some black people take offense at other black people saying it as well i think the reason they get a partial pass is because they are taking back a racial slur and trying to give it another meaning a bit like a woman calling another woman bitch on the other hand a white calling someone nigga is too close to nigger and there are many racist whites who do still use that term because they are racist and are saying it to be hurtful similarly when a man calls a woman a bitch its also usually considered being hurtfulcrude because men still use that term as a negative term for women