Why do so many white people want to use the "N" word?

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15. I must be getting old

When I was young, f^(k and sh!# were bad words that would get you a trip to the principal's office and a whupping at home. N!@@** was merely an offensive word that was not said in polite company. I've seen the polite version change from colored to Negro to black to Afro-American to African-American. With the number of multi-racial children being born, I expect that will lose favor for another term in a few more years.

We didn't even have a "c-word" because that was before they taught sex education (and all the different names for the 'naughty bits') in school. Back then, I don't think you could even use the word "prostitute" on radio or TV, you had to use a euphemism, like "call girl" or "lady of the evening". Certainly couldn't yell "slut!" into an open microphone.

Words change over time. If you called someone a "Papist" or a "friend of Sappho" today, I doubt most people would get the drift. But whatever word you use in whatever circumstance, it says more about the person that utters it than it does about the person it is directed toward.