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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  The n word is used a lot by older southern people. My Grandmothers aunt who raised her would occasionally use it but not in a necessary terrible way just as if some one would say black person she would say the n word it was just how she was raised. She was anything from a terrible person though. She married her husband and took in all of his kids and was there mother and took in my Grandmother and her Brother and did amazing things and touched many lives. I also think if people don't want to be called a certain name they should also not call each other a certain name. |
Personally I wonder if blacks use the word in a comraderic fashion to try to take ownership of it themselves in an effort to take much of the vile sting and power out of it from the whites who used it to to benefit themselves and dehumanize the whole black race in referring to its people derogatorily as nothing more than chattel and property for centuries right up through to the present time. It means total subjugation and humiliation, lack of any power and pain of every kind and use of force to be made to serve and work and humble oneself in behalf of a race of people whether they wanted to or not, liked it or not. I am only surmising but if I could take the power from a word that had been used against my family and my people from way back, I believe I would.
Women allow other women to call them "bitch" playfully and often use the term right back to them but no man or employer had better step in their face and use that term or tell jokes using it in their presence. Kind of the same thing but to a far, far lesser extent.