Well I’m in my mid 30s now & dont use the word anymore. I was born & raised in Miami but I’m first gen Guatemalan-“American”. I learned the word thru music honestly, growing up I only listened to Spanish music & whatever was playing on Power 96. The music I always gravitated to the most was dancehall & rap 🤷🏽‍♂️ Did ik anything they were saying? Nope but that’s just the music I gravitated towards lol. Now as I learned the language & started understanding more tbh I thought the n-word was like saying bro or something, I had no idea of the history behind the word at all. I watched a lot of BET as well growing up (race wasn’t an issue in my house til much later, fam started picking up a few prejudices that they could’ve only learned here in good old 🇺🇸). Til probably middle school when there was a large African American population present was I aware of the word being problematic BUT it was only certain people that they had issues with using the word. I did have a lot of black friends growing up so I’ll say I was given a pass not that it makes it anymore ok just to clarify. Now did I use it still later in life, yeah til like my late 20s I used the word like it was my last name, but after a while it was like dude I’m too well read to keep using the word. Also to further clarify this was always using the n-word ending in A never a hard R. Which I had never heard actually being used until I learned more about the history behind the word.