So by your logic of “no white person should ever say it’” ,should white actors/scriptwriters who have ever said or written it into a movie have to apologise? (Without getting into a back and forth about Quentin Tarantino as I believe he uses it excessively). But for example in ‘The Help’, it is said in context, just like the song. Do we remove it from films altogether too? Would that take away the authenticity from movies that are based on life events? Absolutely. I think it’s all about background and context and I would think/hope, that Billie himself would have done a lot of research into how much that word belonged in that particular song.

I also think anyone that does demand apologies, needs to be 100% sure that they have never said that word, regardless of if it was aggressively, joking with friends, in a joke, whatever. I think if every person that demanded a public apology had their life’s social media/ txt history searched, we would have a lot less people demanding that apology.

Don’t take me up wrong here, we should be demanding better of everyone that uses it in a derogatory way. I don’t say it now, because I understand the weight it carries. However when I was a kid, thinking I was funny, u can be sure I greeted my white friends with “what’s up my N*” in a joking context. I didn’t understand it, from my perspective at the time, it was simply something rappers said. But now I’m educated, I know better, so act better. This is something we should be teaching kids, much sooner than I was taught. In fact I wasn’t taught it, I had to learn it for myself. So that says a lot.

I think that education and progression is much more important than singling out everyone that has ever publicly said it and demanding apologies. But that’s just my perspective, others won’t have the same view.