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Originally Posted by Xerxys
Errr, dippin, In my earlier post, I said it was my experience. The black community DO use the word nigger (historical content et al) to dehumanize and INSULT each other. Do some of the basest of the white community do this too? Of course they do ...
I am in the capital city of NC and I have little contact with the outskirts of the rural areas. Here, my experience of racial slurs is they are often used by blacks against blacks themselves. A black person will readily call a white person, "my nigga" in friendly terms and insult a fellow black person WITH THE SAME DAMN WORD!!
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I have never seen any situation where black people used nigger as the insult itself. Part of sentences that are used in confrontations, yes, but Ive never seen or can imagine a situation where a black person simply yells "nigger" to another, or simply says "you're a nigger."
In any case, again context means the world. A black person using that word will never have the same meaning as a white person. In any case, the fact that black people have appropriated the word among themselves is really not enough to make the original intent of the word non-racist.