[MMARSH]

hmmm, my mother and law was called nigger repeatedly as she was being hosed down while walking the streets with Martin luther King. She had a lot of time to reflect on that as she sat in the jail cell afterwards. She was twelve years old then. Make no mistake, that word hurts just as much today as it then did. Hell, it might hurt more today just based on the fact that you can not be a white person in america today and not have a clue as to the depth of that word. When you use it, your using it to cut deep.

It's funny, During Thanksgiving today. We had a house full of both young and old black people. Lots of family and friends coming and going. I did not hear the words nigger or nigga used once as a greeting

We don't use that word in my household, In fact, I don't know of any black people that do use the word. Just because you've heard it on a rap song or heard Samuel Jackson or David Chappelle use it doesn't mean it's endorsed by the black community.

Have I been called a nigger? yep, while being chased down the street, simple because I was walking down that street and happened to be black. As an adult, I won't be chased down the street anymore. Have I been called a nigga? Yep. Don't care for that one either and I let the person know. The difference is the person calling me a nigger has complete and utter hate for who I am as a human being.

MR lost it. Is he a racist? I don't think so. I think he was being heckled by a black man and in order to cut him down he called him a nigger. it was personal, it was deliberate. he knew exactly what he was doing. he wasn't trying to be funny( he'd already failed at that, that's why he was being heckled in the first place) he was trying to belittle the man in the biggest possible way.