i'm kind of rebellious in that sense. whats good for goose is good for the gander. i don't buy into double standards. i'm not into appeasing a group for any reason, let alone for something that itself perpetuates a new racism. "you can't use nigga because that'd be the white man crashing our picnic. you don't know of our struggle. you were the ones holding us down. you using that word, even without a hateful connotation AND a structure revision, is disrespectful and we don't feel you've earned the right to say it because your ancestors weren't discriminated against." i say FUNK all that. we live in a world with a strict, multi-tiered class system. EVERYONE at some point has been discriminated against with varying levels of intensity. i'm not down-playing what they went thru, but seriously, it's been a while. slavery is long, long gone in America. i'd appreciate a green light from the black community for white folks use the word nigga.

note: nigger and nigga aren't the same word anymore. they mean two completely different things. nigger is a faceless, colorless ignorant individual. nigga is a friend to whom you've lent trust or sometimes used as a term of endearment used for friend prone to folly.