http://www.vibe.com/article/opinion-the-n-word-why-non-blacks-still-dropping-n-bombs

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As a new generation of non-blacks stays tossing N bombs like darts, intense debates on its usage rage on. Toure dissects its definition, ownership and why nigga still stings

If words were celebrities, nigga would be like Scarface in the dining room scene when he’s a rich and infamous criminal, making a scene as he yells about the hypocrisy of the genteel folks all around him. Nigga is old and powerful and infamous, a word that dominates every sentence it’s in, making the words around it cower. Some may think you can use it innocuously, that you can just toss it in a sentence like garnish atop meat, but nah, when you reach into your vocabulary and pull out nigga you’re making a choice that’s bold, aggressive, bodacious, possibly revolutionary, possibly regressive, and never less than seismic.

You may think that nigga is a different word than nigger, but if they’re separate they’re no more or less autonomous than Siamese twins. Nigga gains power from all the pain and barbed wire and bombs inside of nigger. If nigger didn’t exist, then nigga wouldn’t mean much. And without nigga, then nigger would be in a glass case in the linguistic museum in the collective consciousness. Nigga says, in part, never forget they enslaved us, lynched us, raped us, installed us as the lowest of the low][/indent][/indent]