Nigger

Nigger is a racist insult against Black people. It can also be referred to as the "hard R", due to the word ending in 'er' instead of 'a, like the word with a similar meaning - "nigga". Like the word "nigga", it can be used in pop culture slang. However, it is mainly used by those who believe that white people are better than everybody else.^[1]

The word did not from a slang pronunciation of "negro", which is the word for the colour black and black people in Spanish and Portuguese,^[2] but from the original [Latin] word "niger" (French "noire") simply meaning the colour "black"; hence the geographical state name "Nigeria" (see Google Maps). Before 1865, most black people in the United States were slaves forcibly transported from West Africa as a "trade". During this time, the mis-spelt word "nigger" usually meant a slave. Writers such as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain,^[3] and Charles Dickens used it.

Today, the word is used, or seen, by many as an offensive racial slur in English and, is often thought of as a part of hate speech. "Nigger" is too offensive to say so most people call it the "N-word" instead.

Related pages

Wigger

References

↑ Starkey, Brando Simeo (18 May 2017). "If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you'd NEVER use it". The Undefeated.
↑ Pilgrim, David (September 2001). "Nigger and Caricatures". Retrieved 2007-06-19.
↑ Twain, Mark (2004). Life on the Mississippi. Kessinger Publishing. p. 11, 13, 127, 139, 219. ISBN 978-1-4191-3041-0.

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[1] Starkey, Brando Simeo (18 May 2017). "If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you'd NEVER use it". The Undefeated.

[Pilgrim-2] Pilgrim, David (September 2001). "Nigger and Caricatures". Retrieved 2007-06-19.

[3] Twain, Mark (2004). Life on the Mississippi. Kessinger Publishing. p. 11, 13, 127, 139, 219. ISBN 978-1-4191-3041-0.

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