I just tried a small and admittedly non-scientific experiment...
I walked around the house repeating "THE N WORD" over and over. You know.. nigger, nigger nigger, nigger nigger, nigger... (wife is thinking I have really gone over the edge, down the cliff, across the creek and into the woods this time) and GUESS WHAT HAPPENED??
nothing.
No lightening from the sky, no plague of locus, the sea did not part, the ground did not split open and swallow me up, the neighbors did not riot, the TV is still on, the cat is still sleeping in the chair, the moon did not turn red and Michael Jackson can STILL DANCE!
AMAZZZZZZZZZING !