I was the side judge in my sons soccer game this evening. One family watching it's son started calling out to him and then one of the family members started yelling "Go Nig**er! Run Nig**er"- and everyone around them heard this. The "crowd" was scare- no much more than say 60 people. I turned around and told them (with an outside voice) in no uncertain terms that using the " "N" word " was unacceptable in public. (The family was dark skinned Hispanics.One member was very dark- most were medium, two were lighter skinned.) I told them I was very offended with the term even if they were not. One person in the family appeared to want to make an argument about what I said but did not do so. I kinda knew one of the family members- he was the one who attended practices- the child was on my team. When the game was over I fist bumped with the member I knew and all seemed fine, at least with him. The others gave a me a stink eye.

Was I out of line? Do you think dark skinned people can use the term in public but not light skinned people? Can a light skinned person tell a dark skinned person to not use the term in public?