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I live in very rural Georgia, my 10 year old daughter's best friend is a black girl in her class. She loves that movie White Chicks (the TV formatted version). Typical of her age, she is mimicking the funny parts and starts saying "Get away from me Arnold Schwarzanigger", just like Damon or whoever Wayons did on the movie. I tried to explain to my daughter why it wasn't 'funny' when she said it. She did NOT understand why it was funny when a black person said it, but not her. She has not been around for all the racism/civil rights movement over the past 40 years so she doesn't understand prior prejudices. To her, she knows she doesn't hate black people (she's spent many many weekends with her friend and her family) and she knows the black person said it and was supposed to funny. She also knows she wouldn't say anything in a 'mean way'. I don't know how to explain it except that it is just the way it is. But I didn't want her to go to her friend's house and say it not intentionally and make herself look bad even though she didn't understand what she would have done wrong.