Why it gotta be a black thang?
No, but seriously, it certainly has a lot more power when a white man uses it to describe a black man than vice versa. I find the odd use of the word and the word used in certain jokes to be pretty funny, but it most certainly is exclusively a black thing.
Just because whiteys use it now and black people refer to each other with it does not erase the horrendous things done in America to the black people under the umbrella of that label.
Keep in mind, I am not calling dcom a racist, because I don't think he is. I generally get what he's trying to say. But I don't agree that it's not exclusively a black thing. Calling a white guy a nigger won't do anything to him unless he's a white supremacist. But a white man can not go up to a black man and say, "What's up, nigger?".
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