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Some black people can be seen having great discontent over other black people using the word. Ken Carter in the movie Coach Carter forced his students to address each other in a respectful manner, dropping their then-usual "nigga", because the word shackles them again, makes them slaves, and Coach Carter believed they weren't slaves, so they shouldn't speak of themselves as such.Black people addressing each other in this way perhaps consider it acknowledgment of a shared heritage and contemporary struggle against the very real relics of that history.