I've been called the N-word nearly my entire life. Many people have who aren't black. Sorry, there's no monopoly anymore. i'm white, partly native, we get called Bush-N...s up here. I've been beaten while being calling the N word, can i use the word? In the middle east they're harassed as Sand-N... in the same way, can they use it? is you criteria that only black people can use it? or only black people that have had it used against them? or any person that's had it used against them? i'm confused? oh wait... so are you.
Words evolve, and aren't owned by anyone.
The idea that you own a word because it's been used against you is asinine. I don't use it because i choose not to. But i'm also not offended by it.
Nor do i think people 'just can't wait' to use it. It's a movie, i thought it was used just fine, and i get to say so, because i've been abused by it as much as anyone else on here, with the blessing of my co-ownership of the word, i bless this film with the right to use it. A right placed on me by the fact that it was used in a hateful, racist way while being abused.
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