[Serious] Singing the N-word

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There is a world of difference between the way it's meant in most music and the way it's meant when a racist says it. If you can't recognize the subtleties and cultural nuances of language, that's fine. Just don't expect me to similarly limit myself. Believe me, I'm equally offended when it's used in an offensive manner. It has a horrible history, but it's not up to me to tell black people they can't use it in a new way.

This seems to me to be the very nub of the gist - black people (and in this context, black artists) are using the word in a way that doesn't have derogatory or racist connotations.  But they're being sort of sort of two faced by insisting that white people not say the word in precisely the same way.  If Ice-NukkleBoy22 (made that up, I don't the names of that many rap artists) uses the word in a song to mean 'my friends', 'my social group' and 'the people I hang out with', if I sing along to ALL the words, I'm using that word in exactly the same way and context as the artist.

Uttering a handful of syllables doesn't make someone a racist.

Boru