I seriously don’t think they give a ****. Whites don’t get a pass either way.

Blacks can pronounce it as they please.

I don’t even think most of them give a **** about the word in and of itself. It’s that using it suggests you’re looking for trouble and they have an honor code to take on all comers. Blacks here don’t exactly have big city militancy. Wiki puts blacks at 35% of the local population and there wasn’t a peep over the George Floyd thing.

Racists who brag about how many black friend they have and try to speak for them then act like it's ridiculous to let all of their black friend speak for himself are worse.

In my experience you're wrong

They give a pass to certain white people sometimes. But even across the board the reaction is way different if you say something like what's up, nigga vs what's up, n*gger

I was being tongue in cheek when I bragged about black friends and street cred as an argument lol

Are you seriously telling me the black people you've met make no distinction between er and a as and ending syllable to the n word?

I am not. You and OH are the only ones here speaking for black people as far as I can tell.

I speak for mankind

Other wise known as the m word

Hmm.

Honestly I’ve never heard a white person use the n-word around blacks in a friendly way ever. Seeing how I like my teeth where they are I don’t plan on testing your hypothesis.

I still think it’s just a spelling differentiation not a genuine matter of pronunciation unless it’s unnaturally forced. If anything it’s just a matter of dialect and accent.

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