[ResisTyr]

My dad would refer to blacks as "colored" & he didn't have a racist bone in his body. It's my opinion that all this "word policing" nowadays is pretty ridiculous. With all due respect, why do young blacks refer to each as the "N" word, but it's almost thought to be criminal, shoukd anyone else utter that word White people don't go around calling each ither "Crackers," so why do blacks "N" with each other? Is it meant to be demeaning, offensive or endearing. Just curious. 😉

[Windflier]

My dad would refer to blacks as "colored" & he didn't have a racist bone in his body.

I believe you. We once called ourselves 'colored', as well, but the term is long out of favor.

...why do young blacks refer to each as the "N" word, but it's almost thought to be criminal, shoukd anyone else utter that word

It's kind of a case of 'when life hands you lemons...'. Blacks turned the term around to make fun of each other, but it still stung when whites used it.

For the record, most blacks seldom, if ever, use the word.

[nopardons]

It’s a THUG/ghetto/RAP thing and was NEVER done/said, by blacks, in most of the 20th century.