Oscarus

Is using the "N-word" in writing racist when you don't have the pass? 

Maybe I'll need to expand: by that I mean having some character use "n-word" to other. Theorically you're not the one to use or speak it, but you're writing it. But you're not writing it to real-life person in a real life, but have some fictional character say it to other fictional character. Is that still considered racist? 

Well, if the character saying it isn't black-skinned, then that one is racist, but does that make me - the writer - racist? 

Why am I asking it...? 

Maybe because I don't want to cause controversy while writing. Obviously, I haven't intended to overuse it, but I still wish to know.