Good attention grabber huh? Don't worry, I don't use it and I'm not trying to say I should.
I recently hung out with my neighbors. They really wanted to smoke me out. I'm 32 living in what is essentially off campus student apartments. 4 bed 4 bath, etc.
They're all Hispanic in this apartment (above me). 2 are from South America - I forget which country - and 2 are from South Florida.
They throw around the N word, never pejoratively. As the only white guy in the room I'm not saying shit.
Question is, is this okay? As a white guy idk.
One of them also said the f slur for gay people and immediately apologized - 'sorry if that offended you '. That one I did tell him he knew it was wrong because he apologized immediately. I have a love always wins bracelet and a rainbow lanyard, very visible.
I'm 10+ years older than these kids. I'm honestly trying to figure out if this is baked-in or if they're just dumb kids and maybe I can be a positive influence. If it's baked-in then I'll just peace out. I don't know the culture and don't want to judge from an uninformed perspective.
"hispanic" people can be extremely racist against "afro" people. And I'm talking examples of everyone being local, I mean, for example, ecuadorian "hispanic" people can be extremely racist agains ecuadorian "afro" people.
also its south florida, antiblack racism is a fine art down there.
Thank you and everyone else for your replies. Glad to be informed by people who have some skin in the game, so to speak. I'll try to be a good example, at least, if they want to hang out more.
I do also want to reinforce that at no point was it used negatively. They were calling each other that and shit. I remember the white kids in school that used to do that and even then thought it was cringe as fuck.
