Are you not repeating the same thing I said earlier? Obviously GP didn't mean to be offensive, she was using it because she was referring to a song. If a white person is saying it in the friendly way that african americans use it to reference each other and so often use in the music white people buy, I don't see the big deal. I really don't. You can tell the difference when someone is saying something out of hatred and when they're casually using the word in another way. I'm not going to pretend I think that Gweneth was somehow being hateful or a racist just because others wanna keep pretending. Lol @ Kayne giving white people "permission" to use the word at his concerts for a couple of hours like he is in some sort of authority over every black person's feelings (they're not allowed to be offended for a couple of hours I guess if its sooooo offensive to hear a white person utter the word) and in authority over white people's vocabulary/speech. Lol, okay.
That being said, I wasn't raised to be racist and it wasn't cool to be offensive in my house. I couldn't say the word crap or barf. I would be cussing, and cussing WAS NOT ALLOWED. I wasn't allowed to use the word fart because it wasn't something a young lady should say. Saying "Oh my God" was a sin. Do you think I was taught to use THAT word? Lol, no.
I don't use the word because its not in my vocabulary or thoughts. Or my music.

I don't speak like that because I was taught it was a crude, offensive and hateful word but you can't move the boundaries around and expect people to know where the line is, or keep expecting people to respect it.