I don't use it.
I don't think it's anyone beside black people's place to say who can say it or not. but personally think it's corny when non-black people go hard trying to justify why they can say it. And there's no need for them to use it excessively just because they can get away with it, like the guy in question is doing. It's like he uses it as a filler for his generic ass bars
I'm caught in this middle area with it again. This 45-year old white lady at work threw it out last week while her, me, and a 23-year old white girl were talking, and it startled and angered me. When I asked her why she thought it was okay to use it in my presence, she got mad at me for being offended, claiming she didn't know it would offend people and she's with a black man and she lives in a "black house" and she didn't say the "er" and a bunch of stupid rationalizations around it...
Pissed me off and the 23-year old white chick, who says she doesn't use it (and I never heard her use it, but also never heard the 45 year old use it previously either), 23 year old started defending her...
Part of their defense is the dilemma I have, it offended me, but they are so used to black people not only using it in convo with them, but referring to them and other white people as "nikkas", and the double standard many blacks obliviously apply in allowing non-black to use it freely as long as they aren't white...
That argument makes sense, and I've long told myself the word itself was created by White America, and long before hip hop was a thing, whites used it freely around blacks in the South, even in friendly relationships; it wasn't always weaponized from whites to blacks...
So with that knowledge and knowing what it is today, that the word has basically been relegated as just another word, is discomforting to me. I've never been okay with white people using it freely, but it basically is another word today and people treat it as such. Despite the historic connotation of it, it's just like "bytch" or "chump" or "fakkit" in the majority of America now. Blacks as a community never set a consistent boundary behind it, and at any rate the word wasn't censored at all pre the 50s (Civil Rights era), which wasn't that long ago...
So I wrestle with myself why it can have insulting power to me. I've actually been called the n-word maliciously by white dudes before, and it didn't make as mad as the few times I've gotten upset by whites using it around me, the same way blacks use it with each other...
I'm mostly live and let live, and have to non-blacks that just because they can use it in their social circle, the country is much larger than their tiny bubble and it may not pass favorably with other blacks, so monitor their usage, and I've easily told some non-blacks to chill on its usage around me in a nonconfrontational manner...
But this was the first time in a good while I've directly had someone white use it around me and it bothered me...
Lmao for real bro, I'm not buying the guy he claims is his dad, is his dad. That dude is most definitely a white boy and it's funny how he leans on his supposed "blackness" when it's clear to anybody that there isn't a single thing black about him. Like literally nothing...
Far as I'm concerned he's another white rapper, and he's an industry experiment that has been effective in filtering acceptance of white people using it because I dont think anybody really looks at or hears Logic and thinks, "black rapper" or "black man"...
They pushed his corny ass on the masses and if it's okay for him to say it, it's okay for anyone else...
He don't even sound like a brother, nothing about his speech or his rapping sounds black...
So we need his mom's stats because i dont know if his "dad" is really HIS dad...
