# What percentage of non-black women you know use "n-word"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369 "2011-11-09T05:18:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369/21 "2011-11-09T17:00:07Z")
The only time I’ve used it is when I’m repeating something else, like when I was telling my colleagues at work about a case I had where a black kid was charged with disorderly conduct for calling a white cop “Nigga.” ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369/22 "2011-11-09T17:28:45Z")
Nope, never to my recollection. And I’ve lived both in Chicago and in the South. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369/23 "2011-11-09T22:32:08Z")
None. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369/24 "2011-11-12T05:37:05Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Not one? They don’t have to be your close friends. None that I can recall, and FWIW I live in a part of the country where I see Confederate battle flag bumper stickers, etc., on a fairly regular basis. I don’t think I even know any black women who use this word casually; one friend of mine in college wouldn’t even say it when quoting other people, she would say “N”. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369/25 "2011-11-12T07:32:40Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > 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. Hey, I’m a Brit and I did Huckleberry Finn at school! We may be English-English lit centric, but we’re not THAT bad. To the OP, I never hear the word nigger, from white women or men, in my circles in the UK, which are admittedly pretty polite and middle class, but I also don’t think it has ever been a word used regularly here, apart from maybe black kids trying to be urban cool. And **voguevixen** , I agree with you that in a polite, moderated adult forum such as the Dope, I don’t see the need to disguise the word in text. It’s one of the reasons I like The Guardian newspaper, a paper that treats it’s readership as grown-ups and prints swear words in full if they are relevant. The only time I can recall a white woman use the word to my face was from a waitress in Las Vegas who dropped it so casually into conversation, myself and my companions were stunned to silence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-non-black-women-you-know-use-n-word/602369.md?page=1)