LogFAQs > #894891714

In a "professional" setting like a school or a workplace, nobody, black or white, mixed or pure, friends or enemies, should be able to say it. Yes, the connotations of black people saying it is often different from white or mixed people saying it, and it's all about context, but if the school says "Don't say it", then you don't say it.

Now, if the school is aware of blacks saying it to other blacks, then it's straight-up discrimination.

In addition, this is not "racist", but "using a word people may find highly offensive". Aussies drop the C-bomb all the fucking time but in the states they would get a lot of glares for it. Context and setting is everything.

The idea of "N-Word Privileges" is a myth and a toxic idea, I'm sure many a black man has been told off by other black people for saying it, and I'm sure plenty of white guys have said "N- please." to other white guys. I've said to my Arab friends "How's it going you paki bastards?" as a joke many a time and we all laugh at it, but if I said that to literally anyone else I would get my arse handed to me.

Permanent suspension however is completely unacceptable, talk to the kid about context and setting, and to not say it within earshot of the school. How much you betting that pulling that school's discipline records would show people getting less punishment for actual crimes like extortion, vandalism, and theft?
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