Why do black people call each other ''Nigger''?

wtp · Mar 20, 2011

This article defines all the meanings of the words incredibly accurately.

http://www.mpsaz.org/mtnview/staff/...files/the_meanings_of_a_word_text_version.pdf

Lil Joker Xx · Mar 21, 2011

All I know is that if I said it, I'd get beat up.
But if I was black...

Yet people sometimes say it to me.

madhacker14 · Mar 21, 2011

Just slang they like to call another black person, in Florida I hear it so constantly I never stopped to question it. It's the same as "finna" and such, they just incorperated new words overtime, and use them in their vocabulary.

kill dank · Mar 21, 2011

Because they're stupid. I know a lot of black people that never say nigga or nigger or anything like that. The ones use terms like that call each other nigga and niggers because that's what they are.

Ricky · Mar 21, 2011

Because the can..

But yea it's like there own word and only they can use..

Rejection · Mar 21, 2011

I, if I'm honest, think it's quite unfair that Black people can communicate this word between themselves without exactly causing offence, but if a white man was to call it them, they take offence. Surely you can't have it both ways. Maybe you can, just how I see it.

GregTampa · Jan 10, 2014

think of it this way:
Your dad’s friends can call him Billy. But you, his son, probably can’t. You can call your wife “baby,” but if your friend called her that, it would be wrong.

so in that context all your claims are false and the word has context in meaning to whom said it.

so when you say well black people can call other black people it and im white, yet your white thats it; they are black; they know more about black culture then you; cause your white!

but whites think blacks are dumb for calling themselves that; then thats on the whites as they know more about whites then blacks...

but both sides cat say one thing on behalf of other race...

is it right that they can do it; sure, because is it right for you to call your mom your mom and others can't?...

another point was brought up "nigga" not "nigger" well that is just a word, no matter it sounds the same or different it don't matter.. same as mom mommy mother ... who cares..

just saying peace out -mob

Smaug · Jan 11, 2014

Probably because they don't get how insulting it actually is. Some African American folks mean no harm by saying it and some do I guess it just depends on the terms its used in. I do not use that word in my vocabulary simply because of the background of the work out of respect for those who died to make the world as it is today.