nigger

Nigger is an adapation of the spanish word "Negro" which means the color black. As many captains of slave ships were spanish sailors, the term negro became popular through-out the slave trade culture. This word has now evolved into a racial-slur against african americans.

However, nigger has also become an accepted term amongst the black population. This has derived as a form of fighting an injustice. The majority population had give themselves a derogatory name to call the minority. Black people have taken this name and, through using it with each other, have weakened the power that white people have over them with it. The same thing has happened in the holocaust with the Jewish people calling each other the horrible monikers made up by the SS and Nazi Propaganda machine.

"You're my nigger." What used to mean "I own you slave" now means "You and I are close friends."

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