I'm Black and I don't use the N word but I can understand where the guy is comming from. If your surrounded by black friends who use the N word obviously u are going to think it is perfectly acceptable to use it. I think that if us a s a black race stop using it to descibe ourselves than whte people would relaize that it is not fine to use it. We need to look at the words we use to descibe our race before judging udas.