The so called “n” word is simply the Southern pronunciation of N-E-G-R-O. When it came to be an evil vile unPC word as defined by northerners who have a different accent many southerners forced their mouths to form knee-grow but then that, too, became ldefinitively un-PC and racist and we had to say African-American, then Black. Each word becomes derogatory by northern definition because southerners speak it. Anything a southerner says is, by the fact of him saying it, derogatory and racist. And that applies to anything spoken by Christians, also, or more and more by white men who are not certified as PC.
I have long thought that the New York and North Eastern elite social circles (the prime movers in the USA) are still fighting the Civil War. It's as if they keep trying to convince themselves that their ancestors invading other people and forcing them under their rule was the right thing to do.
It's like a liar that keeps lying to himself in the hopes that he will eventually believe what he wishes to believe.