yeh some of yall iz right.....white people did invent that word...now-a-days we just turned dat word into something we can use wif eachother and we dont say nigger....we say nigga....nigger is like refering to back in the day when they used that as a name against our ancestors......so when we hear a white person say dat it is just like refering us to the black people back then and dat aint coo.............