For those interested:

http://www.campusprogress.org/featur...n-word-already

written by a black person


and there is a good book to read too:

Ni**er: The strange Career of a Troublesome Word byRandall Kennedy


Sorry to wax on this subject but growing up in a black community going to majority black schools and being white I have often encounted bias and double standards when I was young and was hanging with my niggaz. I used the term until one day I was assalted by another group of kids that heard me use the term when I was with my group of friends. The kids in my group knew I was down, cool, hip whatever but the other group just saw a white dude using the word.

Since that day I just thought the whole situation was ridiculous