I can't believe the number of times I hear "nigger" as acceptable conversation when I visit New York.

I overheard a conversation a few years ago that floored me by it's absurdity. Someone was talking about somtehing that happened to them at work. He said "...and this big, fat, piece of shit nigger broad..". A woman sitting with him said "don't say broad". I went into convulsions laughing, nobody could figure out what I found so funny.