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^^ I thought your bf was a mulado (sp?) Anna? In any event, my great grandparents were the same way...they refered to blacks as "jigs" (of course, short for jigaboo). It's not really that they think of blacks that way (at least in my experience), it's just that that's what they grew up with. My dad used to tell me there was a saying him and his friends used. If you got a new shirt or something of the sort and your friends asked where you got it, your response would be "stole it off a dead nigger". Keep in mind this was the 50s and such statements didn't carry the stigma they do today. The point of this whole thread isn't the word itself, it's how it's context has been distorted by the very people it was meant to offend. Why do they use it and it's a taboo for whites? I know it seems like I post a lot of racially motivated threads...but it's because none of it makes sense to me. And an uninquisitive mind doesn't have shit to live for...so you be the judge.