A white woman who dropped a racial slur during an argument with a group of Black women in a North Carolina restaurant said she doesn't regret her choice of words.

The woman, Nancy Goodman, got upset because she thought a group of Black women dining at a Bonefish Grill in Raleigh, North Carolina, were too loud, according to The News & Observer.

Goodman allegedly told the women they were the “rudest people she’s ever met,” Chanda Stewart, one of the Black women, shared in a Facebook post. Stewart filmed part of the encounter.

"I've got real good friends who are Black, and I love them," Goodman told Stewart and her friends during the confrontation.

"We never said anything about color," Stewart replied.

"You're too loud," Goodman argued.

"In your opinion," Lakesha Shaw, one of Stewart’s friends, answers. "Let me show you my money. It's just as green as yours."

The money comment seemed to really grind Goodman's gears.

"Why are you so stupid n****r?" she said.

The women asked if she used the term around her Black friends but Goodman insisted “they're not like you."

Stewart posted the video on her Facebook page and expressed her disappointment. It has been shared more than 3,000 times.

“What was supposed to be dinner with my girlfriends ended up in us being called stupid n****rs,” Stewart wrote. “The climate of the country today has some people thinking whatever they feel….they can say. The reality is if we were to retaliate with this same kind of hate and ignorance we would be called ‘angry black women.’”

In hindsight, Goodman said she wished she would have spoken to the restaurant’s management.

"Looking back on it now, I wish I would have asked the waiter to ask management if they would just quiet down," she told WRAL. "Instead, I went off on them, which I shouldn’t have done. But I had had it. It was out of my control to calm down my anxiety."

But she doesn’t regret using the slur.

"I’m not going to say I’m sorry to them because they kept pushing at it," Goodman continued. "I would say it again to them. They are the rudest individuals I have ever seen."

Goodman insists she isn’t racist and again, mentioned that she has Black friends.

"I have many Black friends, and I have never encountered three people that ugly in a bar," she said. "I wish those women well, and maybe there’s a lesson learned for them, too, that you don’t disrespect an elderly person."

Shaw doesn’t believe her.

"The fact that you’re willing to say you will repeat that again shows me the hate that you harbor in your heart for the Black African-American race," she said. "I don’t care what color I am. Give me the respect of being a human being, just like everyone else deserves."

Elizabeth Watts, a spokeswoman for Bloomin' Brands Inc, the restaurant’s parent company, said the incident is under investigation.

"We are a place for all people to gather for good food in a comfortable atmosphere, including positive interactions among guests. We do not tolerate hate speech or disrespect in our restaurants," she said in a statement. "We are reviewing the incident to see how we can do better at de-escalating something like this in the future."

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