look in my household i am in the presence of my step-dad who is black and he does not use the n word. I dont use the word around anybodys presence and especially if my step-dads. If your friends that are black let you use it use it around them, but no one else. If you keep usin that word u got slip up and get ya ass left in the gutta. Correct me if im wrong, but didnt the word cracker come from mecicans, but really theres practically a degrading word for every race. 1