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Originally Posted by dippin
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.
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I honestly don't get what your saying here. It's alright for a black person to say something like ... "that motherfucking nigger better watch his tongue" than it is for a white person? What, history makes it alright? Since when do two wrongs make a right, or two same kinds of infractions are wrong on different levels? The sentence very clearly expresses distaste in the person who is employing the use of the word. Are you saying that a white person saying the exact same thing with the exact same inflection carries heavier meaning?