Reply #142: I've never used the term, and wouldn't

[AbbyR]

One of the memories I have of my kids when they were young was when my daughter, age about five or six, came home from school one day and and asked "Mama, what's a nigger?" Obviously, she never heard it at our house. (I told her it was a bad word that unkind people call black people when they want to hurt them, and I expected her never to use it.)

Having said that, I have a really bad problem about a WORD being forbidden to anyone. Maybe it's the writer in me, but if you can say a word, I should be able to say it, too. Whether I would say it or not is another question altogether.

But all of this is WAY off the original post's topic.