I jokingly referred to an older gentleman as "my nikka" and got checked with the quickness. I've pretty much eliminated it from my vocabulary. Minus an occasional "this nikka" muttered in the comfort of my home, usually about white people. Usually about Trump actually.
Old head did what he was supposed to by checking you, because white supremacy is gonna do way more than check your ass. But you saw where he was coming from so it is what it is.
I tell some of these younger heads a lot that they'd better prefer getting checked by an older head/family member instead of a judge/cop/wack hiring manager doing the checking.
shyt, if I saw and older black man checking a younger cat by tapping his jaw, I wouldn't do shyt. Getting checked that way is a hell of a lot better than getting your negro wake up call