And just because the LA Times used it, does not make it right for you to use it. Frankly, it could be argued that the LA Times’s prior usage is just an excuse for the writer on this forum to us it; to “get away” with using a slur.
I don’t know— I rather think you are being uppity because you think we should know all of the terms/English words that have now been stolen from our language to mean slurs in ebonics.