Sweetie it is easy for you or anyone else to view black people as 'idiots' over this, especially given your lack of understanding of the issue from their perspective. As a black person, while I don't use the word(never have), I can still understand why they wouldn't feel offended if a black person called them that and they would of a white person did.
The point I am trying to make is that regardless of how idiotic you feel it is, many black people DO and WILL get offended once someone from another race uses the word. I doubt use of the word among the black community will end anytime soon. Black people will feel justified in being offended once a white person uses the word. Your lack of understanding or agreement to this fact is inconsequential.
For the sake of race relations it would just be better if white people didn't use the word.
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