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White people insist on their right to say the n-word because to do otherwise would be to allow black people some power over them.
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Even though that power is only the power to demand the most basic interpersonal respect.
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To allow them even that is a challenge to white supremacy, to the assumption that white people dictate all the rules.
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And not only that, but anyone -can- say it. No one can force someone's jaw not to use a word. They mean without upsetting anyone.
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And the idea of demanding that level of control from everyone offended by that word just so I could use it for lulz is SUPER gross.
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That, & as evidenced by responses, many whites are ignorant & don't know much history of racism or that word.
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So to them there's no context of how white supremacy still exists & how a word that dehumanizes blacks is still part of vicious racism.
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does your black friend speak on behalf of all black people everywhere?
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