Why there should be exemptions to people saying the N word People should be allowed to say the N-word: y We dont

live in the same times as back then. The word has developed a whole new meaning. o This generation has not had the same experience with the word as people from the previous generations had.  We were not around the time so in a way we disarmed the negative impact the word Who are we to decide who can or cannot say a word just because another does not approve? o What right does anyone have to take away someones freedom of speech? o Any one can make any word offensive just by the emotion that is used behind a word. That can not be controlled no matter what anyone tries to do. Nigga is just another word that whites came up with and decided to put hatred behind it. Have you ever thought that maybe todays culture is trying to take that word and try to change its meaning to something more endearing?  Shown when Mr. Tupac Shakur created the acronym for NIGGA, which stands for never ignorant getting goals accomplished. o Take out the hate and without background knowledge its just another neutral word. Thats it. It is the context that makes all the difference. o Linguists would tell you, a derivative of the Latin word for the color black. How can you stop people from saying it when it is on rap songs? It influences people and may even to some extent bring unity to todays teenage group. White people want to be a part of something and the n word may be able to bring that type of unity and allow the person into the in group (perception, unity, raps songs are in). The word provides a way for todays youth to be a part of something bigger and thing that youths My opponent would say that historically, Nigga is derived from nigger a word White people used to put a black person in his place as someone inferior to a white person (no matter the social status of that white person), an inferiority upheld by the law, that sustained a culture where two white men could smash the head of a 14 year old AfricanAmerican before shooting him in the head, tying a barbwire around his neck and dumping his body in a riverfor whistling at a 21 year old white girl. That the word nigger was used to remind black people of this powerlessness in American society. To say this is maddening has got to be the understatement of the past five centuries. But I argue that nigga on the other hand is a new and different word. Whereas nigger is always bad, nigga can be good or bad; Nigga can be ignorant and stupid; nigga can be excellent and gifted. .

Also as Joavenie stated when you picture nigger and nigga in your mind=d the picture changes they dont stay the same =. So therefore why is so much emphasis put on that one word when it does not even have the same meaning as the word it was derived from? Even then who says that Nigga has to be a black person word? Although it derives from the word which means black the meaning can be entirely different. Even blacks on some occasion are shown to use the word to show a term of bonding towards his closest friend regardless of their race. Just because another person of a different race uses the word, that doesnt mean that they are racist. It may just be another way to refer a person as black in a non-threatening way just as someone refers to someone as African-American, black, etc. In addition what about Latin Americans, Asians, etc. Why cant they be allowed to say the word nigga when they are not historically connected to the word? Who says that when someone who is not black or white uses it then they are being racist maybe they are just copying todays society and trying to imitate that group.

Conclusion
In the end there should be some exemptions but in way if a word is offending someone then although the freedom of speech method does apply it should not be the case if the word is hurting someone else. The fact that words do not hurt someone is extremely false. No matter how many times one tries to convince him insults do hurt and rather than retaliate and/or offend the person back it is that persons responsibility to choose exactly how he/she is going to react to the situation.