A word used by ignorant
white people to offend
Black people inadvertantly (because sometimes they are just grasping at straws for a reason to feel oppressed, not all the time, just sometimes) because the
white person really didn't know what it meant and just happened to ask her black friend, because she also happens to be her coolest friend, the one most familiar with slang. I would have asked a person of any race were that person better connected than Gaia with american vernacular, but she is the best I know.