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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting that one of the first rules we learn as kids is that you don't do or say something just because others do. However, when it comes to the use of the N word, that lesson is thrown away. I guess some people just really want to find a reason to use it. [/quote]

that is naive.  I'm a white male in my 40s.  When I was in my early 20s, all of my favorite songs and movies were littered with the N word.  Talking about Snoop, Dre, NWA, Cube for music.  Maybe some Ghetto Boys and Bushwhack Bill.  And for movies - maybe Pulp Fiction, etc.

It was a huge part of my vocabulary only because I mimicked what I heard constantly. [/quote]

Then you were an idiot.  I am of your generation, had these same cultural influences, but still had the common sense to know that I could not appropriate that pattern of speech.[/quote]

I'm baffled that any white person in our generation thinks it's ok to use the n-word.

It's somewhat similar (thought I think to a lesser degree, without or at least with a different kind of history) to women using terms like 'bitches.' Women referring to their friends as 'my bitches' may be a bit tasteless, but it's FAR more ok to for women to use it in a positive sense, regarding themselves, than men referring to women as bitches.

The degree is different and I don't mean to compare the term "bitch" to the n-word, but I think it's in a somewhat similar vein.

In general, people adopt derogatory terms used about their own group all the time, and try and "own" the term themselves in large part to reconfigure the power of the word, and take back at least part of the definition.

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