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No pundit has ever written about the origins of the 'N word. Think about it. Its born out of the abysmal ignorance of an almost illiterate society when you think about it. There is a river in Africa called the Niger. There is a country in Africa called Nigeria on the coastline that colonial ships could reach. The Niger river empties out into the Gulf of Guinea.
So "Where'd you get that slave?" "I got him from the N' word River" "Oh he's an N'word." Really ignorant pathetic white history. I would tell me son to tell bullies that Niger rhymes with Tiger and that's what you'll get if you call me anything but 'Sir'.
What do I tell my black child if Barack Obama, America's first black president, loses his bid for re-election? This is a question many parents are asking themselves -- especially those who would blame the loss on racism.
Jubilant black parents on the front pages of newspapers, the day after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, said things like, "for the first time" they could "sincerely" say to their children that a black person could realistically aspire to become president of the United States.
The New York Times wrote: "That a new day had dawned was immediately...
Many of the slave ships were Dutch, another Germanic language. It is conceiveable that a word like 'ni*ger' was heard frequently among slavers ... and they weren't all illiterate.
I'd say that wade78 is not cut out to be our histroian, nor our language expert.