Sweetie, as someone said before, due to the history of the word (you know that whole ''slavery/segregation/lynching thingy'' that happened ''soooooo'' many years ago); white people should avoid using it.
Your whole ‘well black people use it so big deal’ reason still does not make it a good idea for any white person to call a black person a nigga or nigger. Most black people will probably feel more offended if a white person calls then a nigga or nigger than if a black person does.
The word nigga when used among black people has a different meaning then when it was first used as nigger. The point is, whether that makes sense to you are not, when black people use it among each other most times it is understood and many cases accepted.
Today they are still many white people who use the word nigger or nigga in the exact same way it was used in its heyday. Therefore when a white person uses it, there’s always going to be the question of intent.
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