There's some really racist girls at the train station right now

I just said context matters. I'm not ignoring the fact that because it didn't effect me that it's just not going to effect someone else because that's not the case whatsoever. Don't you think I was bullied to? I was bullied growing up because I was half lack and white, to kids it was 'weird' and wasn't normalized like how it is today. It's not normalized around the world, I realize that. But if this person posting is not black and this black guy does not care about those girls saying it then this person really doesn't have a right to even comment on it. They're not black and it's not hurting anyone then why make those girls feel like they're don't something wrong at the moment?

If we teach this generation or the next and the next that context matters then there will be no problem. Yes, saying the "n word" had social repercussions and it's damaging to some BLACK people because of their background and their own world but it should not move anyone that isn't black.

If you have no trace to that word, I will say it again, if you aren't not black you should not be effected by that word. It does not come from your background or anyone else's (who aren't black.) By all means, you aren't wrong, all I said was my personal expierence with the word and the background I had with it. Context matters and if the guy looks like he could care less then it doesn't matter.

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