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Old June 29th, 2007, 06:55 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kingcap72 View Post
To be blunt, black people didn't create the word, and we're not the only ones that use it. Black people could stop using the word tomorrow and that wouldn't stop some white people from using it. But by your thinking, if black people use the word with each other than it should be okay for white people to use it too, right? But here's where that theory gets blown to bits. When black people use the term niggah to each other, it doesn't carry the same meaning as it would when a white person says it.
Remember that old show Gimme A Break? There was an episode where Samantha thought she was being cool and called Nell the "N" word. Nell had to give that little girl a talking to.

Then she sat on the little girl and squashed her..... well okay, I made that part up!
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