Why?

**aoa_stripes** · August 13th, 2007, 10:05 PM

I was flipping through the channels last night, and who knows why I stopped at the Roast of Flavor Flav? But I watched a few minutes just because I was amazed. Why is it ok for African Americans to call each other the N word but nobody else? I'm not trying to ruffle feathers or offend anyone just a cicilized discussion. Not just on TV you hear it out in Public and in schools. A group of African Americans could be standing around throwing the N word out left and right, but if they were to hear anyone else say it, it ends up in argument or fight. I fully understand African Americans not wanting to be called the degrading name, but at the same time how degrading is it if they call one another the name? And no I'm not speaking about every African American before anyone getson here calling me a racist.

**pvfan** · August 13th, 2007, 10:11 PM

Why is it ok for you and me to put each other down but nobody else can or we'll take up for the other one? Same concept in my opinion.

**CoeburnCane** · August 13th, 2007, 10:21 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PVFAN</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why is it ok for you and me to put each other down but nobody else can or we'll take up for the other one? Same concept in my opinion.</div></div>

Cosign. The crazy thing is that if you get close to someone who's a minority and you're a true friend w/them, regardless of if you're white and they're mexican/asian/african-american, you can get by with that as long as you're willing to good-naturely accept a honky, cracker, or other "whitey" word from them in return.

I used to hang out at Flatwoods and play basketball all the time in HS and shortly after. After a while, I had some friends there that I was close enough with that I could call them the N word, they'd call me cracker (though, w/as white as I am, they loved calling me Powder), and it'd be all in fun. You have to be real comfortable with that person and they have to be the same with you in order for that to happen though.

It's all in the approach and whether or not you can turn a racial epithet on its' ear and take it with a grain of salt and treat it as just another word, as opposed to a label or a word of hate harboring.

**imported_MoonlightGraham** · August 13th, 2007, 10:23 PM

I disagree...I have a few close black friends and would never think about calling them the N word, simply because it would prob end in a fight.

However a few years back when I was playin college ball I had two close puerto rican friends. And we used to give them a hard time and they just went along with it, givin it right back to us.

i.e. While at a mexican restaurant...Hey Raphy go talk to them see if you can get us an employee discount.

Raphy: hey how do you keep two white guys from raping a girl? give them tennis raquets.

**knight_67** · August 13th, 2007, 11:23 PM

i've got a close black girl/friend, everyone calls her niggaboo, which she prefers, but i can't even bring myself to callin her that, i just gotta stick with her real name

**imported_mega** · August 14th, 2007, 08:31 AM

Id never even bother calling a black person the N word. They might be accepting of it one day, but that one day they are in a bad mood or whatever, things would probably be different. Black people are less sensitive about the N word with igga on the end than igger on the end. Never refer to black people as COLORED either. That pisses them off worse than being called an igger. Igga is more socially respected because its something they sort of came up with or derived. Igger and Colored were our(white) peoples terms (Not sure if white people invented those words but those are the words we used during sensitive times)

nplz

**imported_elp6n** · August 14th, 2007, 08:46 AM

It's a case of "I can insult/fight with/name call my family (in the broad sense) all I want, but if someone else does it's going to be a fight"

Acceptable to some. Not acceptable to others.