saying the "n" word is not racist...its nothing more than a word....
Then why don’t you just use it? It’s kind of like Honky or Peckerwood or White Devil. It’s just a word; actually derived from the Spanish Negrito or Negro, meaning black. Because most (not all) slave holders were from the Southern United States and have their regional dialects and accents the word was corrupted to nigra or nigger, shorter to say and easier to pronounce.
Mix in a basically illiterate population (1500’s-1800’s) and a little bit of Creole and you get a lot of words that people continue to use even today.
The only time any word, even cuss words and profanity are unacceptable is when they are used to denigrate or insult another human being.
I am what you would call a white man (actually kind of a brownish pink) of northern European stock, and I have been called nigger on many occasions by my black friends. They don’t mean it as an insult and I don’t take it as one.
People need to get over the fear of words in common usage, political correctness can not be allowed to determine what is a distinctly American language.
By my brown friends from the southern areas I have been called Gavacho (not sure of the spelling, I don’t speak Central American); normally it is used as an insult, it means white guy more or less kind of like gringo. Who uses the word, and how the word is used is the only important thing.