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Maybe this has to do with my father's influence over my life and my upbringing but I never used it. Any version of it. I know it is simple street slang but at this point, I just view it as an insult. The soft a is different than the hard r but they come from the same family. That family is the white man's slave trade system. I want no part in it. I feel like this is part of the "thug" mentality that was pushed on us through the music industry. Like to me, seeing black men and women refer to each other as "niggas" doesn't feel empowering, it feels degrading and I think we as a collective need to move away from it. It just gives other races power over us and I am sick of that. That is just my opinion of it though. I know that won't change anything and people will do whatever the hell they want.