Do black people teach their kids about the word "nigger" as soon as they know that their kids are able to understand words, or something like that?
The kid that Shiloh Hendrix called that is supposedly 5 years old, but I had never heard or seen that word until I was around 9. I heard a kid in my class at school say it, one day, and when I asked him what that was, he basically just described a black person to me, and said nothing about anyone being offended by it. So, back then, I didn't know that it was a type of insult. It wasn't until later that year that I would get scolded and told it was an offensive word, after I drew a picture of a stereotypical black guy with his shirt tied in a knot at chest-level, with the words, "Gay Nigger," above his head.