And as a grown man I definitely appreciate your opinion as well as others... I, for myself, just view it as hypocritical to use it and then get offended... It is what it is though...
But it's not.
As has been stated, I can say something about my wife or my brother but the next person better not unless they want a problem. People in a group can speak to and about each other in a way that people outside the group can't. That's not just Black people and the "n-word", that's every group.
We're the only ones that get singled out. That's the hypocrisy.
How in the world can someone get mad at someone else for doing the same thing? And, expect to be taken seriously?
Unless you have an army to back you, it makes you look like a fool... to everyone.
Taken seriously by who? White folks? Why the fuck would I care how "serious" they take me? Even with "good" White folks (and I have several close friends who are White and they know how I feel) racism/White supremacy is their default mode. Whether we use this one single word or not, won't change that fact.


