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The idea that a person can use the word nigger without touching upon the negative history behind it as almost as ignorant as walking into a holocaust museum with a "Hitler was a decent guy" tee-shirt. The desire in using the word today lies in it's negative history and it's negative connotation - regardless of the color of your skin. Sure it might just mean another word for friend to you but if it weren't such a hot topic word you wouldn't use it.
You can tell yourself that the word has been re-invented and that now it means a completely different thing but you're only denying the real reason that you use it. From what I've seen, most blacks use the word because they feel as if the negative history behind the word and the suffering their ancestors suffered is a badge of honor to be worn - one should never forget the past but that idea is sickening. Most whites use it today because of it's negative history and the fact that the word has some sort of power because of it's negative history.
The word nigger along with the whole social construct of race should be abolished and whiped from the minds of all human beings. Besides, the whole system of race was created to establish a non-existent and unfair difference between people. Therefore by aknowledging any part of it and by using the words nigger, craker, wop....you only perpetuate the problem.
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