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I often have people ask me what I think of the usage of the word nigger, and when I mean often, I mean all the goddamn time. This is a frequent occurrence if you are black in the United States of America. It is as if white people come to black people so that we can give them a "getaway with racism free card" so they do not feel bad about their negative thoughts about black people. These white people believe that, as long as they have their friends' permission to be racist that it is just honky dory and all is well or they believe that, as long as they are quoting Tupac or some other rapper, that it is all good in the hood. For a short time, back when I had been convinced by society that I was worthless, I very stupidly agreed with this very immature and ignorant interpretation of free speech rights. Did you know that white people in early American frequently got into duels (a fancy term for a shootout) all because of a simple insult? That's right, you had the right to say as much stupid shit as you wanted back then, and someone also had the right to kill you for it...legally. Back before I knew real history, I did not know just how often hate speech has historically led to violence. Back then I was giving people the benefit of the doubt. I was assuming that the only reason white people wanted to say nigger was because they thought it was funny. I was not asking myself why they thought it was funny or who taught them that it was funny in the first place. I did not know that their desire to say the word nigger was simply a part of the same American "culture" that thinks its cool to fly the rebel confederate flag and that thinks shooting black teenagers dead in the street is no call for alarm. Yeah, that culture. The culture that also thought it was just fine not to hire black people, to just let us slowly starve to death, to "breed us out" as the social darwinists referred to it. This is also the same culture that hates black humor by the way because it's too loud, too expressive, too emotive, too black, you see? It's the same "culture" that does not allow black people to play major roles because it is too "unrealistic" for us to come from happy families, for us to live healthy lives, for us to eat anything other than slave food, for us to be lawyers or doctors or artists. Yes, the culture that convinced you that all black people are high school dropouts with drug problems who deserve to be executed in the street. The same culture that taught you that a dog was more valuable to society than a young black boy. Yes, that "culture", the culture that thought it was just fine to try to kill elected officials, to crucify Mathew Shepard, to intimidate Hatian immigrants, to philosophize about Jewish space lasers. That's right, that culture. The Bill Maher culture. The Joe Rogan culture. The Ben Shapiro culture. The hooded buffoons burning crosses are smarter than black college grads culture. The "hey, it's just a swastika, no big deal" culture. Yeah, that same old stupid ass crackhead culture that has caused destruction everywhere it has gone. No, I don't think white people should go around saying nigger this and nigger that. It's not funny. It's not edgy. It's not even human. It's stupid. But don't you worry. Don't you cry snow flakes. I am not going to censor you. Natural selection will take care of that soon enough. Time is on my side. 

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