My culture is not a trend

So my new friend had a blog on his page regarding the use of the word nigga by people who aren't black. He had a good point and it got me thinking so here's what I said to him. "I feel that. Did u see the episode of The Real World San Diego. People were coming out of the wood works saying "I use the N-Word all the time" and they were not black. It's ridiculous how uneducated people are. But what dissappoints me is not so much the use of the word but the fact that nobody has ever taken the time to tell somebody who uses that word unnecessarily that they are wrong and why they are wrong. I've been on both sides where I will use the word in a sort of defiance of what it used to be or I won't use the word at all because of where it comes from. But I feel and have always felt strongly as a black woman that I can make that choice. Not a lot of people know that the word cracker a term I often heard growing up, came from the slave owner cracking the whip on the backs of his slaves. So I wonder if white people today realize that when that term is used it should hurt. It should be derogatory. They should feel ... something. Maybe when slavery is finally over we can start [to] address these situations. I don't mean writing a law or an amendment. I mean education. Our children aren't being taught tolerance in school and on TV. They're being taught to fear each other so how do we as young people work to transform that fear into something constructive?"