Quote from: Uzi on November 26, 2017, 03:07:09 PM
I think it depends on your experiences too.
like I know yall girls in New York and other places go by proximity and aren't bothered hearing the N Word by certain people sometimes because alot of the time the context matches what you're used too.
In high school I didn't care who said the N word because I viewed it as a term of endearment, but I also lived in a majority black town and went to a majority black school. It wasn't until my freshmen year of college in Mississippi and hearing multiple white people use Nigga/Nigger interchangeably and in extremely offensive ways that my perception changed and I'm like nah white people can't ever say it cause I don't trust them with the word anymore. 
It's mainly hispanic people that use it with no problem here.
Being from NYC (
) , I just have an eye and ear for them so I automatically knew Cardi was Latina from the Bronx but, a lot of people here thought Cardi was African American. I think that's why its comfortable - many of them not only experience the same struggles of the hood but they look like us as well.
Fat Joe could easily walk in the hood and tell the gorls he's a light skinned African American man and no one even would question it.
It's really their culture/history that separates them as Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc. And some genetics/bloodlines are definitely different as well but there are plenty who could "pass" as Black or "mixed" if they wanted to.
They look like people of color.
