The thing that bothers me about people trying to make nigga the ubiquitous and innocuous version of "this guy" is that non-blacks could easily use their own group's racial/ethnic slurs. Why ride black people's reclamation bandwagon when you could create your own. She could have said, "this guy", which is exactly what…

I don't really believe it and I can't quite put my finger on why. I guess because, while he had a successful career, he was out of the public eye so it seemed like everything was going okay- no tabloid stories, controversies, etc.