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I’m an Asian child. Wow, how horrible of me to not censor a word because I’m not in the right “racial group” to say it.

Mind you, I’ve only ever used that word like twice. One was in a class where we had to read text involving that language at the time it was used when African/African American slaves were fleeing from the South(The American South). The only other time I used it was in that post.

I don’t use racial slurs for my own use. That’s not how I roll. I don’t call Caucasians “White people”, nor do I call Asians “Yellows” or “Chinks” , Afrikan/African Americans “black”, and Native Americans “Reds”. 

And personally? What’s the point to it? It’s been discussed before why it’s okay for African Americans to call fellow persons of the same ‘colour’ a “nigga” but when someone else says it, specifically Caucasians or those of European descent, it’s the end of the world.

Like, okay yes slave trades are a terrible thing and lots of shit happens with it. But mind you it wasn’t just the 'whites’ who conducted these trades. Afrikan/African tribes capture other neighboring tribes and sell them off for slave trades too. Holy shit what’s that? It wasn’t just Caucasians doing it? Oh my god.

I know people who aren’t “black” who use the slur “nigga” all the freakin’ time in casual conversation. And it doesn’t really seem all that fair to keep a racial slur 'in the clear’ if it’s under the same racial group that was originally discriminated in it.

I prefer to not use it, but that’s just me. It’s extremely rare for me to actually use the slurs used in this post and that one other one in a serious conversation unless it involves racial history.