Teacher: Nigeria means NIGGER AREA. Spell it.
Teacher: Nigeria means NIGGER AREA. Spell it.
Student: I-T.
Teacher: River Niger means NIGGER river. Spell it.
Student: I-T.
The people were smart enough
To change the colonial name
From Gold Coast to Ghana
When they became independent.
Is it not shameful
As a Nigerian
To know that the name of your country
Means Nigger Area,
Yet you have to look the immigration officer in Europe and America
In the eye,
As they look knowingly at you
Realizing that they understand you are answering
To being called a person from Nigger Area
And you don’t seem to understand that
Or you just don’t care
About your identity?
Teacher: Spell it.
Student: I-T.
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Etymology and history
Main article: Negro
The variants neger and negar derive from various Mediterranean language words for “black”, including the Spanish and Portuguese word negro (black) and the now-pejorative French nègre. Etymologically, negro, noir, nègre, and nigger ultimately derive from nigrum, the stem of the Latin niger (black) (pronounced [ˈniɡer] which, in every other grammatical case, grammatical gender, and grammatical number besides nominative masculine singular, is nigr- followed by a case ending, the r is trilled).
In the English language, the word nigger is an ethnic slur typically directed at black people. The word originated in the 18th century as an adaptation of the Spanish negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, which means black.[1] It was used derogatorily, and by the mid-20th century, particularly in the United States, its usage became unambiguously pejorative, a racist insult. Accordingly, it began to disappear from popular culture, and its continued inclusion in classic works of literature has sparked controversy. Because the term is considered extremely offensive, it is often referred to by the euphemism “the N-word”.
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