Lions Den

Yesterday I was at a bar with some friends and one of them turned out to be a little more ignorant than I thought. If you don't know me, I go out with a black man. You can probably tell where this story is going already. Pretty much this guy thought it would be OK to say the N word to my boyfriend really loudly in the middle of the bar and not at least get bitched at. Well his explanation for it was, he knew he wasn't racist therefore it was just a term of affection for him and not meant to put anyone down. Well not only did my boyfriend get mad but another black man in the bar heard what he said, paid his tab, and left because he did not want to be around such stupidity. They way I look at it is, if you know the word is offensive to the black community and you claim you have respect for the black community, then you should have enough respect to not say it in the of presence of the black community. But on the other hand I will say that if black people are going to say it's an offensive word then nobody should be able to use it. If a white person cannot say it to a black person then a black, Hispanic, or Asian should not be able to say it. If a black person says it to another race then you just gave that race permission to say it back. Just some advice for the black community, don't degrade yourself by saying the N word and then nobody else will use it. No matter whose saying it, it still holds the same meaning, an offensive slur meaning ignorant, stupid, and uneducated. Everybody, keep ya head up!