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Originally Posted by Boreas
Where did you come up with an idea like that?
The "N word" is a reference to skin color. The polite term used to be Negro which is the Spanish word for black. The "N word" may be a corruption of that or perhaps a corruption of the French word for black, negre. (The pronunciation of negre is closer.)
I don't really know or care at what point in the history of the word it came to be thought of and began to be used offensively. The only thing I care about id that it is so considered and so used now and the people who use it succeed in labeling themselves more than they insult the target.
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See here,
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_e...-brief-history
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