Sticks and stones........
It's just a damn word. The only power it has is the power you give it and those that are offended by it have a serious inferiority complex.
It not JUST a word. Word hurt. What if you heard someone refer to you mother as a ***** would it still be just a word? I suppose your mother would not be offended or she would have an inferiority complex? There are a lot of hurtful words and they are not alway racist.
If you were a black man and a white man in anger called you a N**** you would not feel that it was just a damn word. I believe it is the most hurtful word in the world and anyone, no matter what race, should be offended when they here it. I am native ameircan and I heard the word once and I went balistic on the black woman that was using it.
I recently heard an old man refer to the woman's private parts as the p**** and I was offended and I let him know it when other women in his present laughed. The N word is an offensive word it offends me to hear it by any race.