Showing posts with label nigger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nigger. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

"Watch out Nigger"!!!

"Watch out Nigger"!!! Was the shout out a blue Toyota Camry as I was crossing the street on fifth Avenue in Mid-town Manhattan. The Caucasian driver of that car, blew the red light and proceeded to try make a right on 40th street.. Something told me that he was trying to get my attention, but I also knew that my name was not"Nigger".
My mind made a sharp turn and led me ask to myself why are we trying to abolish the N word.

In a society where young and old black men call each other out as "Nigga", it is hard for me to figure out the meaning of it.
When a White person refers to us as "Niggers", we get mad and ready to start a riot. If we call ourselves the "N word", we shouldn't at all be offended if someone from another race call us "Niggers", simple is that.
"Nigger" is not my name and do not get offended when some idiot who does know anything about call me that. Nigger, according to the dictionary is someone who is ignorant,

Word
Origin & History

"nigger"
"1786, earlier neger (1568, Scot. and northern England dialect), from Fr. nègre, from Sp. negro (see Negro). From the earliest usage it was "the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks" [cited in Gowers, 1965]. But as black inferiority was at one time a near universal assumption in Eng.-speaking lands, the word in some cases could be used without deliberate insult. More sympathetic writers late 18c. and early 19c. seem to have used black (n.) and, after the American Civil War, colored person. Also applied by Eng. settlers to dark-skinned native peoples in India, Australia, Polynesia. The reclamation of the word as a neutral or positive term in black culture, often with a suggestion of "soul" or "style," is attested first in the Amer. South, later (1968) in the Northern, urban-based Black Power movement. Variant niggah, attested from 1925 (without the -h, from 1969), is found usually in situations where blacks use the word. Nigra (1944), on the other hand, reflects a pronunciation in certain circles of Negro, but meant to suggest nigger, and is thus deemed (according to a 1960 slang dictionary) "even more derog. than 'nigger.' " Slang phrase nigger in the woodpile attested by 1800; "A mode of accounting for the disappearance of fuel; an unsolved mystery" [R.H. Thornton, "American Glossary," 1912]. Nigger heaven, "the top gallery in a (segregated) theater" first attested 1878 in ref. to Troy, N.Y."

(to be continued)