[Serious] Singing the N-word

[Phaedrus]

The choice to incorporate the word into a conversation is an entirely different matter.

However, when an artist chooses to make the word a part of his song, you cannot expect white people to not sing along with the lyrics and refrain from using the word when it pops up. Unless you want to include for blacks only as part of the record label.

[Paleophyte]

However, when an artist chooses to make the word a part of his song, you cannot expect white people to not sing along with the lyrics and refrain from using the word when it pops up.

I can and I do.

[Cavebear]

However, when an artist chooses to make the word a part of his song, you cannot expect white people to not sing along with the lyrics and refrain from using the word when it pops up.

I can and I do.

Words are not owned by groups.

[TooHuman]

Dude where do you sit on the Darkins scale?

 
Clarification

I don’t look white enough to have what some people like to call white privilege. A history of African slavery and colonization by Europeans has resulted in different situations where white privilege (less discrimination) is a cultural circumstance for “brown” people in the USA, Latin America, North Africa, and India that look more Caucasian. I look black or ethnic enough to know what it’s like to experience racial or ethnic discrimination, e.g. (stopped by the police for walking or driving while black or brown). In the USA that seems to be an unwritten rule or prerequisite for being allowed to use the n word in a casual way that isn’t hateful.

And that’s where I have a problem. It’s already been said, that groups don’t own words, and blacks shouldn’t use the word if they don’t want other people to use it. There are also no clear ethical rules for people that aren’t white. What percentage of cultural or genetic “blackness” does a person need to be granted permission to use the word? Does my Jamaican grandmother (Chinese / Sub-Saharan African) get to use the word even though she looks like a person from South East Asia? These are the silly questions that exists in a world where some people are imprisoned by the word.