The following needs a minor edit under Usage in popular culture Michael Richards used the word nigger against a heckler during his stand up comedy routine 24 Dog the Bounty Hunter used the word in reference to his son s girlfriend 25 It should read Michael Richards used the word nigger against a heckler during his stand up comedy routine 24 Dog the Bounty Hunter used the word in reference to his son s girlfriend 25 Basically remove with Of course if necessary further explanations of these two incidents can be added as well to explain the circumstances But not required Thank you Done thanks for pointing that out Chequers As a result of Dog his show was cancelled but later renewed If it s of importance to the current already vague statement Both received national attention Appreciate it Dog the Bounty Hunter used the word in reference to his son s girlfriend 25 This sentence is sort of generic I realize Dog is popular or otherwise this wouldn t be worth mentioning allot of people use the word in songs movies shows in private etc but adding which became public and caused Dog to lose his show temporarily to the end of the sentence would make more sense and give it more stability Let me know your thoughts or just kindly make the change thanks Hello in Spain this word es negrata Shouldn t this be moved over the Wiktionary I don t understand why there is an article for this word but not for many others There are articles for many other terms Especially the fact this has a lot of encylopedic content it s a controversial word Definately needs to be here Moved from comments subpage Pulp Fiction In Quentin Tarantino s film Pulp Fiction there are uses of the word by both black and white characters In one instance Tarantino playing the character Jimmie asks a bloodied Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta if they saw a sign on the outside of his house that said Dead Nigger Storage because they had brought a dead black man to his house in their car He sardonically reminds the hitmen that they did not see such a sign because storing dead niggers was not his business I believe it is also worthy of mention that nigger is also used in reference to white characters Butch and Vincent Vega and Jimmy indirectly by Marcellus Wallace Hey Sweet Whassup bro It s timee for Smoke The Johnson brothers will take that fat ass fool Yeah my nigga you are my running dog part of conversations between Sweet and Carl Johnson two very known niggaz from the GTA San Andreas missions End Of The Line and The Green Sabre MOS guidelines on using this word in other articles Are there any style policies or guidelines regarding the use of this word in Wikipedia articles in general I attempted to euphemize a reference to this word in a quotation from Muhammad Ali in the Conscientious objector article but I was reverted I felt and still feel that words generally considered to be offensive such as this word should not be used in Wikipedia articles without a good reason but I looked in WP MOS just now and couldn t find anything on this subject Any thoughts You shouldn t censor euphemise quotes The relevant guidelines are WP PROFANE and WP NOT CENSORED The latter says that In pa