[seemoAR]

I have heard a Black woman calling a small boy the N-word in a store. I almost burst out laughing. I guess using that word to call their chilluns must be another “black thing”. {:0)

[Smokin' Joe]

"Babies" used to be a common means to refer to the children, used by their mothers and persons in authority, I recall "picaninny", too, as well as the usual "boy", "girl" or "child"--lacking the terminal 'd', phonetically. But I do not recall ever hearing a mother in those days call her own minor child a "n-----", at least not in front of whites.

To do so would have demeaned both child and mother as low class, in an age where respectability was paramount.