What are your views on the word ni99er?

i think that word is disgusting and nobody should use it, if it was like that, then these people who claim it as a racist word wouldn't hear that again and it would make life alot easier! :O)

No, if they don't want other races to call them that, they shouldn't use the word themselves. If they would just all stop using the word, in a few years no one would really know what it meant or referred to anymore accept for OLD people.

I understand why they have chosen to try to take the word away from white people. I think it is an attempt to take its power away. And that does sometimes work. For example, calling a homosexual "gay" used to be considered derogatory, but now it's not because they adopted the word. When you aren't insulted by a word, it loses its sting. However, with the N-word, I don't think that's going to work. Too many people have been through too much. There is too much baggage. That is one word that IMO belongs on the trash-heap of our vocabulary and I wish no one would ever use it again, black or white.

i think that if a white person was to use the word there would be uproar but if a black person does its ok this is stupid if the word is seen as an insult then why call each other in such a rude and degrading manner double standards in my book. why get offended if a white person calls you a ni99er when your mates call you that all the time ? the logic is beyond me really.

Well, if everybody called everybody, white and black, by this term it would just mean person all the best urban

If the N-word is a fad, maybe it will pass out of the language like all slang does. No one says neat-o any more. Yet that word is such an evil one, with such an ugly history, I can see why people would try to take the sting out of it, by using it themselves. They are taking control of the word. To me, the sooner the N-word is gone the better, but if the word is gone but the racism remains, that's not a real improvement, is it?