Really, people are actually trying to break down my nickname?
Take it for what I say it is... and take my origin for what I say it is... parents from southern Nigeria in Delta State.
The first part of my name is taken from the NIGER RIVER, not the N-word. No code, no hidden language, no trying to get one over anybody. If I really wanted to use the N-word I would have done it, period.
This is not to say that I did not take into account that people would make the inference that I meant "nigger" and
not "Niger". But that in itself would be a starting point to talk about the origin of the N-word.
The N-word originates from the Portuguese and Spanish word for black: negro or negra.
This was the terminology used for black slaves in Europe and the Americas as the Portuguese were the first to start the Sub-Saharan Transatlantic slave trade. There was also a French cognate of black- negre.
Niger and Nigeria are not derived from negro, its not.
I'm probably going to change my nickname if for no other reason than to have people focus on the topics I write on than comment on the taboo of a nickname most will pigeonhole into what it was never meant to be.
Sorry, the nickname is no new slang, and focus on the post.
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nigerachy1 on
01/03/2009 05:43:57 PM EST
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