the clarkson debate

[rustyrider]

Nigger is just a colloquial of negro...is that racist ??

Yes it is a racist term.  It is a 'white man's' term for a person of African descent, it is a word strongly associated, historically, with discrimination, slavery, torture right through to mass murder and genocide.

Bollocks.  If that was the case it wouldn't be commonplace for people of African origin to refer to each of by the term.  It is only considered racist by the white pc brigade and not by those that it is supposed to be insulting to.  Neither of the two black guys I work with (one is Afro-Caribbean, the other from Ghana) consider it to be derogatory and will use it to describe each other.  But heaven help me if anyone overheard me use it.....