Quote Originally Posted by Preme
Have wonderd something for a long time;

where i live you very very seldomly see a, well non white person, but say should a black peron(s) come into my say local, to us its just another person, not white black or anything. But i see out in america mainly, in the rap music, 'black films' alot of black stand ups they refer to eachother as 'nigger' alot, but if a white person says it it offends them?

i mean if a word is offensive, why call eachother it? you don't see gay people walking around saying stuff like "Whats up my faggot?"

All nigger means is black person doesn't it? how is that offensive? People used to call Welsh people 'taff' untill some tw@ went and made it politicaly incorrect to do so, yet you wont find a welsh person who gives a damn if someone called him or her taff ...

If black people just stopped reacting to the word nigger from white people it would soon cease to matter, and as i asked, if its such a bad word, why call eachother it?

Hope this post didn't hit a bit to close to home for anyone.
I'll help you with that

nigger means a person of any dark skinned race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.

Nigger is a term used to refer to dark-skinned peoples, especially Africans or Negroids. It is often used by other races, including blacks and is regarded as offensive in most social contexts.

At the time of the Atlantic slave trade, it was a standard, casual English term for black people. The word later became associated with an overt contempt, a racist assumption of inherent black inferiority, making it extremely pejorative.



And cracker means a poor white person living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S. or crazy.

So you tell me which is worse.

And most white people I know that live in the south call each other cracker all the time and have a laugh about it.

So you could say the same.


Both are bad. One was the one that started it, the other was retaliation.

Both are bad. Why not say it at all?