'The Meaning Of The N' Word
“Call everyone “nigga” and get a nigga mad. As soon as I say “nigga” then everyone reacts and wanna swing at me and call me racist ‘cause I ain’t black”. In the song I’m not racist by Joyner Lucas, it starts off with a white man, who is wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, rapping about the double standards of the “n” word. With words, they can have so much meaning behind. Where the word originated from, how the meaning can depend on the context it is used in, to who can say the word and how it has changed over time. Alongside that, the "n" word has so many layers to it. Going back to how it first came about to how it completely changed with time.
The “n”word originated from the Latin word niger, which means black. Niger then turned into a noun, Negro being a black person in English, and simply a color in Spanish. Starting as early as the 1800s, the “n”word was used as a derogatory word used by White Southern Americans to dehumanize the African slaves. The African American Registry examines the term and says, "It is probable that nigger is a phonetic spelling of the White Southern mispronunciation of Negro". Negro was just a way to identify Black people, but it then evolved into the “n” …show more content…
Nigga is a slang word. According to the Urban dictionary is " a word which evolved from the derogatory term 'nigger'". African American took the "n" word and started to use it as a term of endearment as said by David Lawrence, an American Culture professor at St.Thomas University. Black and African Americans now use it to address themselves as "friends" or "homies". The small change of changing the "er" to an "a" entirely changed to meaning of the word. If anything they are completely two different words. One is used as a racial slur, while the other is used as a term of
The “n”word originated from the Latin word niger, which means black. Niger then turned into a noun, Negro being a black person in English, and simply a color in Spanish. Starting as early as the 1800s, the “n”word was used as a derogatory word used by White Southern Americans to dehumanize the African slaves. The African American Registry examines the term and says, "It is probable that nigger is a phonetic spelling of the White Southern mispronunciation of Negro". Negro was just a way to identify Black people, but it then evolved into the “n” …show more content…
Nigga is a slang word. According to the Urban dictionary is " a word which evolved from the derogatory term 'nigger'". African American took the "n" word and started to use it as a term of endearment as said by David Lawrence, an American Culture professor at St.Thomas University. Black and African Americans now use it to address themselves as "friends" or "homies". The small change of changing the "er" to an "a" entirely changed to meaning of the word. If anything they are completely two different words. One is used as a racial slur, while the other is used as a term of