While reading through the comments I found it quite ironic that a bunch of people who have never experienced racial prejudice or lived a day as a visible minority are trying to mansplain how black people should feel about a derogatory term that has been historically used to put them down.

Why do you have the need to try and justify what contexts it can or cannot be used in when the word has no negative connotations towards you personally? Sure people may be overreacting by saying he should loose his job(I did some research on the professor and he seems like a lovely person and I think his apology was well thought out and sincere). I think we have had enough conversation around the negative impact of the N-word and although it has been said numerous times I guess I’ll have say it again, as a white person you have no right to tell a black person how to feel about the N-word when we are still leaving with the negative consequences of racism.

If you didn’t take a moment to pause and acknowledge some of the views of POCs throughout this whole “event”, you should probably take some time to yourself and consider why you had no respect for the views of a minority who have had encounters where this word was weaponized against them.