drinking has lots of benifts...
I see what you're saying but the difference is that noone was yelling "cracker" or "honkey" as a MOB of minorities were stringing up a white guy...
It's just got too much history...
White people find cracker etc funny because it's just a word and has no implications...
Black people don't like nigger because it's NOT just a word and there are MILLIONS of implications...
It belittles the person in a way a white man will NEVER understand...
It all depends on how it's being used... but overall it's just not an acceptable term IMO.
And white people have NO rights to ***** about it IMO either... we've got just about everything else... at least show some respect in your vocabulary.