I personally have been called many things in my life time and this is one of them. It didn't make since to me why I was called it as they were trying to insult me and I was not insulted.
So, you ask why was I not insulted, because the "N" word means that I am crafty and able to fix issues temporarily until a better solution can be found. My Dad and Mother both have family roots in Ireland and the Irish have been called Niggers in the past. My Dad used the word Nigger when he would say he would nigger rig it. Fix it temporarily until we got off the farm and back to the city where he could fix it right. This is that Irish heritage that takes intelligences and knowledge to do. I have found that poor people including many black or African American people, which ever you grow up with, are also intellectuals in this arena. So, even if the person means it as a insult I never hear it more than once since It don't get the response they are looking for.. I feel in good company with my Black Friends. I do wish we as American's would stop dividing us up into race, creeds or cultures. We the people are all American Mute there are very few of us that are one race, creed or from one culture.
So, yes I will forgive Paul Dean for the "N" word. She is human and I would hope that if I made a mistake, My fans and fellow citizens would forgive me. Cheers to the forgiving people of the world I hope they rule the world.
I won't be Buying from Home Depot or Sears or Target in the never future they don't seem to be forgiving.
Here is the definition of the word, excuse my French, Nigger.
Word Origin & History nigger
1786, earlier neger (1568, Scot. and northern England dialect), from
Fr. nègre, from Sp. negro (see Negro). From the earliest usage it was "the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks" [cited in Gowers, 1965]. But as black inferiority was at one time a near universal
assumption in Eng.-speaking lands, the word in some cases could be used without deliberate insult.
Usage note
The term nigger is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. The senses labeled Extremely Disparaging and Offensive represent meanings that are deeply insulting and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense.
It is so profoundly offensive that a euphemism has developed for those occasions when
the word itself must be discussed, as in court or in a newspaper editorial: “the
n-word.” Despite this, the sense referring to a “black person” is sometimes
used among African Americans in a neutral or familiar way. The sense referring to other victims of prejudice, especially when used descriptively, as to denounce that prejudice, is not normally considered disparaging—as in “The Irish are the niggers of Europe” from Roddy Doyle's The Commitments but the other uses are
considered contemptuous and hostile.