Not gonna lie, the whole N word thing, even when I hear it in rap lyrics, it makes me uncomfortable. I get it's part of rap culture to use it in their lyrics, and apparently it's ok when a black person calls another black person that, where the intent behind the word being totally different than it being a racial slur. But it just blurs the line with the word, and it can cause confusion among people who aren't black who think all of sudden, there's times when it's ok to use the word.
Not saying it's ok for Peters to say what he said, and not saying I know what his intent was when using the word. But lets just say for the sake of argument he was using the word the same way he would use to describe country music as "hillbilly effing music", all of a sudden, it loses part to of the negative racial tone.
Just my opinion anyways. To be safe, I just never use the word at all. But I do get times where the word gets used and it wasn't intended to be a racial slur. (again, not saying that's the case with Peters here).
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