Why do Afrikans laugh & joke about using the **N-WORD**when other nationalites get scourned for using the word
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I think blacks(African Americans) feel comfortable in using the word,because they have adapted an separate meaning from the word's original intent, but get mad when other races use it because it was used as an insult to our race for so long! But to be honest, some black people are offended when they word is used so carelessly and freely by other blacks, because it was a word to express the ultimate disgust and disrespect for a race that whites did not even consider human...we were considered 3/5 of a person!!! So actually, NONE of us should use "their" (not their meaning white people, but their meaning RACIST people) term of disrespect for us as a term of "brotherhood"...but it happens.  I don't know why its so comfortable for it to just slip out of our mouths!!! But when I think about how painful it must have been for our ancestors to be disrespected in such a way, it always makes me think more conciously about what come out of my mouth and not use the word freely as a slang term.\n\nBTW...I like your question because you were not a smart azz in asking it!!! And its something that Black people definitely should think about!!!
418553
Why can I call my girlfriend ugly, or an idiot, and she thinks it funny, but if someone else says it she'd probably be offended and cry?\n\nAh, probably because the ways it's said, the meaning behind it, the sharing of feeling behind it.\n\nI think a black person is right to be offended when a person of ANY other race says that.  If they wish to use that term as a word of kinship and sharing amongst themselves, great.. but from anyone else it still is truly a word of disrespect.
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What an obtuse question!\n\nSimply because that word was used by certain people precisely <as> a term of offense to describe 'some other people'.\n\nYour question would have much more validity if it were "why did white people decide to use that word as a term of offense in the first place?"\n\nYes we know that black people use the word within their own community, just as gay people use the word 'queer'. But that doesn't change the fact that the word was first given currency as a deliberate insult.
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Because whites used it as hate during slavery and segregation in the 1960's and probably some still do. Did you see the movie Malcom X he said he was call Nigger so much he swear it was his name. The word was use in our generation and not looong ago. So any whites who use it would be seen as racist because it was why they used the word, to insult them. For white to use it also will mean it okay to call someone offensive names.
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There just remarks. \n\nYou might not be racist just because of a remark. \n\nLook at jokes on nationalities-they are just jokes and many laugh. Or jokes on men and women-we laugh. But they could be called raciest\n \n Who ever in post above ,said ba ba black sheep is right-it is how it is perceived.
856527
there should be no punishment, let me ask this in return what should chris rocks punishment be for calling white people crackers, or carlos mencea for saying spick,or kike,or whoop or jap, or nigger,or honkey.  You dont see fit to punish them so why punish this man.  As all other comedians say if you are easly offended or cant take a joke dont watch.  He may have said it out of spite but maybe the individuals deserved it for being rude and inconsiderate to him.  It sounds to me that justifys them to be called the names they where.  Now quite wasting our time with issues that dont directly concern you.  If you are african american go listen to rap music you will hear that word every 5 seconds but you arnt complaining about those musicians saying it.  hypocrates!!!!
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Yes, You are racist. And who cares about the word??? If they want to use it , let them. It is derogatory for a white person to use it...And ,in my mind, It's derogatory for a black person to use it too. but, like I said...If they do...Who fucking cares? People say a lot of things I don't like...I don't lose any sleep over it.
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alright people listen up..i've read a couple of the responses to this question and i came to this conclusion.  the word "nigger" only has negitive meaning because we give it this meaning,  not to say it is ever accepable to use this word for it's originally intended purpose(to degrade, insult and characterize based on skin color)it's not "your" word if your black just like cracker isn't a white people only word.  THEY ARE JUST WORDS and until our society can get passed these words of ignorance there will always be problems with race.  i'm a "nigger" & a "cracker" and so are all of us.  so i urge all of you to quit using these old words and lets think of a word that discribes us all...\n.....maybe something like "human"\n\nP.S. I think its real funny that the word nigger won't show up on the board but "cracker" will.(thats a double standard)
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I think it's because the "n" word has historically been such an oppressive, negatively-charged word... it was used in a very derogatory way back when slavery and segregation were a normal part of life.  For white people to use the word in modern times is like giving a nod of approval to the way black people were treated back then.  Black people using racial slurs to refer to white people is still a bit unpleasant, but it doesn't have quite that same historical undertone to it.
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Most black people do not use that word. You hear a few people say that & you group everyone in the category. Calling each other the "N" word is like when female friends call each other the "B" word. It's not a problem until someone outside of their circle tries to do it. Don't try to understand it. Just don't do it. The "N" is not offensive because of the actual word. It was because the person using that word could beat you, scream at you, disrespect you & accuse you of stuff you didn't do. And then they would call you that name while doing it. That's why when a black person hears that words, it triggers a defense mechanism.
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I think ^ means someone is going to get violated. But it was funny, some people just have no sense of humor. Libs are calling us cry babies, sore losers etc, but when you try to make yourself feel better with a bit of humor they don't like that either. Libs need to grow up!
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sometimes the message just doesn't get across because you can't tell body language or hear inflection.  \n\notherwise, i'd say a large part of the online community simply has too large a stick up their behinds to laugh at themselves or to ever consider that so much of their very existence is laughable to others.
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Sincere? yes.  Is it something he had to do? yes. is he racist? yes. does he want to be racist? No! ..........let the heeling begin.\n Should black comics use the N word? No! they have a moral obligation to stop also.
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I dont see why he needs to apologize to anyone other than the heckler , if he feels bad about it . I think the "N" word is over dramatized anyway. I would not use the n word unless I meant it , then anybody that didn't like it can kiss my azz.
754673
They saw the question before you - its as simple as that.\n\nBTW why do you have LMAO? You do realise it means Laughing My @ss Off.
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It's a general derogatory statement.\n\nSimilarly, Mexican "Cholo's" use the word "Fool" in the same context, i.e. "Hey fool, what are you and Sonia doing in my car, ese?".\n\nAlso, the urban African-American youth use the word "Nigg@" in the same fashion.\n\n"Blood Clot" and "Bum Cloth" came from the same expression;  if you watch the movie "Rockers", they interchange the two.  \n\nThe patois form Jamaican Creole is a mix of Arawakan and colonist languages of French, Dutch, Porteguese, and Spanish. The origin of the word lies within a mix of all of these languages.\n\nEDIT:  I've heard that it means "Vagina, i.e. Pu$$y", "Bit.ch", "Punk", "Hooligan", "Thug", etc, etc...  Too many to name.
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Yes, and I don't really understand why you're defending him. When people get angry or drunk their true colors come to the surface. Him using the "n" word wasn't even the big point, it was the context in which he used it. If saying the "n" word doesn't mean you're a racist then why is the "n" word a racial slur?