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Originally Posted by jive
I don't know where her and her sister learned that it is okay to speak like that but I know if I said nigger around my friends/family they would look at me like I was a complete idiot and wonder what was wrong with me. I really don't think a black person referring to their friend as "nigger" is any more appropriate. I don't call my white friends honky's...
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Actually, what black people are saying isn't 'nigger' it's 'niggah.' Different spelling. But while you make a good point, all groups have people in them that refer to each other by slurs.
Some gays guys will call each other fag, I've heard some white people call each other cracker or honky, etc. It may seem inappropriate to do, but sometimes people feel that if they use the words among themselves as a term of endearment, crazy as that sounds, that it negates the negative sting. Whether that's true or not is another story.