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Dog, when blacks use the name, it has a totally different meaning. When other people use it, it is meant to degrade you as a human being and to say, there's something less than human about you. My ex girl friend, who was black would once in a while call me the "N" name, but the meaning she has in mind is not what the bounty hunter had. The "N" word dehumanizes and makes it alright to view the person as some kind of animal.

Yes and I grew up in rural NC from slave owning descendants and in Detroit with the 'yankees'.

I heard the N word every single day of my life until I was 13 years old.

I was told "N's" were BELOW US, scum of the earth, only good for working in cotton/tobacco/cucumber/strawberry fields.......they were NOT to be associated with under ANY circumstances period.

Meanwhile my mother was picking tobacco, strawberries, cucumbers and she is white.

Blacks lived like pigs yet we didn't have indoor plumbing in the late 60's well into the mid 70's. My own grandmother didn't get an indoor bathroom until 1978!

Yet 'N's' were BELOW us.

It didn't take a second to realize that the hate we were being TAUGHT was hypocritical and WRONG!

I vowed as a child that my children would NEVER see color and NEVER be taught the N word or that being WHITE was RIGHT.

My children grew up in a home that looked like the United Nations summit meeting. Black, white, hispanic,Thai, Muslim, Buddist, Jewish, Christian........it DID NOT MATTER!

My children were taught to look at a persons HEART, not the skin color covering it. My granddaughter is being raised the same way.

HATE NO RACE, HATE NO COLOR, HATE NO RELIGION. HATE NO ONE.

Just because it was taught to me didn't make me buy into it nor pass it on to another generation.

I also come from a long line of alcoholics.....so I didn't drink. My children don't drink.

I also grew up in severe child abuse, sexual abuse and watched spousal abuse daily.......and I managed to not pass those horrible traits down to another generation.

Just because you hear the N word doesn't mean you have to SAY IT.

Just because you were beaten doesn't mean you have to be a BEATER.

You get my drift.

I'm 42, I saw the 'white only' and blacks went to the backdoor of every establishment.

I'm again living in NC after being gone 28 years.......things have changed quite a bit and I'm PROUD of the changes in people, but they still have a long way to go.

This is you problem, you grew up with the n.... word. Everyone does not use that word, but I bet you do and you did not use it because you heard blacks.The people you heard were probably clan members. What is your excuse for the Federal Mashalls forcing your schools to let Blacks past and Vote rights. You're not sorry ad neither is he. How many Blacks live in your old Auburn, Al neighborhood.

I bet you call your wife bitch, but you probably would even fight  a white man if he called her a bitch.

Were you one of those people who thought OJ Simpson should get sentencd to death, not for murder, but for marrying a white woman.

The N word is a word Southern whites used, projecting their own inferiority complex. and inadequacies. In reality Southern whites felt inferior to their Northern counterparts. Southern whites even developed the term Uppity"N" for the Blacks who had the audacity to get more education and wealth than them.

You see when anyone, Black or White, uses the word, it is out of ignorance or self-hate.

Are you ready to say "Sorry" for he cross burnings, white only places, noose hangings, and hangings which were  a part of Alabama?