BLACK as an insult; Calling a white person a nigger was no more offensive in reference to laziness as it was in reference to being "a negro"
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Replying to @AliahLuck
In fact, "nigger" was used adjectively in reference to Darkness. You had "brown", & then you had "nigger-brown", "nigger-black", etc.
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Replying to @AliahLuck
Here's a list of other adjectival uses for the word:pic.twitter.com/AJZH8Hd0QP
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Replying to @AliahLuck
You guys, we even had nursery rhymes & children's books sung to our demize.pic.twitter.com/We5IzG4aon
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Replying to @AliahLuck
How did it become a word used by black people then? Well Trevor, I'm glad you asked.
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Replying to @AliahLuck
Since Nigger already meant black, Nigger could have meant a variety of insults between black people,
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Replying to @AliahLuck
From laziness, to worthlessness (as in Imamu Amiri Baraka's poem "I Don't Love You"),
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Replying to @AliahLuck
To what people today would refer to as "coonery" or being in the "sunken place".
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Replying to @AliahLuck
The N-word used intra-racially at most was to say "They (whites/masa) were right about you."
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Replying to @AliahLuck
How did it become such a "light-hearted" and commonly used term then? *Brace yourselves fellow Linguistics nerds* DIMMINUTIVE AFFIXES
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My reaction to diminutive affixes:pic.twitter.com/oegFDlwQvr
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