When we, as youth need quick information, we refer to our friend, Wikipedia. I wanted some background information about the word “nigger“.

What an eye-opener it was! Some things I learned was the word wasn’t always used to refer to black people and at some point it was the PC term for black people. It’s mind boggling to even think that the word was the PC term! The other thing I discovered that the word went as broad as to refer to anyone who is considered ‘less-than’. The Québécois referred to themselves to explain their situation in relation to French imperialism.

One thing that really bothers me is that this seems be an American-only issue. It seems no other country has this issue, or had this issue till America had it. Many countries adopted a derogatory word for black people after Americans (so proud to be an American -__-).

The phrase ‘the n-word’ was popularized after the OJ Simpson trial. Who knew this word’s history is still changing.There seems to be a giant difference between “nigger” and “nigga”. Something I just noticed is that the racist characters on The Boondocks don’t really use the -er variation.

The annoying thing about the word is that there aren’t clear lines and people get angry because someone else doesn’t see the lines they do.