Originally posted by Antonio Wright:Renee, the word is a racial term. So, the context in which it was used is correct. In regards to the word nigger. There is no concrete information on where the word originated from. Some people believe, that the word orginated from the country Niger, or the word means ignorant like you stated. The fact of the matter is now, it is used as a racist term to describe blacks and other minorities, particually the ones from the middle east.
I always thought it initially was dialectization of the word "negro". To swerve this WAAAAAY off topic, my mom once told me about her schoolteacher days in the 1960s in small-town Tennessee (so you can imagine what's coming), when some kid in her class called this little black girl a nigger. Mom said the girl turned around and said back "I ain't no nigger, I'm a NEEEE-GRA!" Which, if you look at it, is a feminized version of "negro", so...yeah.
But anyway.
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