I'm a black guy and I don't play online with strangers not just because of the racist comments but because of the constant immature comments and behavior. Online play is great, but when people are not in front of other people they tend to act like they can spout anything especialy if it's offensive "just to get a reaction". To me this is stupid and useless. Being online with other people IS being in public, but they wouldn't do or say half of what they do online if they were in a real public area of fear of the consequences.
As for the word "nigger", I don't call my black friends nigger/nigga nor do I want them to call me that way. Of course it's a color in italian and in spanish (negro) but with time it became a pejorative word towards black people everybody knows that. I don't pay attention to those who use the word or try to get my attention as I believe that the less attention you give to something the less relevant it becomes.
Racism is everywhere where people in the majority need to accept different people. Go to an all black area and see how some of them talk about white people and vice versa. Same thing happens with asians, chinese agains't phillipinos, japanese agains't chinese/koreans. The same happens in South America brazilians agains't people from Chile... and so on and so on.
A latino friend of mine used to say: "In the future I will eradicate all racism, how? I will get all women in the world pregnant so in a generation or two everyone will be a latino!"
yeah man.
