the word nigger(especially because it's easily replaced by "black")

Wait... what? Those two words mean very different things. "nigger" != "black". Nigger is its own word, we don't need to keep explaining it and qualifying what it is or isn't. It's a hateful, pejorative term and that's it. It's very simple. I don't see why people are still hemming and hawing about when it's OK, or when it's not OK to use it or if it would be better to use another word instead.

Here's the thing, if you have racist feelings towards people who have skin that's darker than yours (for whatever reason) and you say something other than "nigger" when talking about them, guess what? You're still a fucking racist. One word does not a racist make, it's the person saying the word, not the word that makes the racist.

Undercovermother's child isn't a racist because they were probably brought up in a decent home and taught not to hate people. It has absolutely NOTHING with whether or not they heard a word from some book that was written 100 years ago. When Undercovermother was reading Huck Finn the only person who was uncomfortable with hearing the word "nigger" was her, not her kid.

When we overreact to a word and act as if the word is something special, we give it power. Why do you think Voldemort wanted no one to say his name? Because if everyone is afraid to say his name then when they finally do hear it they freak out. But if you say He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named then I know who you're fucking talking about. That information still gets across. But we're giving him power by doing so. It's the same with nigger and saying "the n-word". It's like Lenny Bruce said, if the president would just come out on CNN and say "Hello, I'd like to introduce you to the niggers form my cabinet, they're doing a lot of good work right now trying to fix this economy. I think the niggers in the house and the senate really need to get to work because we've got some changes we want implimented..." and if you said nigger and I said nigger and we all just kept saying it until it lost all meaning. Then it wouldn't be so damn hurtful.

But when the NAACP wants to "bury" the word and they want to make a big deal out of it every time someone says it then it's going to continue to be a powerful word.

Here's the really fucked up thing about the word "nigger" is that there's two groups of people who feel OK saying it. Black people and racists. I dunno, seems like there's something wrong about that. Why don't we all just start using it?

Anyways, I gotta get my nigger-ass back to work. My boss is getting suspicious. I never type this much.