Quote Originally Posted by poop
I agree life would be better if no such concept of race existed. But it does and I use words like 'us' and 'them' linguistically as a shorthand for different groups of people. That is not racist imho.
Granted, it's hard to not use words like "us" and "them" when having this discussion, and I don't actually think you're being racist because I don't for one minute think you have prejudice against any given race.

Depends on where you drew your sample from, which just proves my point about dialects.
I think you're being disingenuous here. I think you understand fully that a majority of black people find the word offensive, regardless of who is using it. This is not an issue of dialect, this isn't a faggot/bummer discussion.