As the title say, what percentage of non-black **women **you know use “n-word”?
There is a sister poll for the male percentage.
I have a very small circuit, I admit but I’ve never heard any of them use it, nor do I. If they did I’d seriously reconsider my friendship with them. I’m a bit of a fuddy duddy I guess but it even makes me uncomfortable when younger folk (I actually follow a lot on Tumblr/Twitter) use the word “nigga”/“niggah” to refer to someone of any race with “swag” or whatever. I just wasn’t raised like that.
Females using n-word, whether white or non-white/non-black, is almost non-existence and negligible in my experience compared to men, particularly white men. Mostly I heard it at work places bad mouthing co-workers or gossiping, etc. I wonder what the poll will show…
Are you including “academic” use, such as in discussions of racial slurs?
No, definitely not.
Only as racial slur.
Here is the male poll.
I’ve never heard anyone in my social circle use it, male or female. If they did, I wouldn’t hang around them any more.
As a racial slur? None.
Well, I’m not talking only about, say, shouting it out to a person or people as racial slur.
Nvm. I’m dumb and can’t read. I don’t know any.
Not one? They don’t have to be your close friends. I had a lady sit next to me on a plane reading a news paper and said, “God damned n…, you know?”. I went to get a rental truck and the owner did the same thing talking about Obama and when he realized I was not quite agreeing with what he was so angrily pissed off about, he turned into a total asshole.
I’ve caught some male friends who voted for Obama using n-word and said, “Oh, you know I don’t really mean it…”. My thought was well over 50% (pure guesstimation based on my observations) of American whites, particularly males are simply ingrained in the usage of the word and hated towards African Americans from very long ago… almost primal. After Obama got elected I hear a whole lot more N-word, even from the people I never heard it from and that’s the fact.
White women saying it ? none . At least none while I (a Black Man) was around. 
I did have my HR rep (white woman and paramedic) say to me in confidence in my old office that she didn’t consider me Black. I was too shocked to ask her what she thought I was. Irish???!!!
:dubious: Strangers hardly equal people you know. Should I include crazy people ranting on the subway then? And even then I can’t really remember any white person talking about “niggers.”
Complete and utter bullshit.
Can I ask where did you grow up and where do you currently live? Because I grew up in New York and no white person I know has *ever *used the word “nigger” to refer to another person.
Okay… you should know.
Chicagoland
Some of my friend shocked me as they were cool hippies into environments etc way back then but as they get older some of them are getting worse… especially after Obama got in the office. I’m figuring they are showing their true color.
Immediate days after Obama got elected, I said America is finally maturing and to that I hardly got any reaction from my Chicagoan white friends… girls. No they don’t use n-word that I know of but nor were they outwardly happy about what was happening.
I have to amend my answer. I will preface this by saying my (by my personal opinion) racist maternal grandfather, who used to refer to “Japs” etc, had never even used that word. He would say “colored.”
That having been said, my paternal grandmother, who lived in a supremely rural area, and broke her hip in the early 70s and hadn’t left the house since then was in the mid-80s discussing her favorite TV shows and said “What’s that show? The one with the little nigger boy?..Webster!”
Everyone stood there mouths agape, but in retrospect she didn’t mean it in a malicious way I don’t think. She just didn’t realize that word wasn’t used anymore.
I’m not entirely discounting this. I a couple times went into the “Rants and raves” section of Craigslist and was appalled by the unbridled racism in supposedly liberal San Francisco. It’s disgusting what comes out under the cloak of anonymity.
I hate to keep posting repeatedly, but I have no problem when people are recounting a story about someone who supposedly used the word or something. I think it’s really inane when someone is saying “so the guy/gal called him a ni–er” or whatever. Nigger. He called him/her a nigger. We know it, so just say it.
For example, though I’d personally never use the word as a racial slur (and expect the same from friends), if you titled this thread “How many people do you know say ‘nigger’” it wouldn’t offend me, because people do. I don’t like it, but that’s a fact of life.
Or say a discussion of Mark Twain or something. “What do you think of his use of the n-word.”? Come on. That was how it was used at the time. It’s not scandalous to say Mark Twain’s books used the word “Nigger” because they did. That was the word however many years ago, why sugarcoat it?
But still, like I said, carrying the weight it does NOW I don’t want to hear it said about someone in a current context, if that makes any sense at all. ??? I hope you understand what I’m getting at.
In truth, before all of the OJ trial kerfuffle, I do not ever remember hearing that word at all.
Negro, yes, and some other very derogatory words which I won’t say here. Maybe I would if I knew how to do a spoiler box.
I am Brit/Canuckian, if that matters.
I don’t even remember if we read Mark Twain in school (UK) - maybe we did - I just cannot recall.
I can’t imagine why you would’ve! (He’s best known for Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, if that rings a bell.) You might know some of his pithy aphorisms though.
::Googles several Twain quotes::
Never mind.
Many, many, many fewer than men. I chose 10% but it’s probably less. I voted 40% in the men’s poll.
No. Sorry, but I just can’t say that. Not gonna happen.
For Banned Books Week, my library organized a banned books read-in, with students reading aloud from various controversial books. It was my job to go in and be the faculty member for a while. It was kind of hilarious what innocuous passages we all chose, since of course we’re all for freedom of expression but reading those expressions aloud is a different matter entirely. (Hilarious but reassuring because I had been afraid that people would expect me to say something awful out loud, and I can’t.)
Another pointless anecdote: my 11yo was reading a very old Nancy Drew yesterday, and it was older than I realized because it featured the word ‘darky.’ She was outraged and we had a little discussion about reading older books and whether it would be better to edit them. I told her that while I don’t like that language, I also don’t want to pretend that people never used it and that everything has always been nice and pretty.
But I can honestly say that I’ve never heard anyone call Obama a racial slur. I know a lot of people who can’t stand him, but they’ve never used that kind of language.