If you say "nigger" in the forest, can anyone hear it?

Surely one of the stupidest "advancements" of the human race is the practice of saying "the N-word" instead of "nigger." If it means the same thing, why is it better, or even acceptable? I am betting that some people who are reading this post are SHOCKED that I dared to write "nigger," as if by doing so I have declared that slavery is a good thing, black people are no better than dogs, I wave the Confederate flag and have a wardrobe of hooded white sheets hanging in my closet.

Last April, a white Cincinnati police officer angrily shouted "the N-word" in the privacy of her patrol car after a black man in a crowd of people flipped her the middle finger, essentially saying to her, "Fuck you!" She was pissed off that the crowd was blocking traffic. Following a months-long investigation, and God knows what that entailed and why it took three months, she is now off the streets and siting behind a desk awaiting further punishment for her private little outburst caught on her body camera. 

The city's mayor said, "Black Cincinnatians deserve to feel safe knowing they will be treated with mutual respect." Sounds to me that's exactly how that guy who flipped the bird was treated by the officer. In her own defense, the 14-year veteran  cop claimed she is not against black people and that this was "a mental episode" due to stress and overwork. In other words, she would rather be seen as mentally disturbed than as someone who says "nigger" in private.

I wonder, if you say "nigger" in the forest, does anyone hear it?