The Forbidden "N" Word.
There is a lot of hype about the “N” word. Well lets look at the origin of the word ‘Nigger’. First of all the word ‘Nigger’ is considered a racial slur referring to dark-skinned people, mainly people of Africal ancestry or African American people.
Negro is a Spanish word originating from the Latin word niger which means black. Now in the English language, the word negro or neger eventually became negar and finally the common slang word nigger. It is said that this is most likely named from French nègre which is also derived from the Latin word Niger.
In Colonial America, Neger (sometimes spelled "neggar") prevailed in northern New York under the Dutch and also in Philadelphia, in its Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities. For example, the African Burial Ground in New York City was originally known as "Begraaf Plaats van de Neger."
In the United States, the word nigger was not always considered derogatory, but was instead used by some as merely denotative of black, as it was in other parts of the English-speaking world. In nineteenth-century literature, there are many uses of the word nigger with no intended negative connotation. Charles Dickens, and Joseph Conrad (who published ‘The Nigger of the Narcissus' in 1897) used the word without racist intent. Mark Twain often put the word into the mouths of his Southern characters, white and black, but did not use the word when speaking in his own voice in his autobiographical Life on the Mississippi.
In the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world, the word was often used to refer to people of Pakistani or Indian descent, or merely to darker-skinned foreigners in general; in his 1926 Modern English Usage, H. W. Fowler observed that when the word was applied to "others than full or partial negroes," it was "felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity." The note was excised from later editions of the book.
In the 1800s, as nigger began to acquire the pejorative connotation it holds today, the term "Colored" gained popularity as a kinder alternative to negro and associated terms. For example, Abolitionists in Boston, Massachusettes posted warnings to "Colored People of Boston and vicinity." The name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reflects the preference for this term at the time of the NAACP's founding in 1909.
Southern dialect in many parts of the southern United States changes the pronunciation of "Negro" to "nigra" (used most famously by Lyndon B. johnson, a proponent of Civil Rights).
Black became the preferred term in English in the late 1960s, and this continues to the present day. In the United States this has been displaced to some extent by African American, at least in politically correct usage; this resembles the term Afro-American that was in vogue in the early 1970s. Nevertheless, black continues in widespread use as a racial designation in the United States and is rarely regarded as offensive.
Today the word is often spelled nigga or niggah, in imitation of the manner in which some pronounce it. (Less-common variants are nigguh or even nikuh.) Other variations, designed to avoid the term itself, include nookah, nukka, nagger and the much older "jigger."
Okay now that we have some background research done we can now look at the real issue. The use of the word. First since when do the black people own the right to be the only people to bitch about slang words or slurs being used against them? If you think that nobody else goes through this then guess again. I was born in German when my father was ferving for the NATO alliance. In school, I was beaten up, I had swastika’s drawn on my locker, I was called a kraut all the time, I was called a Jew Killer and so on. What about Italian’s being called whops. Korean’s, Chinese and it goes on and on.
If this is such a bad word then why are the Black people writing this word into the lyrics of their songs? Why is it followed by vciolence? How about, “nigger gonna pop a cap in yo ass”. What kind of garbage is this? This is nothing more then thinking of a savage mind. Do they have a right to use the ‘N’ word because they are black? They taught the world to use it, they need to live with it. Perhaps they can learn to be a human being and not a savage. After all America is supposed to be a civilized nation.
Negro is a Spanish word originating from the Latin word niger which means black. Now in the English language, the word negro or neger eventually became negar and finally the common slang word nigger. It is said that this is most likely named from French nègre which is also derived from the Latin word Niger.
In Colonial America, Neger (sometimes spelled "neggar") prevailed in northern New York under the Dutch and also in Philadelphia, in its Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities. For example, the African Burial Ground in New York City was originally known as "Begraaf Plaats van de Neger."
In the United States, the word nigger was not always considered derogatory, but was instead used by some as merely denotative of black, as it was in other parts of the English-speaking world. In nineteenth-century literature, there are many uses of the word nigger with no intended negative connotation. Charles Dickens, and Joseph Conrad (who published ‘The Nigger of the Narcissus' in 1897) used the word without racist intent. Mark Twain often put the word into the mouths of his Southern characters, white and black, but did not use the word when speaking in his own voice in his autobiographical Life on the Mississippi.
In the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world, the word was often used to refer to people of Pakistani or Indian descent, or merely to darker-skinned foreigners in general; in his 1926 Modern English Usage, H. W. Fowler observed that when the word was applied to "others than full or partial negroes," it was "felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity." The note was excised from later editions of the book.
In the 1800s, as nigger began to acquire the pejorative connotation it holds today, the term "Colored" gained popularity as a kinder alternative to negro and associated terms. For example, Abolitionists in Boston, Massachusettes posted warnings to "Colored People of Boston and vicinity." The name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reflects the preference for this term at the time of the NAACP's founding in 1909.
Southern dialect in many parts of the southern United States changes the pronunciation of "Negro" to "nigra" (used most famously by Lyndon B. johnson, a proponent of Civil Rights).
Black became the preferred term in English in the late 1960s, and this continues to the present day. In the United States this has been displaced to some extent by African American, at least in politically correct usage; this resembles the term Afro-American that was in vogue in the early 1970s. Nevertheless, black continues in widespread use as a racial designation in the United States and is rarely regarded as offensive.
Today the word is often spelled nigga or niggah, in imitation of the manner in which some pronounce it. (Less-common variants are nigguh or even nikuh.) Other variations, designed to avoid the term itself, include nookah, nukka, nagger and the much older "jigger."
Okay now that we have some background research done we can now look at the real issue. The use of the word. First since when do the black people own the right to be the only people to bitch about slang words or slurs being used against them? If you think that nobody else goes through this then guess again. I was born in German when my father was ferving for the NATO alliance. In school, I was beaten up, I had swastika’s drawn on my locker, I was called a kraut all the time, I was called a Jew Killer and so on. What about Italian’s being called whops. Korean’s, Chinese and it goes on and on.
If this is such a bad word then why are the Black people writing this word into the lyrics of their songs? Why is it followed by vciolence? How about, “nigger gonna pop a cap in yo ass”. What kind of garbage is this? This is nothing more then thinking of a savage mind. Do they have a right to use the ‘N’ word because they are black? They taught the world to use it, they need to live with it. Perhaps they can learn to be a human being and not a savage. After all America is supposed to be a civilized nation.
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