There are some things that i cant understand in the world such as Bush, Iraq, or the k in knife, but the thing that really gets me is when the word nigga is used. Some people would say that the word doesn't mean the same thing anymore since we changed the ER to an a, but to those people i would have to respectfully disagree. In The novel named " the Autobiography of Malcolm X " Malcolm states: Malcolm X: ‘A hundred times a day, they used the word “nigger”….Thus they never did really see
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But where did the term nigga/nigger come from anyway? well, in about 1619 a Dutch soldier sold twenty Africans over to the English colony of James town, Virginia. It wasn't till 1661 that an actual reference for slavery was made. It also wasn't until the Slave Codes of 1705 that slavery finally became an entity of the United states. This slavery statues would go on till the end of The American civil war and the making of the 13th amendment in 1865. Now during this time when African Americans were in slavery we were given the derogatory name nigger. Where did this name come from? The origin of the term nigger is often compared to the Latin word Niger meaning Black. This Latin word was twisted into the noun in English Negro. In French the term was twisted some more to negre and negres or African woman. It is highly likely that the word nigger came from the mispronunciation of the word Negro. Despite its origins by the early 1800's it was a firm derogative word. Now in the 21st century it is still commonly used not only by white people as a racist slur, but by black people as well who are to ignorant to read this post. The term nigger carries around with it all the hate and disgust that white people had to wards black people. The word was a term of alienation and a verbal use for discrimination. There is no other racial slur that caries as much hate as this. Nigger whether spoken, written, or used in media, flashbacks the extent of anti-black prejudice. I'm done
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2420/Nigger_the_word_a_brief_history
http://www.civilwar.com/content/section/38/70/
