a massive no no.  [b]The thing is that I don't believe you can have it both ways.  T[/b]he girls that say that, set the bar really low.  I get teens trying to be cool.  I get that there is a small window in your teen/college years to break the mold with bad words being cool. But you can't sit there and call all your friends that word in a friendly way, sing songs with the word in it,  and then get letters going home about the word being said by someone else the next week.  Are white people not allowed to sing songs with their friends if it has the N word in it?  Too much uncertainty.

I feel like if you want to make the word common in a non and a derogatory way, then you just have to take the derogatory version of it as a typical of saying a$$hole.  The best way to take the sting out of the word is not really to use it as a friendly way so much as not let it affect you in a negative way.   But I don't believe we will ever get that way nor do I ever think we should ever get there. If we did it would be really sad to our ancestors.   I believe the word needs to be taught and told to everyone.  How much of a terrible and demeaning slur it is.  No way is a good way to say it.  But if it continues to go down this path of young people okay it and our elders who were treated like crap pass away, I feel like we are heading down a path of it not meaning much of anything.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/n-word-became-atomic-bomb-racial-slurs/[/quote]

More accurately, you believe that you can have it both ways, but you shouldn't be allowed to have it both ways.

If you're worried about the uncertainty of when white people are allowed to or not allowed to use the word, then there's an easy solution: don't use it.[/quote]

PS - the kids in question were not "white."[/quote]

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