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just go find a black friend to come over and "get mad" when she says it. I think she just has to realize that it would actually offend someone.
seriously though, i think the only people who have a right to be offended by this word are people who don't use it or any other racial slurs.
Another thing i just don't get (while we're on the topic) is how there are all these scholarships and stuff just for certain ethnicities. Then, the majority of kids who gets these scholarships grew up in nice places where they never even faced racism. I have a korean friend who's as white as the next girl (under the skin anyway) and she got huge freakin scholarships for being a minority. Never in her life did she face racism. If i (being a whitey) tried applying for an ethnic exclusive scholarship, they'd laugh at me. But if anyone ever tried making a white exclusive scholarship, they'd be racist. There's even ethnic exclusive clubs at universities, but of course there aren't any white exclusive clubs because that's obviously racist. Now i've never tried to join one of these ethnic exclusive clubs, but i'm pretty sure they wouldn't embrace it with open arms. My last point is about all of the 'prides'. I guess i don't know if they're really around too much anymore except maybe gay pride, but I seem to remember hearing alot of ethnic prides. once again, white pride just wouldn't go over well. It's the same for straight pride, except then i'd be a homophobe. all of these things say to me that i'm being oppressed because i can't be proud of who i am and i can't give back to just my people. In reality, i don't really care because my life has been good, but when i hear people talk about the "n" word, all I can think of is 'good lord, slavery ended a long time ago, you're the ones that kept the word alive anyway, let it go'.
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