Ain’t it amazin’? My great grandfather was a confederate soldier, my father was born in ‘13 and as a boy he knew my great grandfather. My dad used to talk about gatherings of confederate veterans when he was a child, he would use the “n word” regularly and often but had he seen me mistreat a black person he would have been far more likely to kick my tail than if he saw me do the same thing to a white person. I never saw him be anything but kind and respectful to black people and my mother was the same.
The so called “n” word is simply the Southern pronunciation of N-E-G-R-O. When it came to be an evil vile unPC word as defined by northerners who have a different accent many southerners forced their mouths to form knee-grow but then that, too, became ldefinitively un-PC and racist and we had to say African-American, then Black. Each word becomes derogatory by northern definition because southerners speak it. Anything a southerner says is, by the fact of him saying it, derogatory and racist. And that applies to anything spoken by Christians, also, or more and more by white men who are not certified as PC.