[SmokingJoe]

Almost all N word usage in public is by African Americans.

[asinclair]

I wonder to which of the C-words this article refers. Google search brings up three possibilities. (I would hazard a guess it's a reference to lady parts, given context, but a reference to a man's sexual member is a close second.)

[No name given]

True.

[pepsionice]

Back in the early 1980s...I noticed the use by black comedians, and thinking....this is going to become a regular thing. After 2008....yeah, it was rock-solid in terms of daily use now.

[glennaro]

Except negroes would argue that "nigga" is not the "n-word" (unless, of course, said by someone who is not a negro). Then again, perhaps I'm getting all these "n-words" mixed up.

What I'm not confused about is that when I was growing up in Baltimore during the late-50s through the 1960s, if you called a negro "black" you were literally asking to be punched in the face: "Who you callin' 'black', honkie?!" POW!!

[Vaduz]

Indeed and has been for years black comedians have it as part of their acts as well as any bad word you can call a woman.

And the RAP so called music sounds like a training session for the younger ones.

And they wonder why the don’t get any respect. DUH