Our society has been all "swoll" in the chest about the usage of the word NIGGER, more now, then before the Emancipation Proclamation, or even the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. This verbal mental afflicting genocide has scarred the African American Community. I had to sit down and really ask myself... WHO and What is a nigger? Now we can justify all day that a nigger is someone who is ignorant and uneducated, and yes, that could mean anyone, but I wanted to know the origin of it.  I wanted to know that John Rolfe was the first American to verbalize it. I wanted to know who gave US that name? Was it really white America, and who made US this so called name NIGGER?

The word NIGGER was not originally used for racism. It was a term for the color "black" in many languages. In Latin the word niger, means black. The Latin niger became the noun, negro, in English, Spanish and Portuguese. In French niger became negre and in earlier English optional terms such as negar, neegar, neger, and niggor were also used. 

Now... I...ain't never seen a black...black man or a white...white man...but you know. That's neither here nor there. But in the early 1800s, the word NIGGER was securely established as a tactless soubriquet to address black men, women, and children. It is likely that nigger is a phonetic spelling of the white southern way of pronouncing Negro, which later gave the usage of the word a sly and derogatory way of implying that blacks possess the moral, intellectual, social, and physical characteristics of a lazy childlike, physically unattractive man or woman.

So, did they just imply that WE are ugly and retarded? Think about that...NIGGER!

Anyway,

NIGGER, is and was a simple verbal justification of discrimination and what was spoken into existence gave birth to caricatures and books and novels and wait...the oh so controversial rap music.

"You dig my nigga?, what's up my nigga?, nigga please!" What a term of endearment that is, right? But our community has been spitting this for years and even after we put the word to rest, you can still hear people yell out, MY NIGGAZ!

Tupac Shakur did an interview with MTV once and said...Nigger is a black man with a rope around his neck hanging from a tree and Nigga is a black man with a gold rope hanging around his neck walking down the street. 

NIGGER is expression of white racism regardless of the way it is pronounced. Whether you are a NIGGA or NIGGER you are continuing to get choked by a rope, which means, you are cutting off the circulation of your progress.

What we call ourselves are short forms of affirmations and you are what you speak you are. Now, I do believe that, we make words mean what we want, but this word has more history than the origin itself.  When you look in the mirror do you see a NIGGER? We have been so mentally institutionalized that we continue to repeat our behavior after we have been exonerated of our "crime" of being black. Yes it is just a word, but if you are going to use it...know the history behind it, the pain...and stop getting mad when you hear white America call you what you have deemed okay to say, because of the watered down emotional past that the present generation has given it.

I will leave you with this short story written by Agatha Christie, in 1939, entitled Ten Little Niggers.

Ten Little Nigger Boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self, and then there were Nine.;
Nine Little Nigger Boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself, and then there were Eight.
Eight Little Nigger Boys traveling in Devon

One said he'd stay there, and then there were Seven.
Seven Little Nigger Boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves, and then there were Six.
Six Little Nigger Boys playing with a hive;
A Bumble-Bee stung one, and then there were Five.
Five Little Nigger Boys going in for Law;
One got in Chancery, and then there were Four.
Four Little Nigger Boys going out to Sea;
A Red Herring swallowed one, and then there were Three.
Three Little Nigger Boys walking in the Zoo;
The big Bear hugged one, and then there were Two;
Two Little Nigger Boys sitting in the Sun;
One got frizzled up, and then there was One.
One Little Nigger Boy living all alone;
He got married, and then there were None.a

Contact me at Lorie@isispages.com

Photos and some information on the word Nigger was taken from  http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/caricature/