Using the "N" Word, Politically Correctly

MY FEAR OF THE "N" word is so great that not only can I not say it, I cannot type it. It will not come out of my mind and onto the computer screen. The last time I remember saying it, was in a game of poker in my early twenties, decades ago, and one of the players was black. I blurted it out after getting a bad draw, and had no idea why at the time. My black friend's eyes got big. It always seems strange to be in the company of happy, robust african-amreican men, and hear them all calling each other the N word. Over and over again they say it,and they obviously mean no harm by it. Its all in good fun for them - but not for me. I sit there and cringe. Perhaps I am a victim of politicial correctness run amok. Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal make no bones about it; they will say the N world anytime, any damned time they want to, and they sure as hell won't let a bunch of honkies make them stop. Their ancestors were forced to adopt this language, and they will use their own words any way they want to, including the "N" word! They made that clear, perfectly. The ShaQ also made it clear that when african americans use the N word, they do so in a positive way. Its hard to argue with that. Then, along come conservative whities, screaming that political correctness is a sickness of liberal white people, not conservative white people. The word police come from the left, trying to truncate our first amendment right to free speech. So, perhaps the N wording african american community and the tea party have made common cause; the destruction of meddling, word policing liberalism. Are all you conservative crackers ready to get rid of political correctness entirely?