[split] The word 'Nigger' and other slurs

[Godscreated]

As someone from the same generation I personally think the white kid to do that are stupid. like I said if you can't understand where words come from what they mean and how they used you shouldn't use them. And that's my final say on the subject if you know that a word(s) will hurt someone you shouldn't use it.

I disagree. Again we are talking about context here. They are not saying the word with racial or malicious intent, or to parody or satirize black people. They are using it in the same exact tone and context as if they had instead said, "What's up man."

And I also disagree that I should not say words simply because people find it offensive. Do you know how many offensive words there are and have been? Is it every person's responsibility to keep an encyclopedia of offensive remarks that they shouldn't repeat? Should I refrain from saying "God dammit!" or "Jesus Christ" in exclamation because a Christian is offended that I took the Lord's name in vain? Have you ever bought something that immediately broke and cry out, "I got gyped!"? Originally a slant against gypsies. Ever use the word hooligan? Used to mean a drunken Irish man. Or is it maybe easier to not take offense so quickly.

If we cannot say things that offend other people, then what if you telling me that I shouldn't say offensive things, offends me? What do you do now?

This is not directly at you but, to everyone here that's to young to remember when black people were treated wrongly... no, badly, disrespected, something less than human, well I do remember and understand what the word meant.
I would get on a bus and the sign said blacks must sit in the back, I would go to a water fountain the sign said whites only, I would go to the restroom and the sign would say whites only, I would set down at the counter of a diner and the sign would say blacks not served, signs every where whites only or blacks can't this or that. I remember asking my mom what was wrong with black people that they weren't allowed to be a part of society. During WWII a group of black soldiers were not served in a diner, while a group of nazi prisoners were served meals, yes these very men we asked to defend this country were treated worse than the soldiers that eventually were part of a people that not only permitted racism but practiced it to the extreme. Black people were treated worse as a people after they became free than before. That word so many believe is okay to use, represented the lowest ideas of one human against another. So use it if you like, but I hope you will remember the word represents the worst in humanities treatment of it's self.

GC